Culture | The Guardian USReality winners: the rise and rise of the ‘verbatim’ movie https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jan/30/reality-winners-verbatim-movie-hind-rajab-peter-hujar #Film #PeterHujar #RealityWinner #DramaFilms #Stage #DocumentaryFilms #ArtAndDesign #Culture #UsNews
dounowhoiam.bsky.socialWatching #IraSachs' biographical drama #PeterHujar’sDay at #HOMEmcr starring #BenWhishaw as #PeterHujar and #RebeccaHall as #LindaRosenkrantz - who wrote the book this film is based on.
Pao_1Oddly enthralling and beautifully shot.
Winshaw and Hall are just perfect. And New York is New York.
Peter Hujar's Day, Ira Sachs
7/10
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‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/16/ben-whishaw-interview-peter-hujar-day #Artanddesign #RebeccaHall #Photography #BenWhishaw #PeterHujar #Dramafilms #Biopics #Culture #Film #Art
‘To be really successful, you have to be sexy in a straight way’: Ben Whishaw on libidinous New York and playing Peter Hujar
Peter Hujar captured a queer Manhattan demi-monde that is now lost to Aids. Whishaw reveals what he learned playing the photographer in a minimalist film being hailed by some as a masterpiece
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The New Yorker“Peter Hujar’s Day” Gives the Past a New Life
‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2025/may/13/linda-rosenkrantz-peter-hujar-rebecca-hall-ben-whishaw-drugs-orgies #Artanddesign #Photography #PeterHujar #Culture #NewYork #Fiction #Film #Art
‘I invited a dozen ex-boyfriends to dinner and taped it’: the amazing avant garde recordings of Linda Rosenkrantz
As her tape-recorder adventures are brought to the screen by Rebecca Hall and Ben Whishaw, the 90-year-old remembers how she got the NY art crowd – from Peter Hujar to Chuck Close – talking about drugs, orgies and psychoanalysis
Will Hopkins 🌈📸Peter Hujar's portrait of Bob Berg has been haunting me. Berg died around the same age as Hujar a little over a decade later. It's a gorgeous portrait, technically and artistically, and launched me into Berg's music.
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