Any director showing their movie at New York Film Festival has reason to be excited, but the Before trilogy director, Richard Linklater , gets to double that thrill this year. His film Blue Moon is premiering at NYFF , showing audiences an Ethan Hawke–starring drama following composer Lorenz Hart as he watches from the sidelines while his former writing partner Richard Rodgers’s Oklahoma! changes musical theater. And it’s joined by another Linklater film, Nouvelle Vague , which is about French director Jean-Luc Godard as he directs his landmark film, Breathless , an influential movie in the early French New Wave. “They’re different films, and I think it’s cool that they’re coming to the finish line around the same time,” Linklater said on the red carpet for the Nouve

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