Dir: Richard Linklater | USA | 2025 | 100 mins

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

 

A really beautiful, funny performance from Ethan Hawke – directed by his great collaborator, Richard Linklater (Before trilogy, Boyhood) – anchors this witty and affecting study of a gifted artist on a downhill slide that feels like a backstage pass to a bygone era of old New York.

Co-starring Margaret Qualley, Bobby Cannavale and Andrew Scott, it’s set on March 31, 1943: Musical-theatre lyricist Lorenz Hart is at Sardi’s on the opening night of his former writing partner Richard Rodgers’s (Scott) Broadway triumph, ‘Oklahoma!’ Drowning his sorrows, he regales barkeep Eddie (Cannavale) with stories and snark about his loves and hates of song and screen, before the arrival of his college-age obsession, Elizabeth Weiland (Qualley) and the triumphant Rodgers.

“A sophisticated, satisfying tour de force” The Guardian

 

ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION FOR THIS FILM:

OPEN CAPTIONED SCREENING - Monday 5 January at 2pm

WATCHWORD - a discreet closed-captioning system, ensuring that only those wearing supplied smart glasses can see the captions. These glasses can be worn over prescription glasses and around cochlear implants. Users can alter the size, colour, brightness, position and focus to their personal preference. Watchword is available on any screening of this title except the open captioned screening.

AUDIO DESCRIPTION - a recorded narration describes visual elements of the film - in gaps in the dialogue - through personal headphones. The film soundtrack is broadcast to cinema speakers in the usual way. The volume of each ear can be altered independently by the user. 

HARD OF HEARING - using our wireless headphones, the film soundtrack is broadcast direct to the user who can control the volume of each ear independently. This is also perfect for anyone sensitive to loud noises.

If you would like to book ahead for any of our accessibility equipment, please call our admin line on 01780 480846.