Richard Linklater’s Netflix feature “Blue Moon” is a study in failed dreams and lifelong regret, Dan Webster says.
Lorenz Hart isn’t the most obvious subject for a biopic. What a lyricist does, even one as gifted as Hart, is heard rather than seen. Nor was his life a happy one. Hart was painfully short (“Five foot ...
Few know the name of Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) today, but along with his musical partner Richard Rodgers, they were the most famous Broadway songwriting duo in the first half of the twentieth century.
Performance Worth Watching: Hawke’s work here is absolutely acrobatic, conveying a dozen conflicting emotions in single ...
Linklater returns to "Me and Orson Welles" mode for a small but razor-sharp biopic about Richard Rodgers' pre-"Oklahoma!" collaborator Lorenz Hart. In Richard Linklater’s “Before Sunrise,” Julie Delpy ...
Richard Linklater’s wistful “Blue Moon” is a tiny story about enormous heartbreak, with an artist at its center all too aware that the spotlight has passed him by. Lorenz “Larry” Hart (Ethan Hawke, ...
This post was updated Oct. 26 at 9:12 p.m. Warning: Spoilers ahead. Like the song from which it derives its title, “Blue Moon” is a short but memorable tale. The new film from Oscar-nominated director ...
Ethan Hawke plays the legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart on a wistful one-night quest to save his soul. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, ...
Running time: 100 minutes. Rated R (language and sexual references). In theaters. If when you hear the words “Pal Joey,” you think fondly of your friend Joseph, Richard Linklater’s new film “Blue Moon ...
Blue Moon star Ethan Hawke thought of his latest collaboration with director Richard Linklater as a different version of John Lennon and Paul McCartney. “The day they’re breaking up, only one of ...