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El título supone la novena colaboración entre director y actor. © Sony Pictures

Sony Pictures Classics ha desvelado el primer tráiler de la película Blue Moon, del aclamado cineasta Richard Linklater (Hit Man).

Firmada por Robert Kaplow, autor de la novela Me and Orson Welles, Blue Moon se adentra en los últimos días de Lorenz Hart, célebre mitad del dúo Rodgers & Hart. La historia transcurre principalmente en el emblemático restaurante Sardi’s, durante la noche del 31 de marzo de 1943, fecha en la que se estrenó ¡Oklahoma!, musical que marcó el comienzo de la alianza entre Rodgers y Oscar Hammerstein II tras la salida de Hart.

La película reúne a un reparto de lujo, con Ethan Hawke al frente, acompañado de Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale y Andrew Scott.

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Sony Pictures has revealed a new trailer for filmmaker Richard Linklater’s new feature ‘Blue Moon.’

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

Directed by Linklater, the movie stars Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Delaney, Patrick Kennedy, Jonah Lees and Cillian Sullivan.

Also in trailers – Paramount unveils first look at Colleen Hoover’s ‘Regretting You’

The movie hits UK cinemas on November 14th.

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Toronto International Film Festival announced the lineup for its Centerpiece program on Tuesday, spotlighting 55 total films from nearly 50 countries. “Blue Moon” from director Richard Linklater, a collaboration between the U.S. and Ireland, will have its North American premiere in the largely international section of the festival.

Of the 55 films screening in the Centerpiece program, 51 represent countries outside of the U.S. Some are collaborations with the U.S., while most are entirely international productions. Likewise, only six films are sole productions of Canada, with one co-production between Canada and Hungary.

18 of the films present in the section will have their world premieres at TIFF. These include “Good Boy,” starring Stephen Graham and Andrea Riseborough; Samara Weaving and Kyle Gallner “Carolina Caroline,” from director Adam Carter Rehmeier, who previously made “Dinner in America” and “Snack Shack”; and “Wasteman,” the debut feature from Cal McMau starring David Jonsson from “Alien: Romulus” and “Industry.

The Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday unveiled 55 new film titles for its global-film focused Centerpiece program, including titles from Richard Linklater, Christian Petzold, Anders Thomas Jensen, Pietro Marcello and Álvaro Olmos Torrico.

There’s world premieres for the “Brat” singer Charli xcx-starrer Erupcja from director Peter Ohs; the Stephen Graham, Andrea Riseborough and Anson Boon starring thriller Good Boy, from director Jan Komasa and co-producer Jeremy Thomas; Adam Carter Rehmeier’s romantic crime thriller Carolina Caroline, starring Samara Weaving; and Kirk Jones’ Tourette Syndrome drama I Swear, which stars Robert Aramayo as John Davidson, the trailblazing campaigner.

The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo. Courtesy of Cannes Film Festival

There’s also first looks for Gail Maurice’s indigenous drama Blood Lines, where the director stars alongside Tamara Podemski, Dana Solomon and Melanie Bray; Nomad Shadow, Eimi Imanishi’s debut feature about a refugee to Europe forced to return to Western Sahara; The Cost of Heaven,...

Sony Pictures Classics has launched the first trailer for filmmaker Richard Linklater’s new feature ‘Blue Moon.’

On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical “Oklahoma!”.

Directed by Linklater, the movie stars Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Delaney, Patrick Kennedy, Jonah Lees and Cillian Sullivan.

Also in trailers – Teaser trailer drops for ‘Train Dreams’

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Rise and shine, BroadwayWorld! It is July 30, 2025 and it's time to catch up on all of the theatrical happenings you may have missed in the last 24 hours: New - Bww For You, Personalized Story Picks, Click Here Good morning, Broadway fans! Welcome to your Wednesday edition of Wake Up with BroadwayWorld, your daily catch-up on all things theatre. This morning, we’ve got casting news for some exciting revivals and world premieres, a fresh look at the latest Broadway grosses, and a spotlight on new plays empowering women. Get a sneak peek inside rehearsals for Disney’s Hercules at sea, see production photos from Dear Evan Hansen at The Muny, and check out our “Must Watch” videos—including Ethan Hawke’s turn as Lorenz Hart in Blue...

