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'Peter Hujar's Day' Review: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall Bring Life to Ira Sachs' Quietly Devastating Drama
"Peter Hujar's Day" is one of those films whose title is almost humorously straightforward, yet only gives a hint of what the experience of watching it is actually like. While true that it is about a day in the life of the late photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) that he recounts to his close friend Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) in mundane,
“In a Way This Film Asks, What is Lost by the Virtual?” Ira Sachs on his Sundance-Premiering Peter Hujar’s Day
Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s life in the 1970s and now, and the classic independent short films that influenced the making of Peter Hujar’s Day.
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Director Ira Sachs on Turning a Conversation Transcript Into Cinema: ‘What the Hell Do I Do with This?’
Sundance: The filmmaker said making dialogue between photographer Peter Hujar and a friend "suspenseful, emotional, not boring, was an interesting challenge."
Ben Whishaw and Ira Sachs Know 'Peter Hujar's Day' Could Have Been 'Sort of Pretentious' | Video
"Peter Hujar's Day" reunites writer-director Ira Sachs with his "Passages" star Ben Whishaw, and Sachs revealed at TheWrap's Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt that his latest effort began while he was still making that searing 2023 relationship drama.
Ben Whishaw on the biggest challenge of playing gay photographer Peter Hujar in new movie
Ben Whishaw had 55 pages of dialogue to learn for his new movie while his co-lead, Rebecca Hall had just three. The film, Peter Hujar’s Day, is about the celebrated gay photographer of the same name. Whishaw plays the role of Hujar, who died in 1987 of AIDS-related illness.
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw Plays the Noted New York Photographer in Ira Sachs’ Magical 1974 Time Capsule of a Movie
It's based on a transcript of Hujar's's description of what he did on one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary.
Ira Sachs On Making “An Action Film Of Two People Talking” With ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ – Sundance Studio
Peter Hujar's Day' filmmaker Ira Sachs explained the inspiration behind his experimental Ben Whishaw pic while at Deadline's Sundance Studio.
Sundance 2025: Rebuilding, Together, Peter Hujar’s Day
Josh O'Connor and Lily LaTorre appear in Rebuilding by Max Walker-Silverman, an official selection of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute | photo by Jesse Hope. Some dispatches out of Sundance are built around themes, premiere dates, or even locations. Sometimes it’s just three good movies. This is one of those.
Ira Sachs on Getting Dumped by His Manager, Working With Ben Whishaw and His Intimate Sundance Drama ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’
Ira Sachs got fired by his manager. The most indie spirited of independent filmmakers had refused to play the game for too long, and the bill had finally come due. “I understood it in a way,” Sachs, more than a decade and a half-dozen features removed from that experience,
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall Get Lost In Ira Sachs’ Cinematic Exercise [Sundance]
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall portray Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz in Ira Sach's latest Sundance premiere, 'Peter Hujar's Day'
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Peter Hujar
Among the features premiering this year at the Sundance Film Festival, there are none — on paper — simpler than Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day. Arriving just two years after he premiered his Passages ...
The Best Film at Sundance Is Just Two People Talking
Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, starts off as an elevation of the quotidian but transforms into something more reflective.
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Peter Hujar – Eyes Open in the Dark
This is the first exhibition to take on the full breadth of Peter Hujar’s later photography. Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 ...