#BlueMoon is a companion piece to earlier #RichardLinklater film on another turning point in US theater history #MeAndOrsonWelles. In a tour de force performance #EthanHawke delivers a sharp critique of his former partner's #Oklahoma which suggests a general dumbing down of 40s American culture

Richard Linklater Filmmakers Richard Stuart Linklater (born July 30, 1960) is an American filmmaker. He is known for humanist films that revolve mainly around suburban culture and the effects of the passage of time.…

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Me & Orson Welles (Richard Linklater, 2008). NYC, 1937. A teenager (Zac Efron) acts with Orson Welles (Christian McKay) in an edgy production of Julius Caesar. Both of them crave Sonja (Claire Danes). It’s the comic, compelling theatre film that Mrs Henderson Presents wanted to be. #MeAndOrsonWelles