"Well, I often have a feeling that in my day nothing much happens - that I've wasted it..." Janus Films has unveiled the official trailer for an indie film titled Peter Hujar's Day, the latest film by prolific filmmaker Ira Sachs. This premiered at both the 2025 Sundance & Berlin Film Festivals, and has played at the Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Shanghai Film Festivals as well. Based on a true story and a real day spent together. The film is one long conversation between photographer Peter Hujar and Linda Rosenkrantz in 1974 - and it sheds light on New York's vibrant downtown art world and the introspective journey of an artist's life. Starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall. Featuring gorgeous cinematography by Alex Ashe. "As the photographer vividly describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg & Susan Sontag, as well the challenges of living on limited financial resources in 70s New York,...
- 8/12/2025
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Passages and Love Is Strange director Ira Sachs returned to the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to debut Peter Hujar’s Day, a drama starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, depicting a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar and writer Linda Rosenkrantz. Ahead of its New York Film Festival premiere and November 7 release from Janus Films, the first trailer and poster have now arrived.
Kent M. Wilhelm said in his review, “When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen Ginsburg, taken on December 18, 1974, it’s strikingly nonchalant. Ginsberg is standing on the sidewalk, one hand in pocket and the other looped through the straps of a bag draped on his shoulder. He’s looking right down the barrel of the lens with an “okay, you’re taking my picture” expression on his face. Ginsberg is perhaps the most recognizable name to come out of the...
Kent M. Wilhelm said in his review, “When I look at Peter Hujar’s portrait of poet Allen Ginsburg, taken on December 18, 1974, it’s strikingly nonchalant. Ginsberg is standing on the sidewalk, one hand in pocket and the other looped through the straps of a bag draped on his shoulder. He’s looking right down the barrel of the lens with an “okay, you’re taking my picture” expression on his face. Ginsberg is perhaps the most recognizable name to come out of the...
- 8/12/2025
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
One of our favorite movies of Sundance 2025 was a quiet and introspective two-hander from director Ira Sachs that plays more like a documentary than a biopic and even clocks in at a brisk 75 minutes. It’s “Peter Hujar’s Day,” and Janus Films has released the first trailer for the film ahead of its theatrical release this November.
Sachs’ film stars Ben Whishaw as photographer Peter Hujar and Rebecca Hall as journalist Linda Rosenkrantz, and though the film occurs entirely within Rosenkrantz’s apartment and is merely a long conversation between two friends, the film transports viewers back to 1974 New York City with this intimate and deeply personal peeling back of the curtain on the art scene of the day.
Our critic Ryan Lattanzio admired the film’s minimalism, its craft, and its acting prowess, all while acknowledging that it is one of Sachs’ quietest and least commercial offerings. “The film is a lolling,...
Sachs’ film stars Ben Whishaw as photographer Peter Hujar and Rebecca Hall as journalist Linda Rosenkrantz, and though the film occurs entirely within Rosenkrantz’s apartment and is merely a long conversation between two friends, the film transports viewers back to 1974 New York City with this intimate and deeply personal peeling back of the curtain on the art scene of the day.
Our critic Ryan Lattanzio admired the film’s minimalism, its craft, and its acting prowess, all while acknowledging that it is one of Sachs’ quietest and least commercial offerings. “The film is a lolling,...
- 8/12/2025
- by Brian Welk
- Indiewire
Ahead of the 63rd New York Film Festival kicking off next month, taking place September 26 through October 13, the Main Slate has now been unveiled, featuring 34 of the most acclaimed and anticipated films of the year.
Highlights include the world premieres of Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai and the previously announced Bradly Cooper’s Is This Thing On? as Closing Night, alongside new films by Bi Gan, Kelly Reichardt, Kathryn Bigelow, Lucrecia Martel, Christian Petzold, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Joachim Trier, Oliver Laxe, Kent Jones, Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Pietro Marcello, Laura Poitras, and more.
NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim stated: “Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today. Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal,...
Highlights include the world premieres of Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai and the previously announced Bradly Cooper’s Is This Thing On? as Closing Night, alongside new films by Bi Gan, Kelly Reichardt, Kathryn Bigelow, Lucrecia Martel, Christian Petzold, Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Joachim Trier, Oliver Laxe, Kent Jones, Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Pietro Marcello, Laura Poitras, and more.
