Ben Whishaw in "Peter Hujar's Day" by Ira Sachs. Credit: Sundance Institute From Ira Sachs — director of the striking contemporary queer drama Passages — the 1970s New York-set Peter Hujar's ...

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 ...

Additionally, Sideshow and Janus Films commented, "Our team fell in love with 'Peter Hujar's Day' immediately. With its deceptively minimal premise, Ira Sachs has crafted a deeply profound, major ...

"Peter Hujar's Day" recreates the conversation the duo had in 1974, relying on a transcript that was only recently discovered with frequent interjections and acknowledgments of the film's artifice ...