The Ira Sachs historical drama PETER HUJAR’S DAY is set to make its SVOD debut later this month, arriving on The Criterion Channel on January 27th, 2026. The film world premiered at last year’s Sundance Film Festival before launching in US theaters on November 7th, 2025. It hit VOD and digital platforms on January 6th, 2026.
Peter Hujar’s Day is written and directed by Ira Sachs and stars Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall.
The film is a rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz. Their talk that day focused on a single 24 hours in the life of Hujar, the brilliant and famously uncompromising artist who was one of the most important figures in downtown New York’s legendary cultural scene of the 70s and 80s.
Set entirely in Linda’s Manhattan apartment, the film freely and imaginatively recreates that long-ago afternoon and the wonderfully discursive exchange between these two singular individuals. As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as well the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York, Peter Hujar’s Day transforms unexpectedly into a Bloomsday-like rumination on both an artist’s life and time itself.
Peter Hujar’s Day was recently nominated for 5 Film Independent Spirit Awards (the most for any film), including Best Feature, Best Director (Sachs), Best Lead Performance (Whishaw), Best Supporting Performance (Hall), and Best Cinematography (Alex Ashe).
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