NYFF Artistic Director Dennis Lim stated: “Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today. Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal,...
- 8/5/2025
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
George Clooney’s “Jay Kelly,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value” and Park Chan-wook’s “No Other Choice” have been added to the New York Film Festival lineup.
This year’s main slate will showcase 34 films, including Cannes prizewinners, Sundance darlings and Venice premieres.
“Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today,” said NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim. “Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal, expressions of unease and joy, feats of imagination and commemoration. I am particularly struck by the diversity of approaches and forms among the films in this Main Slate, which affirms that the art of cinema is more than capable of thriving, even in difficult times.”
As previously announced, New York Film Festival will open on Sept.
This year’s main slate will showcase 34 films, including Cannes prizewinners, Sundance darlings and Venice premieres.
“Anyone who cares about film knows that it is an art in need of defending, like many of our core values today,” said NYFF artistic director Dennis Lim. “Across all sections of the festival, the movies we have selected this year suggest that this safeguarding can take many guises: acts of rejuvenation and refusal, expressions of unease and joy, feats of imagination and commemoration. I am particularly struck by the diversity of approaches and forms among the films in this Main Slate, which affirms that the art of cinema is more than capable of thriving, even in difficult times.”
As previously announced, New York Film Festival will open on Sept.
- 8/5/2025
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
‘The Secret Agent’, ‘A House Of Dynamite’, ‘Kontinental ’25’ among New York Film Festival main slate
New York Film Festival (September 26-October 13) has announced the main slate for its 63rd edition, with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind on the roster.
Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?
As also previously announced,...
Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?
As also previously announced,...
- 8/5/2025
- ScreenDaily
New York Film Festival, has unveiled the Main Slate of its 63rd edition with prize winners from top fests led by Cannes from Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (Palme d’Or) and Joachim Trier’s Sentimental Value (Grand Prix) to Oliver Laxe’s Sirât and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling (joint Jury Prize winners), Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection (Special Award).
From Berlin, Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Silver Bear for best leading performance for Rose Byrne) and Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 (Silver Bear for best screenplay). Eleven Main Slate films are set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Kent Jones’s Late Fame and Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice.
NYFF’s 34 Main Slate films from 26 countries feature two world premieres,...
From Berlin, Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (Silver Bear for best leading performance for Rose Byrne) and Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25 (Silver Bear for best screenplay). Eleven Main Slate films are set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival including Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Kent Jones’s Late Fame and Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice.
NYFF’s 34 Main Slate films from 26 countries feature two world premieres,...
- 8/5/2025
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
After steadily rolling out some of its gala heavy-hitters, the New York Film Festival has today announced its full main slate lineup, including new films from Claire Denis, Park Chan-wook, Noah Baumbach, Kathryn Bigelow, Kahlil Joseph, Joachim Trier, Ira Sachs, and many more.
This year’s main slate includes films from 26 countries, among them two world premieres (including Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?” and Ulrich Köhler’s “Gavagai”), plus eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres.
The festival has also programmed a number of hits from other fests, including Cannes prizewinners like Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection.” Berlin and Sundance hits are also on offer, including Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25.
This year’s main slate includes films from 26 countries, among them two world premieres (including Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?” and Ulrich Köhler’s “Gavagai”), plus eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres.
The festival has also programmed a number of hits from other fests, including Cannes prizewinners like Jafar Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident,” Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât,” Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling,” Kleber Mendonça Filho’s “The Secret Agent,” and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection.” Berlin and Sundance hits are also on offer, including Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Radu Jude’s “Kontinental ’25.
- 8/5/2025
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
New York Film Festival (September 26-October 13) has announced the main slate for its 63rd edition, with Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House Of Dynamite, and Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind on the roster.
Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?
As also previously announced,...
Radu Jude’s Kontinental ’25, Claire Denis’ The Fence, Kent Jones’s Late Fame, and Bi Gan’s Resurrection are also in the 34-strong line-up, alongside Ulrich Köhler’s Gavagai – a metacinema centred on a production of Medea –one of two world premieres in selection alongside Bradley Cooper’s previously announced closing night film Is This Thing On?
As also previously announced,...
- 8/5/2025
- ScreenDaily
The 63rd New York Film Festival’s Main Slate will include new films from Noah Baumbach, Jafar Panahi, Kathryn Bigelow, Park Chan-wook and more. Film at Lincoln center announced the 34 Main Slate films Tuesday.