Over the last thirty years, Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke have cemented their status as one of cinema's all-time great director-star duos with their work on movies like the Before trilogy, Boyhood, Tape, and Waking Life. Their latest team-up, Blue Moon, finds Linklater and Hawke turning the clocks back to the evening of 31 March, 1943 for a historical chamber piece centred around feted lyricist Lorenz Hart (a bald-cap sporting Hawke) and the drama that unfolds at the afterparty of his former collaborator Richard Rodgers' (Andrew Scott) new show, Oklahoma! Check out the trailer below;

"We write together for a quarter of a century and the first show he writes with someone else is gonna be the biggest hit he ever had," bemoans Hawke's Hart to Bobby Cannavale's Sardi barman at the start of this slick first Blue Moon trailer. "Am I bitter? Yes!" As tone-setters go, played out against a sprightly,...

“Blue Moon” is a new biographical period drama, directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Simon Delaney, Cillian Sullivan, Patrick Kennedy and John Doran, releasing October 24, 2025 in theaters:

“…on the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist ‘Lorenz Hart’ confronts his shattered self-confidence in ‘Sardi’s Bar’ as his former collaborator ‘Richard Rodgers’ celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical ‘Oklahoma!’.

“By the time this night is over, Hart will have confronted both a world that no longer values his talent and the seeming impossibility of love.”

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In the official trailer for Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke) is killing the vibe. The famed lyricist is settled at the bar in the Broadway staple restaurant Sardi’s, following his sorrows to the bottom of a bottle as he watches his former collaborator Richard Rodgers (Andrew Scott) celebrate.

Rodgers and Hart were once a great duo, creating American songbook classics “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered,” “My Funny Valentine,” “Falling in Love With Love,” and more together in the early years of their partnership. But this was...

Sony Pictures Classics has debuted the first trailer for Blue Moon, its songwriter drama marking the ninth collaboration between filmmaker Richard Linklater and actor Ethan Hawke, which is slated to hit theaters in Los Angeles and New York on October 17, before expanding nationwide on October 24.

Written by Robert Kaplow, author of the novel Me and Orson Welles — which inspired the Linklater film of the same name — Blue Moon profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart (Hawke), part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart. The film is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, which marked Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement.

Also starring Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra) and Andrew Scott (Ripley), the film premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, where Scott won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance, for his turn as Rodgers.

The first official trailer has arrived for Blue Moon, the new biographical portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart. The movie, which stars Ethan Hawke as the renowned lyricist, will be released in theaters on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles and New York, before expanding nationwide on October 24, 2025. The movie is directed by Richard Linklater from a script by Robert Kaplow. Watch the trailer and check out the poster below. The movie profiles the final days of Lorenz Hart, part of the hit songwriting team Rodgers & Hart, and is set primarily in Sardi’s Restaurant on March 31, 1943, the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II as Hart’s replacement. In the trailer, viewers can see the weight of Rodgers'...

Blue Moon will mark the ninth collaboration between Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke. Starting with Before Sunrise, the pair worked together on The Newton Boys, Waking Life, Tape, Before Sunset, Fast Food Nation, Before Midnight, and Boyhood. Sony Pictures Classics has now unveiled the trailer for Blue Moon. In addition to Hawke, the film will also feature Margaret Qualley (The Substance), Bobby Cannavale (Ezra), and Andrew Scott (Ripley). Sony Pictures Classics had acquired the worldwide rights for the project, which has been scripted by Robert Kaplow.

The official synopsis reads,

“…You know how in marriage they say “for better or for worse”? I think, in terms of my life, I have entered the “for worse” part, and it happened so quietly I didn’t even recognize it.

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon tells the story of legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart bravely facing the future as his professional and private life...

"Everybody's in love with her..." Sony Pictures Classics has revealed the main trailer for Richard Linklater's new film Blue Moon, one of two brand new Linklater movies from this year. Blue Moon first premiered at the 2025 Berlin Film Festival (aka Berlinale) earlier in the year, while his French take on Jean-Luc Godard titled Nouvelle Vague premiered at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival a few months ago. Blue Moon is out first - in theaters starting in October this fall. On the evening of March 31st, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in the famous Sardi's bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical "Oklahoma!" on Broadway. This very talky film takes place entirely in this bar over the course of one drunken evening. The film stars Ethan Hawke as Lorenz, Andrew Scott as Richard Rodgers, Margaret Qualley as Elizabeth Weiland,...

Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke are up there with Martin Scorsese and De Niro, even Alfred Hitchcock and James Stewart, as one of cinema’s iconic perennial pairings. From the “Before” films and “Waking Life” to “Boyhood” (which earned Hawke an Oscar nomination) and even the underseen motel-room-only Dv thriller “Tape,” they’re operating on an alchemy rare for onscreen director-actor collaborators.

