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'Peter Hujar's Day' Review: Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall Bring Life to Ira Sachs' Quietly Devastating Drama
"Peter Hujar's Day" is one of those films whose title is almost humorously straightforward, yet only gives a hint of what the experience of watching it is actually like. 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,
Ben Whishaw on the biggest challenge of playing gay photographer Peter Hujar in new movie
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. Whishaw plays the role of Hujar, who died in 1987 of AIDS-related illness.
Ira Sachs on Getting Dumped by His Manager, Working With Ben Whishaw and His Intimate Sundance Drama ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’
Ira Sachs discusses his collaboration with Ben Whishaw,, getting fired by his manager and his new Sundance drama 'Peter Hujar's Day'
Ben Whishaw and Ira Sachs Know ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Could Have Been ‘Sort of Pretentious’ | Video
Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Hall, and Ira Sachs discuss "Peter Hujar's Day" with TheWrap at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.
“In a Way This Film Asks, What is Lost by the Virtual?” Ira Sachs on his Sundance-Premiering Peter Hujar’s Day
Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s life in the 1970s and now, and the classic independent short films that influenced the making of Peter Hujar’s Day.
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw Plays the Noted New York Photographer in Ira Sachs’ Magical 1974 Time Capsule of a Movie
It's based on a transcript of Hujar's's description of what he did on one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary.
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall Get Lost In Ira Sachs’ Cinematic Exercise [Sundance]
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall portray Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz in Ira Sach's latest Sundance premiere, 'Peter Hujar's Day'
Why Ben Whishaw had 55 pages of dialogue to memorize in new movie while co-lead Rebecca Hall had only 3
In "Peter Hujar's Day," which had its premiere at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, the bulk of the speaking falls to Whishaw.
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