Ira Sachs, Peter Hujar and Sideshow

Sundance 2025 Films Sold So Far: Ira Sachs' ‘Peter Hujar's Day' Sells to Sideshow and Janus Films
W hile Sundance hasn’t had a plethora of the late night bidding wars we used to see in the good old days of the festival, the weirdness of the Los Angeles fires and the advent o
Ira Sachs Sundance Movie ‘Peter Hujar's Day' Nabbed by Sideshow, Janus
After its Sundance Film Festival premiere, Ira Sachs' latest film, Peter Hujar's Day, has landed at specialty distributors Sideshow and Janus Films for North America. Peter Hujar's Day, which is next set to screen at the Berlin Film Festival,
'Peter Hujar's Day' review: Ira Sachs gently brings 1970s New York to life through a dramatic experiment
Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall co-star in this buzzy Sundance fave.
“In a Way This Film Asks, What is Lost by the Virtual?” Ira Sachs on his Sundance-Premiering Peter Hujar’s Day
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.
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Director Ira Sachs on Turning a Conversation Transcript Into Cinema: ‘What the Hell Do I Do with This?’
Ira Sachs discusses 'Peter Hujar's Day' and his challenge in making the transcript of a conversation cinematic.
Sideshow And Janus Films Take Sundance Ben Whishaw & Rebecca Hall Title ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights to Ira Sachs’ new movie Peter Hujar’s Day which made its world premiere in the Sundance Film Festival Premieres section. A fall theatrical release is planned.
‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Review: Ben Whishaw Plays the Noted New York Photographer in Ira Sachs’ Magical 1974 Time Capsule of a Movie
It's based on a transcript of Hujar's's description of what he did on one day, which in the film becomes anything but ordinary.
Peter Hujar’s Day Sundance Review — Ben Whishaw is Stunning in Ira Sachs’s Formal Experiment
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.
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Ira Sachs on Getting Dumped by His Manager, Working With Ben Whishaw and His Intimate Sundance Drama ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’
In 2008, Ira Sachs got fired by his manager. The most indie spirited of independent filmmakers had refused to play the game for too long, and the bill had finally come due. “I understood it in a ...
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Ben Whishaw and Ira Sachs Know ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ Could Have Been ‘Sort of Pretentious’ | Video
“Peter Hujar’s Day” reunites writer-director Ira Sachs with his “Passages” star Ben Whishaw, and Sachs revealed at TheWrap’s Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt that his latest ...