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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.
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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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review 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 Full Review Read all reviews

Movie Info

Synopsis 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