"Passages" arrives Friday in director Ira Sachs' Memphis hometown atop a wave of critical attention and ratings board controversy that is unprecedented in the filmmaker's three-decade career.

The upcoming film “Passages,” directed and co-written by Ira Sachs, has received ... to our own experience,” said Sachs, “and to find a movie like this, which is then shut out, is, to ...

Set to take place in Malta's capital of Valletta from June 21-29, the fest will screen more than 40 films and offer ...

IRA SACHS: Thank you, Scott ... One of the things we did when we made the film was we watched a number of movies with James Cagney, specifically "White Heat" and "Public Enemy." ...

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 ...

Viewers naïve enough to expect that an Ira Sachs movie might resolve happily will be disappointed. Sachs has formed his own unconventional family. He and his husband, Boris Torres (an artist ...

By Lily Ford Ira Sachs has a sneaky way of building a rapport ... because he really was such an uncompromising person and artist.” The movie is the second team-up between Whishaw and Sachs ...

In 2008, Ira Sachs got fired by his manager ... "Peter Hujar's Day," which premieres at this year's Sundance Film Festival. The movie centers on an extended conversation between Peter Hujar ...

Filmmaker Ira Sachs has spoken out against the Motion Picture ... And to shift that now would be to create a very different movie.” “Passages,” which premiered at Sundance this year, follows ...

Sachs, son of Park City, Utah, developer Ira Sachs Sr., was born in Memphis ... “It’s weird that you can see brains exploding in action movies but you cannot see two men having sex.

NEW YORK – Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated ... tenderness that had been missing from both life and American movies. Recommended Videos “I really wanted to make a horny film ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Ira Sachs never set out to make an NC-17-rated ... tenderness that had been missing from both life and American movies. “I really wanted to make a horny film,” Sachs said ...