Their latest project together is “Blue Moon,” 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’s most wistful, poignant performances, here as the great American lyricist who was one half of Rodgers and Hart before a creative split.

“Blue Moon” is set over the course of one night, in the iconic New York bar Sardi’s, at the after-party for the 1943 premiere of Richard Rodgers and...

After teaming up with Glen Powell and Adria Arjona last year for Hit Man, the next film from director Richard Linklater just got a thrilling new look. Sony Pictures has released the first official trailer for Blue Moon, the upcoming historical biopic starring Ethan Hawke and Margaret Qualley. The film tells the story of lyricist Lorenz Hart, who pushes headstrong into the future despite the unraveling of his personal and professional life. In addition to Hawke and Qualley, Blue Moon also stars Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott, and the film will open in LA and NY on October 17 before premiering nationwide the following week on August 24. Hawke and Linklater previously worked together on Before Sunrise, the 1995 romantic comedy that’s not currently streaming anywhere.

Robert Kaplow wrote the script for Blue Moon. The stars of the film have been extremely busy of late, especially Margaret Qualley, who can briefly be...

So much hay was made of Richard Linklater’s Cannes-premiering Nouvelle Vague that you’re liable to forget, just three months prior, his debuting Blue Moon at the Berlinale. Sony Pictures Classics will begin its theatrical release (already putting it one step above the Godard biopic’s Netflix deal) October 17, ahead of which is a trailer featuring Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Silver Bear winner Andrew Scott.

As David Katz said in his review, “Blue Moon, which world-premiered at the Berlinale, is another beautifully personal work from Linklater, full of authorial idiosyncrasies and tics, but distinguishing the film from his corpus is it being the kind you can only make at a mature career stage. It’s not so much that Linklater has nothing to prove––screenplays like Robert Kaplow’s and its rarified, remote milieu of mid-wwii New York theaterland can typically send financiers balking. With a ‘legacy’ career,...

When Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies and videotape took the Palme d’Or at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival, it signaled that the gates had officially been kicked in. Here was a movie made for just over $1 million that seemed more fitting for Sundance (where it also won). But it was just the sort of reckoning that other indie minds needed. Enter Richard Linklater and Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez and on and on, who helped change the face of cinema with independent film – for a little while, anyway.

Richard Linklater – whose debut, Slacker, was made for just $23,000 – is currently at the Cannes Film Festival himself. And it’s there that he wondered just where the independent film has gone and what it means for another moment for the scene. “It still happens, but the mainstream doesn’t fully embrace or acknowledge it, and I think that’s why it’s gone now.

Wes Anderson, who shot his fourth Cannes premiere, The Phoenician Scheme, at Studio Babelsberg in Germany, was called to the carpet in the press room about his thoughts on President Donald Trump’s suggested tariffs on film and TV imports.

“Tariffs are fascinating. I’ve never heard of a 100% tariff before,” the Oscar winner said. “I feel that means he’s saying he’s going to take all the money, and then what do we get? It’s complicated to me. Does that mean you can hold up the movie in customs?

“I want to know the details,” deadpanned Anderson, “I will hold off on my official answers.”

#ThePhoenicianScheme director Wes Anderson on US President Donald Trump’s 100% film tariffs: “Can you hold up a movie in customs? It doesn’t ship that way. I want to know more details” #Cannes2025 pic.twitter.com/iRXWEgROai

— Deadline (@Deadline) May 19, 2025

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Make Me Lose My Breath: Linklater Meddles in Manicured Homage

It’s unclear what the exact purpose of Nouvelle Vague is meant to serve, other than paying irreverent homage to Jean-Luc Godard and the making of his iconic debut feature, “ Breathless,” (1960). But a deference to both the filmmaker and this lionized period of filmmaking doesn’t always feel enough to justify Richard Linklater’s studious reimagining of a twenty-day guerrilla film production which would become a cornerstone regarding the production of cinema and how we talk about it. The second feature film from Linklater in 2025, following the Berlin Film Festival premiere of Blue Moon, which pays tribute to Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart in the waning of his career, approaches the personality of a major artist from the opposite end of his trajectory.…...

Nouvelle Vague director and Austin native Richard Linklater is calling B.S. on President Donald Trump’s suggestion for film tariffs.

