Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s ...
"Peter Hujar's Day" is one of those films whose title is almost humorously straightforward, yet only gives a hint of what the ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
“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 ...
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 ...
Ira Sachs, Rebecca Hall and Ben Wishaw to Los Angeles Times editor Matt Brennan about their Sundance film, “Peter Hujar’s Day” at the Los Angeles Times Talks @ Sundance Film Festival ...
In "Peter Hujar's Day," which had its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the bulk of the speaking falls to Whishaw.
Sundance 2025: "It's very hard to make a film about an artist," director Sachs says of the unlikely adaptation The post Ben Whishaw and Ira Sachs Know ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Could Have Been ...