The movies come from 26 countries and include two world, eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres. Some titles will first debut at other festivals. Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” Park’s “No Other Choice” and Kent Jones’ “Late Fame” are all playing the 82nd Venice Film Festival before crossing the Atlantic to New York City.
Cannes winners in the Main Slate include Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner “It Was Just an Accident”; Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” which took the Grand Prix; Jury Prize winners Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” and Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling”; Best Director- and Best Actor-winning “The Secret Agent” from Kleber Mendonça Filho; and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,...
The movies come from 26 countries and include two world, eight North American and 13 U.S. premieres. Some titles will first debut at other festivals. Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite,” Park’s “No Other Choice” and Kent Jones’ “Late Fame” are all playing the 82nd Venice Film Festival before crossing the Atlantic to New York City.
Cannes winners in the Main Slate include Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or winner “It Was Just an Accident”; Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” which took the Grand Prix; Jury Prize winners Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” and Mascha Schilinski’s “Sound of Falling”; Best Director- and Best Actor-winning “The Secret Agent” from Kleber Mendonça Filho; and Bi Gan’s “Resurrection,...
- 8/5/2025
- by Missy Schwartz
- The Wrap
The awards circuit is making a key stop in the Big Apple this year.
On Tuesday, the New York Film Festival announced 34 films for their main slate lineup.
The Main Slate will showcase films from 26 countries, featuring two world premieres, eight North American premieres, and 13 U.S. premieres, including award‑winning titles from Cannes and Berlin. The lineup includes Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival) and Rose Byrne, recipient of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at the 2025 Berlinale for Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
Also featured is Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, which is set to premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival before releasing on Netflix.
The festival has also added the world premieres of Nothing Is Lost, Ben Stiller’s documentary about his parents,...
On Tuesday, the New York Film Festival announced 34 films for their main slate lineup.
The Main Slate will showcase films from 26 countries, featuring two world premieres, eight North American premieres, and 13 U.S. premieres, including award‑winning titles from Cannes and Berlin. The lineup includes Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident (winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival) and Rose Byrne, recipient of the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance at the 2025 Berlinale for Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You.
Also featured is Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler, which is set to premiere in competition at the Venice Film Festival before releasing on Netflix.
The festival has also added the world premieres of Nothing Is Lost, Ben Stiller’s documentary about his parents,...
- 8/5/2025
- by Mia McNiece
- Gold Derby
The Champs-Elysees Film Festival, created by distributor-exhibitor Sophie Dulac in 2012 to build a bridge between French and American film industries and cultures, is shuttering after 14 editions.
Dulac’s decision to end the festival comes on the heels of a tumultuous 14th edition, which ran June 17-23 and saw the 10 members of its two main juries (notably filmmaker Alice Winocour) stepping down in reaction to a pair of investigative articles published in Le Monde and Liberation reporting toxic management over at Dulac’s companies. Dulac has denied the accusations.
The festival has also faced a crisis in recent years due to the successive closure of movie theaters alongside the famed Champs Elysée Avenue and rising competition from other fests such as Deauville, which are courting French and American talent and movies.
In a statement on Wednesday, Dulac said, “It is with great emotion that I announce the end of the Champs-Élysées...
Dulac’s decision to end the festival comes on the heels of a tumultuous 14th edition, which ran June 17-23 and saw the 10 members of its two main juries (notably filmmaker Alice Winocour) stepping down in reaction to a pair of investigative articles published in Le Monde and Liberation reporting toxic management over at Dulac’s companies. Dulac has denied the accusations.
The festival has also faced a crisis in recent years due to the successive closure of movie theaters alongside the famed Champs Elysée Avenue and rising competition from other fests such as Deauville, which are courting French and American talent and movies.
In a statement on Wednesday, Dulac said, “It is with great emotion that I announce the end of the Champs-Élysées...
- 7/11/2025
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
French distributor and exhibitor Sophie Dulac has announced the end of the Champs-Élysées Film Festival championing independent American and French cinema, following a tumultuous 14th edition in June in the wake of accusations of deteriorating staff conditions at her cinema group.
In a statement, Dulac said she had taken the “difficult decision” to stop the festival, thanking past cinema professionals, partners and members of the public who had supported the event.
She cited press reports and attacks, with “heavy consequences”, in the lead up to the festival as well as the progressive closure of cinemas on the Champs-Élysées, and a lack of financial support as the reasons.