“That’s not gonna happen. That guy changes his mind 50 times. Film is our No. 1 U.S. export,” said the filmmaker who shot Nouvelle Vague in France and his previous movie Blue Moon in Ireland — pics potentially could be “tariff”-able under the Trump plan that has proposes a 120% tariff on movies receiving foreign film credits. The debate is that, given the fact that film is digital, it’s not necessarily taxable under the World Free Trade Agreement. Motion pictures aren’t car parts.

Related: Cannes Chief Thierry Frémaux Addresses Trump’s Tariffs: “Cinema Always Finds A Way Of Existing & Reinventing Itself”

As far as whether it’s more expensive to shoot in the U.S., the Boyhood filmmaker disagrees: “I think the true indie film with no budget cost...

Richard Linklater’s French New Wave tribute “Nouvelle Vague” was always going to find a perfect home at Cannes, and such is the case following the period drama’s rapturous world premiere in competition at the 2025 festival. The film earned a rousing six-and-half-minute standing ovation as the cast hugged each other and leading lady Zoey Deutch blew kisses to the audience.

The “Nouvelle Vague” premiere was a spirited affair from the start. Linklater and cast member Zoey Deutch were spotted singing along and dancing on the red carpet as they ascended the iconic stairs at the Palais. Before the film started, Linklater hugged and chatted briefly with Quentin Tarantino. The “Pulp Fiction” director, who has premiered several movies at Cannes, enthusiastically clapped for Linklater during the standing ovation. Tarantino was visibly moved by the film.

“It means so much for us to be here tonight. Over a year ago we were filming right here,...

Richard Linklater — paragon of American cinema — has decided to go French. In addition to unveiling his Lorenz Hart chamber piece “Blue Moon” at this year’s Berlinale, Linklater went intercontinental by premiering his ode to the French New Wave, “Nouvelle Vague,” in competition at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. Watch a teaser for the film below.

“Nouvelle Vague” is set during the 1959 Paris-set shoot of Jean-Luc Godard’s debut feature, “Breathless.” Starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and American actress Jean Seberg, “Breathless” follows an aimless criminal and his unwitting romantic interest as they fall in love, while at the same time being pursued by the law. Aubry Dullin and Zoey Deutch fill the roles of Belmondo and Seberg, while Guillaume Marbeck takes on the maestro himself, Godard. Other luminaries of the French New Wave featured in the film include François Truffaut (Adrien Rouyard), Suzanne Schiffman (Jodie Ruth-Forest), Claude Chabrol (Antoine Besson), Agnès Varda...

Maika Monroe is replacing Margaret Qualley in an adaptation of the novel thriller “Victorian Psycho.”

Qualley parted ways with “Victorian Psycho” mere weeks before filming was set to start in February. A24, which also boarded the project in its early days of development, has also quietly exited the feature and hasn’t been attached for a while, a source confirmed to IndieWire. With Monroe attached, “Victorian Psycho” will again be shopped at the Cannes market.

Qualley would’ve reunited with “Sanctuary” director Zachary Wigon, who is still attached to direct, as is co-star Thomasin McKenzie. Production was going to start in February 2025 in Dublin, Ireland. A representative confirmed to IndieWire that Qualley had a sudden scheduling conflict and had to exit the project. It’s now set to begin filming in August.

“Victorian Psycho” is set in 1858 and story centers on Winifred Notty, a governess hiding her psychopathic tendencies as...

Sony Pictures Classics has scheduled Blue Moon, Richard Linklater’s latest film, for release on October 17 in New York and Los Angeles, with a broader rollout planned for October 24. The biographical drama centers on lyricist Lorenz Hart, one half of the iconic Rodgers and Hart songwriting duo, during a pivotal evening in 1943.

Set almost entirely at Sardi’s Restaurant, the film unfolds on the night Oklahoma! premiered on Broadway—Rodgers’ first collaboration with Oscar Hammerstein II after parting ways with Hart. Ethan Hawke plays Hart, who reflects on his legacy and confronts the emotional toll of professional displacement. The cast includes Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, and Andrew Scott.

The story takes place over a single night, capturing the personal and artistic reckoning of a man witnessing the reshaping of American musical theater without his involvement. Hawke and Linklater, long-time collaborators, team up for the ninth time on this project. Their...

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Sony Pictures Classics has announced that Blue Moon, the upcoming biographical portrait of Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart, will be released in theaters on October 17, 2025 in Los Angeles and New York, before expanding nationwide on October 24, 2025. The movie is directed by Richard Linklater from a script by Robert Kaplow. Blue Moon, which stars Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke in his 9th collaboration with Linklater, alongside Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott, had its world premiere at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival, where it received rave reviews, as well as the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance for Andrew Scott. Find out what critics thought of the film here. The movie profiles the final days of <a...

