Feb 1, 2025 · From Ira Sachs — director of the striking contemporary queer drama Passages — the 1970s New York-set Peter Hujar's Day is a confined, two-character experiment that's far more about mood than ...

The film is written and directed by Ira Sachs and was initially conceived as a short film before being developed into a feature length film. The producers on the film are Jordan Drake and Jonah Disend. [2] [3]The cast is led by Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. [4] Whishaw portrays photographer Peter Hujar with Hall featuring as the writer Linda Rosenkrantz. [5]

6 days ago · Collider's Steve Weintraub spoke to Ira Sachs, Ben Whishaw, and Rebecca Hall about their film Peter Hujar's Day at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. In this interview, they talk about...

Jan 30, 2025 · 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 at the festival, Sachs reunites with actor Ben Whishaw for a picture that’s one 76-minute dialogue between two friends in a New York ...

Jan 27, 2025 · Ira Sachs discusses his collaboration with Ben Whishaw,, getting fired by his manager and his new Sundance drama 'Peter Hujar's Day'

Jan 27, 2025 · It was about whatever Peter Hujar happened to be doing. A transcript of that recorded conversation was recently discovered, and when the venerable indie filmmaker Ira Sachs (“Passages,” “Keep the...

Jan 27, 2025 · Ira Sachs’s latest delicately stages a 50-year-old conversation between a writer and a photographer. In December 1974, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz sat down with her friend Peter Hujar—a...

Jan 27, 2025 · Ben Whishaw stars in 'Peter Hujar's Day,' Ira Sachs' recreation of a conversation between the photographer and a writer friend played by Rebecca Hall. The film is constructed from recently ...

Jan 27, 2025 · 'Peter Hujar's Day' filmmaker Ira Sachs explained the inspiration behind his experimental Ben Whishaw pic while at Deadline's Sundance Studio.

Jan 29, 2025 · Ira Sachs’ latest film “Peter Hujar’s Day” is a fascinating experiment and historical document, and in speaking at the IndieWire Studio, presented by Dropbox, he said it “kept me up at...