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Ira Sachs on Getting Dumped by His Manager, Working With Ben Whishaw and His Intimate Sundance Drama ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’
Ira Sachs discusses his collaboration with Ben Whishaw,, getting fired by his manager and his new Sundance drama 'Peter Hujar's Day'
The movie centers on an extended conversation between Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), a brilliant, but struggling photographer, and his close friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), who recorded their talk for an art project. But Sachs worried that the film, a two-character drama that moves from the kitchen of a New York City apartment to its living room to its bedroom, with a few fleeting rooftop interludes, might not have enough action to sustain itself. So he went back to some of the films that inspired him, such as Christopher Münch’s “The Hours and Times,” a fictionalized look at a real holiday taken by John Lennon and manager Brian Epstein, and the work of Chantal Akerman.
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