Peter Hujar's Day Blu-ray

'Peter Hujar's Day' Director: Ira Sachs (2025) Criterion Collection Blu-ray

A loving snapshot of a vanished New York, director Ira Sachs’s captivating cultural time capsule is a warm, witty, graceful re-creation of a real-life conversation that took place between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974. Starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall.

Peter Hujar’s Day eavesdrops on the two friends’ leisurely, affectionate hangout as Hujar recounts his previous day’s activities, offering insights into both his art and his everyday life. What emerges is a touching celebration of creativity, connection, and simply being present, made exceptionally vivid by Sachs’s cinematic flourishes and wonderfully tender performances from Whishaw and Hall.

Special features include:
- Meet the Filmmakers: Ira Sachs, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Images: Making “Peter Hujar’s Day,” a new documentary by Shuli Huang
- Notes by author and film curator Michael Koresky