Blue Moon
Now available on Netflix & Amazon Prime
Nominated for Best Original Screenplay
at the 98th Academy Awards
2025 Winner Best Original Screenplay
Boston Society of Film Critics
A 2025 American biographical musical drama film directed by Richard Linklater and written by Robert Kaplow. The film is a biopic of the later days of songwriter Lorenz Hart. It stars Ethan Hawke as Hart, alongside Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott.
The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, on 18 February 2025, where it won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance for Andrew Scott.
Blue Moon Reviews
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The New Yorker
Blue Moon Extras
Official Trailer for BLUE MOON Fall 2025 Release
BLUE MOON Facebook page
“Metuchen writer Robert Kaplow pens screenplay for biopic on Lorenz Hart”
“For nearly 20 years the Metuchen writer Robert Kaplow was known to public radio listeners as the manic Moe Moskowitz”
Interview with Terry Gross: ‘I love living inside a project for a long time,’ says Richard Linklater
The Brooklyn Rail
Q&A at the New York Film Festival
“That sentence is the reason that I’m here.”
Morning Edition
Robert on WBAI-FM
Bing Crosby sings Rodgers and Hart’s “It’s Easy to Remember” (1935)
New York Times: “I Finally Solved My Ethan Hawke Problem”
A Companion to ‘Blue Moon’ (Featuring Robert Kaplow)
How a Jewish schoolteacher from New Jersey made it to Hollywood and Broadway at the same time
Ethan Hawke on WNYC’s “All of It”
Blue Moon Trailer
Academy Award Nomination
Blue Moon Telluride Film Festival Q&A with Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott and Richard Linklater

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Me And Orson Welles: The Film
“One of the best films I have ever seen about the theater.”
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times
“One of the year’s ten best.”
—David Denby, The New Yorker (Read more)
“Art is a fairy tale we choose to believe in, and this movie, a fiction confected about real people, is too good not to be true.”
—A.O. Scott, The New York Times (Read more)
Read more reviews:
Terry Teachout, Wall Street Journal
Philip French, The Guardian/Observer
Ten Best Films of 2009, The New Yorker
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
Film Trailer
Review by Mark Kermode










