The new film “Peter Hujar’s Day”, which recently premiered at Sundance, is based on the transcript of a 1974 conversation ...
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.
"Peter Hujar's Day" is, in a certain sense, all about aspiration. When Hujar finally makes it over to Allen Ginsberg's flat, he's confronted with the legendary poet still living in a kind of ...
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 ... It’s a series of portraits that are based on ...
This is because “Peter Hujar’s Day” is ultimately more than just a conversation. “It’s a portrait of art making,” the Sachs observed. “It’s very hard to make a film about an artist.
One of cinema’s great challenges, how to film two people in a room talking, is answered to beautiful effect in Peter Hujar ... echoing Hujar’s own. Self-reflexive touches foreground the ...
On that score, you might say that “Peter ... When Hujar finally makes it over to Allen Ginsberg’s flat, he’s confronted with the legendary poet still living in a kind of self-imposed New ...