Sony Pictures Classics has set Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon” for a limited release on Oct. 17 with a nationwide rollout on Oct. 24.

The film, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, stars Linklater’s longtime collaborator Ethan Hawke in the actor-director duo’s ninth film together. It follows the final days of Lorenz Hart, the first collaborator with famed songwriter Richard Rodgers before his more famous partnership with Oscar Hammerstein. The film is set in 1943 on the opening night of “Oklahoma!,” the first Rodgers & Hammerstein musical.

The film also stars Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott, the latter of whom won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at Berlin. Robert Kaplow wrote the screenplay.

Linklater produced the film alongside Mike Blizzard and John Sloss. The film is a Detour/Renovo production in association with Wild Atlantic Pictures, Under the Influence and Cinetic Media. Additional EPs include Wild Atlantic’s Macdara Kelleher,...

After releasing two films last year with Hit Man and the rather-overlooked God Save Texas: Hometown Prison, the ever-prolific Richard Linklater returns in 2025 with two more features. Earlier this year he premiered Blue Moon at Berlinale. Now Sony Pictures Classics, in the official CinemaCon program guide, has confirmed a fall release window for the drama.

Described as “a funny Valentine to old Broadway,” here’s the synopsis: “On the evening of March 31, 1943, legendary lyricist Lorenz Hart confronts his shattered self-confidence in Sardi’s bar as his former collaborator Richard Rodgers celebrates the opening night of his ground-breaking hit musical Oklahoma!“

Meanwhile, Linklater looks to have locked his next feature Nouvelle Vague, his tribute to the French New Wave and chronicle of the making of Breathless, directed in the style of Jean-Luc Godard’s landmark debut. While it’s still seeking U.S. distribution, French distributor Arp Sélection has confirmed an...

Oh, Hi! has now found a studio. The upcoming dark romantic comedy, which was written and directed by Sophie Brooks (The Boy Downstairs), follows a couple - Iris and Isaac (Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief star Logan Lerman) - whose new marriage swiftly unravels when they embark on a road trip. The cast of the movie, which has already earned a solidly Fresh Rotten Tomatoes score of 72%, also includes Blockers' Geraldine Viswanathan and Stranger Things supporting player John Reynolds.

Per Variety, Oh, Hi! has been picked up by Sony Pictures Classics just over a month after its Sundance premiere on January 26. So far, there has been no official release date set for the project. Read comments on the acquisition from Sophie Brooks and Sony Pictures Classics below:

Sophie Brooks: I couldn’t be more thrilled that we have found our home with Sony Pictures Classics. For as long as I can remember,...

What’s going to be this year’s “Anora”? As the Cannes Film Festival rapidly approaches, that’s the question for artistic director Thierry Fremaux and movie buffs around the world.

A month before Cannes Film Festival’s press conference, the official selection is still very much a work in progress, with little reliable information filtering through about which movies have already been invited. In fact, as of Friday — despite the volume of splashy prediction stories — it appears that only three films have so far been given a golden ticket to compete in Cannes. Variety can reveal that one of them is Jim Jarmusch’s anticipated “Father Mother Sister Brother“ starring Cate Blanchett, Adam Driver and Tom Waits.

The last edition of the festival, which Fremaux had warned would be slightly weaker due to the impact of the double Hollywood strikes, proved to be anything but. Headlined by Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or-winning “Anora,...

“If you don’t care about money and you just want to do something cool, you can do it.”

When Richard Linklater thinks back on the Austin Film Society (Afs), now celebrating its 40th anniversary, it all boils down to that. A powerful example of creating something cool that you love and then the money might come later, Afs has given over $2.7 million in grants to filmmakers and boasts 20 acres of studio space with its Austin Studios — where productions have created 37,000 jobs and over $2.6 billion of economic impact for Austin.

On the evening of March 6, Afs will be celebrating its 40th anniversary at the annual event it hosts, the Texas Film Awards, which also touts 25 years of inducting Texans from the film and TV world into the Texas Film Hall of Fame.

In terms of swank and style, Afs has come a long way. But according to its founder, Linklater,...