Dulac’s decision follows a rocky edition for the festival in the wake of the firing in early June of Jean-Marc Zekri as the long-time director of the Reflet Médicis Cinema in Paris’ Latin Quarter, one of five theaters in the Dulac Cinémas network.
In a statement, Dulac said she had taken the “difficult decision” to stop the festival, thanking past cinema professionals, partners and members of the public who had supported the event.
She cited press reports and attacks, with “heavy consequences”, in the lead up to the festival as well as the progressive closure of cinemas on the Champs-Élysées, and a lack of financial support as the reasons.
Dulac’s decision follows a rocky edition for the festival in the wake of the firing in early June of Jean-Marc Zekri as the long-time director of the Reflet Médicis Cinema in Paris’ Latin Quarter, one of five theaters in the Dulac Cinémas network.
- 7/10/2025
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Just before the horizon of AIDS’ onset in the early 1980s, Frank Ripploh made his autobiographical directing debut about a very sexually active gay schoolteacher with “Taxi zum Klo.” A favorite of Gus Van Sant, Ira Sachs, and Bruce Labruce, the 1981-made, sexually explicit, and West Berlin-set portrait of queer life demonstrates more idyllic time and place for it — while not skimping on graphic (and unsimulated) sex acts and dicks up on screen, of course.
This year marks the 45th anniversary, and distributor Altered Innocence is re-releasing “Taxi zum Klo” in 4K. It’s launching August 1 at Metrograph in New York as part of the series “The Many Faces of Frank Ripploh.” Below, IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for “Taxi zum Klo” in 4K.
More about the film courtesy of the distributor: “By day, Frank is a dedicated schoolteacher. By night, he embraces the sexual freedoms of the city’s...
This year marks the 45th anniversary, and distributor Altered Innocence is re-releasing “Taxi zum Klo” in 4K. It’s launching August 1 at Metrograph in New York as part of the series “The Many Faces of Frank Ripploh.” Below, IndieWire shares the exclusive trailer for “Taxi zum Klo” in 4K.
More about the film courtesy of the distributor: “By day, Frank is a dedicated schoolteacher. By night, he embraces the sexual freedoms of the city’s...
- 7/9/2025
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Janus Films will release Peter Hujar’s Day, the latest feature from Ira Sachs (Passages), in North America on November 7.
The film debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it screened in the Premieres section before heading to the Berlinale. The film stars Ben Whishaw in the titular role and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, who wrote the book on which the film is based.
Described as a “cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Hujar and writer Rosenkrantz,” the film follows 24 hours in the life of Hujar, 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 recreates that afternoon and the discursive exchange between the two. The photographer describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as...
The film debuted at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where it screened in the Premieres section before heading to the Berlinale. The film stars Ben Whishaw in the titular role and Rebecca Hall as Linda Rosenkrantz, who wrote the book on which the film is based.
Described as a “cinematic rendering of a conversation recorded in 1974 between photographer Hujar and writer Rosenkrantz,” the film follows 24 hours in the life of Hujar, 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 recreates that afternoon and the discursive exchange between the two. The photographer describes interactions with leading cultural figures of the day, including Allen Ginsberg and Susan Sontag, as...
- 7/9/2025
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
The 59th edition of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) will feature key Cannes Film Festival winners in its Horizons section and a selection of action and horror movies, both new and older, for its revamped Midnight Screenings program under the new name “Afterhours.”
In a lineup update unveiled on Friday, Kviff said it will this year screen more than 130 feature films in the picturesque Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.
The Horizons lineup, which traditionally features highlights from the festival circuit of the past year, includes the likes of Jay Duplass’ The Baltimorons, Tom Shoval’s A Letter to David, Michel Franco’s Dreams, My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr., Mary Bronstein‘s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, Jafar Panahi‘s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, and fellow Cannes...
In a lineup update unveiled on Friday, Kviff said it will this year screen more than 130 feature films in the picturesque Czech spa town of Karlovy Vary.
The Horizons lineup, which traditionally features highlights from the festival circuit of the past year, includes the likes of Jay Duplass’ The Baltimorons, Tom Shoval’s A Letter to David, Michel Franco’s Dreams, My Father’s Shadow by Akinola Davies Jr., Mary Bronstein‘s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors, Jafar Panahi‘s Cannes Palme d’Or winner It Was Just an Accident, and fellow Cannes...
