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NYFF: Peter Hujar’s Day is an Elegant and Melancholic Portrait of Titular Manhattan Cultural Photographer

©Courtesy of Janus Films Biopics thrive on their ability to see the ordinary in people as magical. The uniquely experimental new period docudrama, Peter Hujar’s Day, does just that by presenting the elegant titular character through melancholic subtext. Ira Sachs both wrote and directed the movie about the late cultural photographer. The filmmaker turned a…

Sundance Film Festival: ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ is a Surprisingly Interesting Dramatization of a Rather Banal Conversation

©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival. In 1974, photographer Peter Hujar sat down with his friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz, to tell her everything he did the day before, part of a planned book by Rosenkrantz speaking with all her well-connected friends about their daily lives. The book didn’t end up happening and apparently the tape of…