“Blue Moon” (2025) directed by Richard Linklater and co-written with Ethan Hawke, is a film that intertwines music, memory, and longing in a narrative shaped by the life and work of the legendary songwriting duo Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart. It stars Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley, and Hawke himself. Set against the backdrop of early 20th-century Broadway, a time when musical theater was rapidly evolving into a defining American art form, the film explores how Hart’s deeply personal lyrics, often filled with yearning, wit, and melancholy, mirrored his own life.

It is a film of quiet devastation, a single night stretched into a lifetime of longing. Set within the warmly lit yet isolating walls of Sardi’s bar in 1943, it lingers in the melancholy of lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), a man eclipsed by the brilliance of his former collaborator, Richard Rodgers. The film is not a biopic in the traditional sense,...

The 75th Berlin International Film Festival has wrapped its first year under new artistic director Tricia Tuttle. Along with programming directors Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz, Tuttle worked to curate a festival that would attract audiences, not just the industry, as the Berlinale is the largest public film festival in the world.

The awards this past Saturday were crowned by the Norwegian coming-of-age romantic drama, “Dreams (Sex Love),” the third in a trilogy of films by Dag Johan Haugerud, and one that raises fascinating questions about consent and authorship. The festival started off rockily, opening with Tom Tykwer’s roundly dismissed, Berlin-set, sanctimonious paean to white guilt, “The Light,” but the Berlinale soon rebounded with the rapturous receptions to films like Richard Linklater’s Lorenz Hart chamber tragicomedy “Blue Moon” and Bong Joon Ho’s satirical sci-fi spectacle “Mickey 17.”

Deals out of the European Film Market, like what we saw at Sundance,...

How far back in the Berlin Film Festival’s 75-year history do you have to go to find an edition as strong as this one? About a quarter-century, I reckon, to 2002, when “Bloody Sunday” and “Spirited Away” tied for the festival’s top prize.

As long as I can remember, Berlin held the distant-third spot in the so-called “Big Three” festivals, far behind Cannes and Venice in both prestige and its power to attract the caliber of movies that shape the conversation. It may never surpass its two older cousins, but for the first time in forever, under the direction of incoming festival chief Tricia Tuttle and her team, I felt a frisson of excitement bubbling up through the slippery ice and sub-zero temperatures.

Berlin has always felt like a slog, between the climate and the scandalously low hit-to-miss ratio in a sprawling lineup of nearly 200 films. Still, I hadn...

The Berlin Film Festival kicked off its 75th anniversary edition February 13 with the opening-night world premiere screening of The Light, Tom Tykwer’s politically charged film that takes stock of German society in the first quarter of the 21st century. It starts 11 days of debuts including for movies starring Jessica Chastain, Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Rupert Friend, Marion Cotillard, Rose Byrne, A$AP Rocky, Emma Mackey and more.

The 2025 Berlinale runs through February 23.

Keep checking back below as Deadline reviews the best and buzziest movies of the festival. Click on the titles to read the full reviews.

Blue Moon

Section: Competition

Director: Richard Linklater

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale, Andrew Scott

Deadline’s takeaway: Richard Linklater’s Broadway chamber piece looks back to a lost time and mourns a lost soul in Lorenz Hart as the booze is about to consume him. In a bravura theatrical performance, Ethan Hawke...

The 2025 Berlin International Film Festival announced its award winners on Saturday, with Dreams (Sex Love) from filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud winning the prestigious Golden Bear. Acting honors went to lead performer Rose Byrne for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You and supporting performer Andrew Scott for Blue Moon.

This year’s 2025 Berlinale competition jury was led by filmmaker Todd Haynes (his narrative feature debut Poison was awarded the Teddy Prize for queer filmmaking in Berlin in 1991). Other jurors included Nabil Ayouch (Morocco/France), costume designer Bina Daigeler (Germany), actor Fan Bingbing (China), director Rodrigo Moreno (Argentina), Los Angeles Times critic Amy Nicholson (U.S.), and filmmaker and actor Maria Schrader (Germany).

See the complete list of 2025 Berlin International Film Festival award winners below.

Golden Bear: Dreams (Sex Love) by Dag Johan Haugerud

Silver Bear Jury Prize: The Message by Iván Fund

Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize: The Blue Trail...

The 75th anniversary edition of the Berlin Film Festival — and the first under the leadership of its new chief, Tricia Tuttle — drew to a close Saturday night, as the jury awarded the Golden Bear to Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams (Sex Love).”

