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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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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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

Perhaps it is inevitably going to be of limited interest, and as intelligent as the two performances are, neither Whishaw nor Hall is tested very much. But it is an intriguing experiment in recovering the moment-by-moment reality of a lost time and place.

Rated: 3/5

Feb 14, 2025

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Martin Tsai

Sight & Sound

Whishaw delivers the 55 pages of monologue with the impressive illusion of spontaneity.

Feb 14, 2025

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Edward Douglas

The Weekend Warrior (Substack)

Involves characters with whom I was unfamiliar in a movie that offered nothing to interest me in learning more once it was over.

Rated: 6/10

Sep 30, 2025

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Pat Mullen

POV Magazine

The documentary-adjacent nature of Peter Hujar’s Day illustrates its genius in honouring lived experiences of working class artists. It’s an authentic and lived-in portrait an artist of whom few, if any, video interviews exist.

Sep 30, 2025

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Frank J. Avella

The Contending

The chief reason the film captivates is Whishaw’s fully-committed performance. He makes it seem like he’s coming up with the lines himself, never diving into any kind of manipulative emotion…

Rated: B-

Sep 26, 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