Sundance: The filmmaker said making dialogue between photographer Peter Hujar and a friend "suspenseful, emotional, not boring, was an interesting challenge." Ira Sachs’ latest film “Peter ...
Ben Whishaw stars as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz. The Hollywood Reporter‘s review of the film called it among Sachs’ best, with critic David Rooney writing, “Led by a performance ...
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 ...
Panelists: Ira Sachs (writer-director), Ben Whishaw (actor), Rebecca Hall (actor) Key quotes: Watch on Deadline Ira Sachs on his discovery of and draw to Peter Hujar: I first saw Peter Hujar’s ...
It’s one of the few projects to land a buyer out of the festival so far. Written and directed by Ira Sachs, “Peter Hujar’s Day” is set over a 24-hour period in December 1974 and centers on ...
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 ...
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 ...
In 2008, 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 ...
“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 ...