Blue Moon
I found a certain similarity between 2025's BLUE MOON and 2008's ME AND ORSON WELLES , both directed by Richard Linklater. Namely in their final moments, when the terrible reality of show business bares its fangs. Both films are loving remembrances of simpler, yet certainly not gentler eras. BLUE MOON is an examination of lyricist Lorenz Hart, who for several years teamed with composer Richard Rodgers. Toasts of Broadway behind such hits as Pal Joey and Babes in Arms . You may not be familiar with Hart, certainly not as much as with Rodgers' later collaborator, Oscar Hammerstein II. From the moment we see Lorenz Hart, played with great investment by Ethan Hawke, said realities are painfully transparent. He's severely inebriated, stumbling in the rain. Onscreen titles tell us he would pass away later that evening. Cut to several months earlier, March 31st, 1943. Oklahoma!, penned by Rodgers and Hammerstein, debuts a...
