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 ...
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 ...
Sundance: Whishaw and Hall play 1970s New York artists in a gorgeous monologue of a movie that becomes one you want to live inside.
Ira Sachs discusses 'Peter Hujar's Day' and his challenge in making the transcript of a conversation cinematic.
Peter Hujar's Day is based on the ... New York City’s downtown art scene and the personal struggles and epiphanies that define an artist’s life.
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 ...
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.
It's based on a transcript of Hujar's description of what he did in one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary. In the ever-shifting world of the biopic, a biopic can be many ...
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.