This event is in the past.It took place on January 28, 2026 at Film Forum.

Drama Film
PETER HUJAR’S DAY 1
PETER HUJAR’S DAY 2
PETER HUJAR’S DAY 3
PETER HUJAR’S DAY 4
PETER HUJAR’S DAY 5

Peter Hujar’s Day

January 28 at 6:35pm

At Film Forum

SoHo, New York

🎬"the best film in Sundance is just two people talking" (Vulture)
📚"most evocative of the 70s downtown art scene since Just Kids" (Hollywood Reporter)
🍰"cranberry walnut cake was just divine"

Ben Whishaw mesmerizes as photographer Peter Hujar recounting a single day—studio mishaps, a Sontag phone call, money worries—to a friend in her East Village apartment. Ira Sachs turns verbatim conversation into unexpectedly riveting cinema.

Intimate character study
1970s NYC artists
Q&A with director