There’s a special poetry in giving this film — the portrait of a teenage girl with a passionate imagination who pours her intense feelings toward a teacher into a transformative personal essay — the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival. The film represents the third installment in the Norwegian writer-director’s “Dream Sex Love” trilogy. The first, “Sex,” premiered a year earlier in the Panorama section of the 2024 Berlin Film Fest, while “Love” debuted in competition at Venice late last summer.

“The film is called ‘Drømmer’ — it’s Norwegian for ‘dreams’ — and this was beyond my wildest dreams really,” said Haugerud, in accepting the prize from jury president Todd Haynes.

At a snowy Berlinale, against a backdrop of political divisions, this year’s standouts include Lucile Hadžihalilović’s The Ice Tower, Richard Linklater’s Broadway biopic of Lorenz Hart, and intensely sexual romance starring Jessica Chastain

Berlin can be a touch inhospitable in February; this year was no exception, with visitors to the film festival enduring heavy snow, treacherous pavements and a two-day, city-wide transport strike. But the Berlinale itself is contending with a frosty climate. Traditionally a hub for film-makers of forthright, oppositional persuasions, it must now attempt to flourish in the face of Europe’s swing to the right, with Germany’s elections imminent and the troubling rise of the extremist AfD party.

Every new festival head faces the challenge of reinventing the event they have inherited, and in the Berlinale’s 75th year, the bar was set especially high given the scrutiny the festival has received. Last...

This year’s Berlin Film Festival, under new artistic director Tricia Tuttle, moves closer toward popular tastes than arguably under the stead of Carlo Chatrian. He departed the festival last year while leaving behind a legacy of programming a more arthouse-minded slate. Italian cineaste Chatrian came from Locarno as well as more niche festivals throughout Europe; Tuttle is an American with a history of film journalism and programming in the States and at the BFI London.

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There was Dewey Finn, Ned Schneebly, Willoughby, Mason Evans Sr.––now there’s Lorenz (or Larry) Hart. Richard Linklater likes a certain type of guy, and maybe these features come across too infrequently in his female characters: charismatic, voluble, verbose, enthusiastic as a puppy, and if prone to morose stretches, never in a way that destabilizes an essential upbeat humanism.

Blue Moon, which world-premiered at the Berlinale, is another beautifully personal work from Linklater, full of authorial idiosyncrasies and tics, but distinguishing the film from his corpus is it being the kind you can only make at a mature career stage. It’s not so much that Linklater has nothing to prove––screenplays like Robert Kaplow’s and its rarified, remote milieu of mid-wwii New York theaterland can typically send financiers balking. With a “legacy” career, little favors and gives come your way; for Linklater, maybe his next will be a legitimate awards contender,...

Ethan Hawke is getting raves and (very, very) early awards buzz for his performance in Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon, which had its world premiere in Berlin Tuesday night.

Hawke is unrecognizable as famed American musical-theater lyricist Lorenz, “Larry” Hart, the balding, diminutive creative partner to composer Richard Rodgers. The real-time feature follows Hart as he struggles with alcoholism and depression on the opening night of Oklahoma!, Rodgers’ Broadway triumph and his first musical with new lyricist Oscar Hammerstein. Andrew Scott is Rodgers, Margaret Qualley is Elizabeth Weiland, Hart’s student “protégée.” Bobby Cannavale plays Hart’s bartender buddy, Eddie.

But the film belongs to Hawke, who appears in every frame and gives one of his long career’s standout performances. His Hart alternates between charming raconteur and seedy has-been as he tries to reconcile with Rogers for a possible comeback. Even more unlikely is his attempt to woo Elizabeth,...

Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon and Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You are among the latest titles dividing critics on this year’s Berlin jury grid.

Ethan Hawke stars as songwriter Lorenz Hart in his latest collaboration with Linklater which scored an average of 2.8 stars after proving divisive. Blue Moon received three four stars (excellent) while Martin Horyna and Kalapapruek gave it just one star (poor). The rest of the scores comprised two or three stars with one critic left to score.

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They say the old tunes are the best and this one’s a romantic serenade to the bygone era of Forties NYC theatreland cut through with a melancholic counter-melody to lyricist Lorenz Hart (Ethan Hawke), whose alcoholism led to his collapse in the street after a night in a bar, in November 1943 and his subsequent death, at 48, from pneumonia days later.

Richard Linklater’s chamber piece character study opens with that night and the gutter before spinning back to a different night looking at the stars six months before when Hart’s former composing partner Richard Rodgers opened his first venture with Oscar Hammerstein II, Oklahoma!, on Broadway. Hart’s opinion of it is easy to see as he leaves his mother in the theatre early and retreats to the bar, even though he has theoretically sworn off booze.

