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‘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."
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall Bring Life to Ira Sachs’ Quietly Devastating Drama
Ben Whishaw tells a story in Ira Sachs' narratively bold film "Peter Hujar's Day," based on the transcript of a conversation between two friends.
Ben Whishaw on the big 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: Ira Sachs' Magnificent Two-Hander Is Like a Documentary on Its Two Great Actors, Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall
Sundance: Whishaw and Hall play 1970s New York artists in a gorgeous monologue of a movie that becomes one you want to live inside.
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.
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.
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,
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.
‘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'
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’: Sundance Review
One of cinema’s great challenges, how to film two people in a room talking, is answered to beautiful effect in Peter Hujar’s Day – although strictly speaking, the room is a New York apartment, with a brief detour to the roof.
‘Peter Hujar's Day' Review: Ben Whishaw Plays the Noted New York Photographer in Ira Sachs' Magical 1974 Time Capsule of a Movie
On that score, you might say that "Peter Hujar's Day" is the biopic as sonnet. The entire film takes place in one day - but more than that, it consists entirely of Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), the noted New York photographer of the 1970s and '80s,
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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 ...
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.