OPENING NIGHT:
'BLUE MOON' + AFTER PARTY

In Blue Moon, Richard Linklater crafts a haunting, queer-inflected chamber drama set on the pivotal night of March 31, 1943. Ethan Hawke delivers a revelatory performance as Lorenz Hart—the brilliant, alcoholic, and closeted lyricist—who spends the evening in Sardi’s bar grappling with his fading career and the ache of unrequited desire. Meanwhile, Andrew Scott plays his estranged (and newly successful) writing partner Richard Rodgers, whose triumph with Oklahoma! underscores Hart’s sense of obsolescence and isolation. With stunning turns from Margaret Qualley and Bobby Cannavale, the film poignantly explores queer loneliness, artistic legacy, and the painful cost of visibility in a heteronormative world. Rich with jazz, Broadway nostalgia, and existential longing, Blue Moon is both elegy and love letter—to New York, to music, and to a gay man silenced by his time.