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Lorenz Hart dwells in a realm between genius and sorrow. His clever wordplay masks deeper emotions, acting as both defense and constraint. A profound melancholy lurks beneath his surface—a man consumed by personal demons, entrapped by alcohol and self-destruction. His resentment towards Oklahoma! stems from a deep sense of being left behind.

Ethan Hawke portrays this complexity with nuanced skill, his interpretation revealing Hart’s internal turmoil. The subtle curve of his shoulders, the quiet tension in his expression, communicates years of emotional struggle and unfulfilled dreams. He shifts between sardonic humor and deep sadness, revealing a talented individual crushed by isolation.

Hart’s personal connections, particularly with Elizabeth Weiland and Eddie, reveal the broken landscape of his emotional world—dreams of intimacy forever lingering just beyond his grasp.

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The best line in “Casablanca”? If you had asked Broadway lyricist Lorenz Hart that question on the evening of March 31, 1943, he would have recited back to you the following confession: “Nobody’s loved me that much.” This phrase makes at least three appearances in director Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” setting a tone of yearning and compliance on behalf of the film’s main character, Hart, portrayed by usual suspect Ethan Hawke, this time full of tenderness and contradictions.

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Ethan Hawke’s transformative turn in “Blue Moon” — the actor’s first film in a decade with longtime collaborator Richard Linklater — just brought the house down in Berlin.

The audience reactions at the Berlinale world premiere were hugely positive for the biographical musical drama from Sony Pictures Classics, which tells the story of American lyricist Lorenz Hart (Hawke) as he battles alcoholism and depression on the opening night of “Oklahoma!,” the first musical penned by his former creative partners Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein.

Following the screening, cheers erupted around the Palast for Linklater and his cast — the loudest for his “Before” trilogy and “Boyhood” star, who was dressed in a checkered suit and large multicolored tie. As Hart, Hawke is in practically every frame of “Blue Moon” and is almost unrecognizable on screen — especially concerning his height (the lyricist was only 5 feet tall). There were further cheers for his co-stars in attendance,...

Costars Margaret Qualley and Ethan Hawke showcased just how close they’ve gotten while promoting their new movie Blue Moon at the 2025 Berlinale International Film Festival on Tuesday (February 18).

The close pals were joined by costar Andrew Scott and walked the red carpet at both a photocall and the movie’s premiere during the festival. They also participated in a press conference!

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Margaret brought her dog Smokey along for the special event and was seen holding her cute dog in her lap during the press event. She looked chic in a black dress with a white color and dark tights at the photocall and changed into a long white dress for the premiere.

Director Richard Linklater and producers Mike Blizzard and John Sloss were also present. Other stars including Benedict Cumberbatch and Rose Byrne attended the premiere. We’ve got photos of everyone in the gallery!

Those with even the most cursory knowledge of musical theater would be familiar with the work of Rodgers and Hammerstein; those with similar familiarity with Rodgers and Hart, on the other hand, would be fewer and further in between. And from that simple statement of fact builds Richard Linklater’s “Blue Moon,” a bittersweet biopic of sorts that premiered on Tuesday at the Berlin Film Festival. Pitched halfway between “Midnight in Paris” and “Inside Llewyn Davis,” Linklater’s proudly stagey old-showbiz hangout follows a man as he watches the world pass him by in real-time.

That man is lyricist Lorenz Hart — a titan of the American songbook whose influence can still be measured in show tunes and jazz standards, but whose name and reputation have receded further than his hairline in the eight decades since his death. And though “Blue Moon” opens with the drinking binge that directly resulted in Hart’s November 1943 passing,...

The long and rewarding collaboration between Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater stretches back 30 years to Before Sunrise, continuing with the other two parts of that superlative romantic trilogy, filmed at nine-year intervals, Before Sunset and Before Midnight. While that project spanned 27 years, the actor and the director also spent more than a decade shooting Boyhood for a few days at a time, once or twice a year. Their intimate knowledge of artistic symbiosis adds a poignant underlay to Hawke and Linklater’s reunion on Blue Moon, a transfixing character study that X-rays the shaky skeleton of a creative partnership of comparable duration.

Written with wry humor and perspicacity by Robert Kaplow, whose novel was the basis of Linklater’s 2008 feature, Me and Orson Welles, the new film again is set in the world of Broadway and expands on theater lore in illuminating personal ways.

It unfolds in real time on...