Peter Hujar's Day

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Peter Hujar's Day

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A film adaptation of the book, Peter Hujar's Day, by Linda Rosenkrantz. It invites audiences into a single day in 1974 with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar. Set entirely in one room, the film re-creates the conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz, recorded on audio tape nearly fifty years ago and later published as a book. Through their freewheeling, intimate exchange, Hujar shares vivid stories of his interactions with literary and cultural icons like William Burroughs, Candy Darling, Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg, while also reflecting on the rhythms of everyday life in 1970s New York.

Ira Sachs

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Ben Whishaw

Peter Hujar

Rebecca Hall

Linda Rosenkrantz

Ira Sachs

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Jordan Drake

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Jonah Disend

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Zachary Barnes

Wall Street Journal

At 76 minutes, the film could have been little more than a minor experiment, but director Ira Sachs takes the limited dramatic circumstances as an opportunity for remarkable invention.

Oct 16, 2025

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Monica Castillo

RogerEbert.com

The film is a surprisingly beautiful and subtle tribute to the balancing act it takes to be a working artist.

Rated: 4/4

Oct 8, 2025

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Stephen A. Russell

Time Out

We want to be there with them in the fading light, and that’s the might of Sach’s quiet little ode to friendship.

Mar 30, 2025

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Helen Hawkins

The Arts Desk

It’s an apparently casual limning of a man's daily routine, but one whose cast list features the people who will create the cultural fabric of the time.

Oct 15, 2025

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Ryan Swen

Taipei Mansions

The film even appears to take place over the span of a few days, with a full day-night-day-night cycle, suggesting that to simply talk about one’s day in any detail at all itself takes more time than it does to live it.

Oct 15, 2025

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Asyia Iftikhar

metro.co.uk

Perhaps, ultimately, the film’s worth as an unfiltered cultural time capsule – a precious commodity in an era of AI misinformation – is enough to justify its very existence. For everyone else, however, there’s not much pull to this posthumous ode.

Rated: 2.5/5

Oct 10, 2025

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A film adaptation of the book, Peter Hujar's Day, by Linda Rosenkrantz. It invites audiences into a single day in 1974 with groundbreaking queer photographer Peter Hujar. Set entirely in one room, the film re-creates the conversation between Hujar and Rosenkrantz, recorded on audio tape nearly fifty years ago and later published as a book. Through their freewheeling, intimate exchange, Hujar shares vivid stories of his interactions with literary and cultural icons like William Burroughs, Candy Darling, Susan Sontag and Allen Ginsberg, while also reflecting on the rhythms of everyday life in 1970s New York.

Director: Ira Sachs
Producer: Jordan Drake, Jonah Disend
Screenwriter: Ira Sachs
Distributor: Janus Films
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 7, 2025, Limited