Blue Moon Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/blue-moon/ The proven voice in music since 2013 Fri, 12 Dec 2025 19:09:26 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 https://redefined.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/31135224/cropped-V-SOCIAL-2023-32x32.png Blue Moon Archives - Vanyaland https://vanyaland.com/tag/blue-moon/ 32 32 Year in ReView: Vanyaland’s favorite film screen performances of 2025 https://vanyaland.com/2025/12/11/year-in-review-our-favorite-film-screen-performances-of-2025/ Thu, 11 Dec 2025 19:54:57 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042798 If you’d like to know my thoughts on acting in movies, I’d point you to the scene from Moneyball in which Billy Beane tries to convince Scott Hatteberg to play first base. It is incredibly hard, though the compensation and fame and all of the other accoutrements go a long way to convince the average schlub that it’s easy as hell. Just imagine trying to do a monologue in which you have to run the gamut of emotions while not […]

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]]> IFF Boston Fall Focus 2025 Review: ‘Blue Moon’ is a funny valentine for Ethan Hawke https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/24/iff-boston-fall-focus-2025-review-blue-moon-is-a-funny-valentine-for-ethan-hawke/ Fri, 24 Oct 2025 17:11:19 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042554 Calling all Oklahoma! haters — Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon is partially the feature-length excoriation of the plague that Rodgers and Hammerstein released on in 1942, one which soon spread to high school theater auditoriums and infected an entire generation of the Broadway-bound post-Ziegfeld. It is wonderfully out of step with the slow-burn obsession that certain filmmakers and showrunners have with the subversion (and unwitting reinforcement) of its iconography*. Here, Charlie Kaufman — this is a movie properly about disillusionment and failure, which works without having to […]

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]]> IFFBoston Fall Focus 2025: Five films to see for week one https://vanyaland.com/2025/10/09/iffboston-fall-focus-2025-five-movies-to-see-for-week-one/ Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:17:44 +0000 https://vanyaland.com/?p=10042460 Some things are just so nice that you have to do them twice, and that’s the reasoning behind the new format for IFFBoston’s Fall Focus program. It used to be that all of the season’s biggest films would be shown over the course of a single weekend at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge — if you had apple-picking plans or Oktoberfest business to do, tough luck — but now you’ll get two weekends of incredible cinema a few weeks or […]

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