"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,

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.

Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall portray Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz in Ira Sach's latest Sundance premiere, 'Peter Hujar's Day'

Ben Whishaw attends the premiere of "Peter Hujar's Day" during the Sundance Film Festival on Monday Jan. 27, 2025, at the Ray Theater in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Charles

On that score, you might say that "Peter Hujar's Day" is the biopic as sonnet. The entire film takes place in one day - but more than that, it consists entirely of Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), the noted New York photographer of the 1970s and '80s,

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