Joel Smith of the Morgan Library & Museum wrote in the catalogue for the 2018 exhibition Peter Hujar: Speed of Life that “the signature move in his art is to lavish a portraitist’s attention ...
Peter Hujar's Day stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall discuss how they stepped into the skin of classic American artists in ...
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, expansive detail ...
Ira Sachs discusses 'Peter Hujar's Day' and his challenge in making the transcript of a conversation cinematic.
Sundance: Whishaw and Hall play 1970s New York artists in a gorgeous monologue of a movie that becomes one you want to live inside.
Money, or rather the lack thereof, is front-and-center in Sachs’ latest feature, “Peter ... find deeply personal.” Though Hujar died before society and culture caught up to his genius, Sachs feels he ...
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall star in the film that The Hollywood Reporter called one of the director’s best. After its ...
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to Ira Sachs’ new movie Peter Hujar’s Day which made its world ...
Ira Sachs’s latest film, Peter Hujar’s Day, takes the slice-of-life genre to its extreme, delivering an experimental work that many may dismiss as uneventful but has many fascinating layers to unpack.
Logline: A recently discovered conversation between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw ... art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.
As Nan Goldin once wrote of Hujar's personal artistry ... Sachs generally excels at creating this sense of life between the creases, and Peter Hujar's Day is among his finest aesthetic achievements.