Six documentaries that have premiered in competition at this year’s Sundance Film Festival are among the 46 recipients of The ...
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 ...
Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s ...
Awards campaigning isn’t only about convincing voters that your film is good—it’s also about turning them against the ...
Ben Whishaw had 55 pages of dialogue to learn for his new movie while his co-lead, Rebecca Hall had just three. The film, Peter Hujar’s Day, is about the celebrated gay photographer of the same name.
We know from experience that awards season and all its attendant events, from the Golden Globes to the Academy Awards, are ...
"Peter Hujar's Day" is one of those films whose title is almost humorously straightforward, yet only gives a hint of what the ...
This is the first exhibition to take on the full breadth of Peter Hujar’s later photography. Hujar was a central figure in the downtown scene of 1970s and early 80s New York, but at his death in 1987 ...
Sundance: The filmmaker said making dialogue between photographer Peter Hujar and a friend "suspenseful, emotional, not ...
Directed by Sundance veteran Ira Sachs and focusing on a long conversation between two NYC artists, this unassuming gem is a ...
Ira Sachs’s new film, Peter Hujar’s Day, starts off as an elevation of the quotidian but transforms into something more reflective.
As the Sundance Film Festival nears its conclusion on Day 5, the buzz on Main Street in Park City continues with premieres ...