The Top Five Ethan Hawke Movies and a Double Shot of Richard Linklater, With Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater!

The Big Picture

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Tv & Film

4.3 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2025

⏱️ 107 minutes

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On today’s action-packed show, Sean and Amanda dive deep into the two newest films from one of their favorite filmmakers, Richard Linklater. Before diving in, they react to a handful of movie news headlines, including Tom Cruise’s honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards, the new teaser trailer for the live-action ‘Moana’ film, and Georgia Oakley’s upcoming remake of ‘Sense and Sensibility,’ starring Daisy Edgar-Jones (1:14). Then, they discuss ‘Nouvelle Vague’ (16:06) and ‘Blue Moon’ (28:11) and explain why they found the former to be an interesting exercise and the latter to be one of the best movies of 2025. Later, they break down what makes Ethan Hawke such a great actor and rank their five favorite performances of his career (46:07). Finally, Sean is joined by Hawke and Linklater to explain why 'Blue Moon' was the perfect project for a collaborative reunion, explore how they have evolved as filmmakers and performers over their illustrious careers, and discuss why they feel optimistic about the current state of moviegoing and the challenges both the industry and society face (56:29). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Guests: Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater Producer: Jack Sanders Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Sean Fennacy.
0:10.8	I'm Amanda Dobbins.
0:11.6	And this is the Big Picture
0:12.5	A Conversation Show about life and death.
0:15.3	And art.
0:15.9	And art for sure.
0:16.8	On today's episode,
0:17.5	we'll discuss two new Richard Linklater films,
0:19.9	Newvel Vogue,
0:20.6	which is now available on Netflix in the United States,
0:23.3	and Blue Moon, which is expanding in theaters later this month. The former is a recreation of and homage to
0:28.3	the making of Jean-Luc Goddard's Breathless and the dawning of the French New Wave. The latter is Blue Moon,
0:34.0	an elegiac portrait of the lyricist and musical theater legend Lorenz Hart, which stars Ethan Hawke in one of the years' great performances. Later in this episode, Amanda, I will have Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawk here for a conversation. I don't know if I could name two people that I like more or like talking to more that have been on this show before. And to have them together was very special. It was a very good conversation.
0:54.7	They were here.
0:55.0	They were sitting right in the seat that you were in, not on top of each other.
0:57.5	Okay.
0:57.8	There was a third chair here.
0:59.6	Ethan Hawk was third chair on the big picture.
1:01.6	And he was in the middle.
1:02.3	He was right in the middle.
1:03.0	That's cute.
1:03.4	He middled.
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