As an adolescent with basic cable in the pre-streaming era, I often found myself watching snippets of unidentified films on ...

There’s something schematic—bordering on mechanical—about how Blue Moon sketches the contours of Larry’s public persona and ...

We’ve all heard his songs “My Funny Valentine,” “The Lady Is a Tramp” and “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered.” The melancholic movie is set entirely at New York’s famed Sardi’s restaurant, where ...

By a quirk of scheduling, two movies about melancholic, albeit talented, figures in the world of music are playing in ...

Few know the name of Lorenz Hart (1895-1943) today, but along with his musical partner Richard Rodgers, they were the most famous Broadway songwriting duo in the first half of the twentieth century.

First there was Rodgers & Hart. Then there was Rodgers & Hammerstein. And that change, depicted in the new film 'Blue Moon,' signaled a shift in pop culture ...

Lorenz Hart isn’t the most obvious subject for a biopic. What a lyricist does, even one as gifted as Hart, is heard rather than seen. Nor was his life a happy one. Hart was painfully short (“Five foot ...