"In a Way This Film Asks, What is Lost by the Virtual?" Ira Sachs on his Sundance-Premiering Peter Hujar's Day

Among the features premiering this year at the Sundance Film Festival, there are none -- on paper -- simpler than Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day. Arriving just two years after he premiered his Passages at the festival, Sachs reunites with actor Ben Whishaw for a picture that’s one 76-minute dialogue between two friends in a New York apartment in 1974. What’s more, that dialogue is not some dramatically sculptured theatrical two-hander building to third act epiphanies but, rather, a transc...