Richard Linklater must have extraordinary pull to get big-screen releases for his two esoteric period movies this year, because only a small group of avid American musical superfans will find Blue Moon interesting.

I went to see Richard Linklater’s Blue Moon because I’m one of the extremely niche group of people still living who care about the life and work of lyricist Lorenz Hart. Hart was a scintillating talent and a tormented man who wrote the lyrics for the scores of many hit musical shows from the 1920s and ’30s with his longtime friend and songwriting partner, composer Richard Rodgers.

Just to give you an idea of the extent of my interest in this subject, when it comes to the Great American Songbook standards written by Rodgers and Hart and recorded by a rotation of top singers thr

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