Richard Linklater premiered two films on festival circuit this year — “Nouvelle Vague” at Cannes and “Blue Moon” at Berlin, with the latter now having a trailer to its name.
Reviews for “Blue Moon” have been positive. The film sits at 96% on RT. It’s set for October 17, 2025 theatrical release via Sony Pictures Classics. Hawke has been getting very good ink for his performance as well, and he’s almost unrecognizable with his Costanza-like horseshoe hair-do.
“Blue Moon” is said to tackle the songwriting team of Rodgers & Hart. The film is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of their musical “Oklahoma!”, which marked Rodgers’s first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.
“Blue Moon,” Stars Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Andrew Scott and Bobby Cannavale. Robert Kaplow, who co-wrote Linklater’s underrated “Me and Orson Welles,” penned the screenplay.
Linklater and Hawke have been wanting to make this film for well over 10 years. In fact, the script was ready over a decade ago, but Linklater wanted for Hawke to age into the role (“you got to have more lines in your face”) before there was any interest to shoot it.
Any year that has Linklater releasing two films is worth celebrating. “Nouvelle Vague,” which I saw at Cannes, was another wonderful addition to a filmography that includes “Dazed and Confused,” “Waking Life,” “The School of Rock,” “Boyhood,” and the ‘Before’ trilogy.
