{"id":45705,"date":"2025-07-29T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45705\/"},"modified":"2025-07-29T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T18:47:10","slug":"ethan-hawke-richard-linklater-reunite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/45705\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethan Hawke, Richard Linklater Reunite"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Linklater<\/a> and Ethan Hawke<\/a> are up there with Martin Scorsese and De Niro, even Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart, as one of cinema\u2019s iconic perennial pairings. From the \u201cBefore\u201d films and \u201cWaking Life\u201d to \u201cBoyhood\u201d (which earned Hawke an Oscar nomination) and even the underseen motel-room-only DV thriller \u201cTape,\u201d they\u2019re operating on an alchemy rare for onscreen director-actor collaborators.<\/p>\n

Their latest project together is \u201cBlue Moon<\/a>,\u201d which may distract at first for the bald cap Hawke wears to play desperate, boozing songwriter Lorenz Hart. But underneath that feat of movie makeup magic is one of Hawke\u2019s most wistful, poignant performances, here as the great American lyricist who was one half of Rodgers and Hart before a creative split.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBlue Moon<\/a>\u201d is set over the course of one night, in the iconic New York bar Sardi\u2019s, at the after-party for the 1943 premiere of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein\u2019s stage musical \u201cOklahoma!\u201d Hart\u2019s personal and professional lives dovetail and unravel as jealousy seethes over his former creative partner\u2019s success, his own sexuality gets a bit wobbly, and he bonds with a bright-spirited prot\u00e9g\u00e9 (Margaret Qualley, who plays her character like a sad starlet of the Jazz Age). The cast includes Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Simon Delaney as Oscar Hammerstein, Cillian Sullivan as Stephen Sondheim, and Bobby Cannavale as the charming barkeep trying not to serve Lorenz too much, or at all.<\/p>\n

Sony Pictures Classics opens the film<\/a> in New York and Los Angeles on October 17, with more locations to follow on October 24. \u201cBlue Moon\u201d first premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival, where Scott won the supporting actor Silver Bear for his performance as Rodgers. <\/p>\n

Read IndieWire\u2019s \u201cBlue Moon\u201d review here<\/a>. The film has yet to show up on any fall festival lineups, but we\u2019re betting it shows up in Telluride to help launch the awards runs for Hawke and Scott. Robert Kaplow, who wrote the book that inspired Linklater\u2019s biopic \u201cMe and Orson Welles,\u201d wrote the script.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou prepare for a part like this by playing Macbeth,\u201d Hawke said at the Berlin Film Festival press conference<\/a>. \u201cWhat Robert Kaplow wrote for us, this absolutely beautiful script, that if done right is basically a film that\u2019s one scene\u2026 I could say I prepared by shaving my head or preparing Lorenz Hart songs. That\u2019s not really true. It\u2019s a long time figuring out how to stage scenes and how to make a seven- or 11-page scene dynamic enough for you to watch it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer below.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke are up there with Martin Scorsese and De Niro, even Alfred Hitchcock and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[19339,88,36127,2695,206,36128,9552],"class_list":{"0":"post-45705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-blue-moon","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ethan-hawke","11":"tag-film","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-richard-linklater","14":"tag-trailers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}