- 6/20/2025
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
This episode reflects on how Brazilian and Portuguese cinemas serve as a bridge between Latin America and Europe.Rui Poças is an acclaimed Portuguese cinematographer best known for his long-standing collaborations with two key figures of contemporary Portuguese cinema: Miguel Gomes and João Pedro Rodrigues. Since working on their respective debuts—The Face You Deserve (2004) and O Fantasma (2000)—Poças has lensed such acclaimed films as Our Beloved Month of August (2008), Tabu (2012), The Ornithologist (2016), Will-o’-the-Wisp (2022), and most recently Grand Tour (2024), which won Best Director at Cannes Film Festival.His distinctive visual style has also shaped important works by leading voices in Latin America, Europe, and the US, including Zama (2017) by Lucrecia Martel, Good Manners (2017) by Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra, Frankie (2019) by Ira Sachs, and The Rye Horn (2023) by Jaione Camborda.Rachel Daisy Ellis is a producer originally from England who relocated to Brazil in 2004. For over a decade, she has...
- 6/10/2025
- MUBI
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Hot Milk, Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day and James Griffiths’ The Ballad Of Wallis Island are among the 28 features programmed for the third edition of Malta’s Mediterrane Film Festival (June 21-29).
The festival has programmed 10 films in its main competition strand; with 12 out of competition titles; and six films in the environmentally-focused Mare Nostrum section.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The festival will also present an honorary Golden Bee lifetime achievement award to UK producer Jeremy Thomas.
Thomas will participate in a masterclass conversation with Film London chief executive Adrian Wootton.
Other...
The festival has programmed 10 films in its main competition strand; with 12 out of competition titles; and six films in the environmentally-focused Mare Nostrum section.
Scroll down for the full list of titles
The festival will also present an honorary Golden Bee lifetime achievement award to UK producer Jeremy Thomas.
Thomas will participate in a masterclass conversation with Film London chief executive Adrian Wootton.
Other...
- 5/31/2025
- ScreenDaily
Mubi’s June 2025 selections have arrived, featuring the previously announced mammoth drop of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s Twin Peaks: Season 1 & 2 and Twin Peaks: The Return. Additional highlights include Trương Minh Quý’s acclaimed second feature Việt and Nam, plus films by Gregg Araki, Ira Sachs, Alain Guiraudie, and Michael Almereyda.
Luke Hicks said in his review of Trương Minh Quý’s Cannes and NYFF selection, “The opening shot of Việt and Nam, writer-director Trương Minh Quý’s sophomore film, is a feat of cinematic restraint. Nearly imperceivable white specs of dust begin to appear, few and far between, drifting from the top of a pitch-black screen to the bottom, where the faintest trace of something can be made out in the swallowing darkness. The sound design is cavernous and close, heaving with breath and trickling with the noise of running water. A boy incrementally appears, walking gradually from...
Luke Hicks said in his review of Trương Minh Quý’s Cannes and NYFF selection, “The opening shot of Việt and Nam, writer-director Trương Minh Quý’s sophomore film, is a feat of cinematic restraint. Nearly imperceivable white specs of dust begin to appear, few and far between, drifting from the top of a pitch-black screen to the bottom, where the faintest trace of something can be made out in the swallowing darkness. The sound design is cavernous and close, heaving with breath and trickling with the noise of running water. A boy incrementally appears, walking gradually from...
- 5/19/2025
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
More than 350 film world figures, including Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon and Javier Bardem, have published an open letter on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival condemning “silence” over the deadly impact of Israel’s ongoing military campaign in Gaza.
The letter, published on the website of France’s Libération newspaper on Monday evening, was headed “In Cannes, the horror Gaza must not be silenced”. It was addressed “For Fatem”, in memory of 25-year-old Gaza artist and photojournalist Fatima Hassouna.
The young woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike in mid-April just 24 hours after it was announced a documentary exploring her life in the Gaza Strip would world premiere in the Cannes. Ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed in same strike.
“She was a Palestinian freelance photojournalist. She was targeted by the Israeli army on 16 April, 2025, the day after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi’s...
The letter, published on the website of France’s Libération newspaper on Monday evening, was headed “In Cannes, the horror Gaza must not be silenced”. It was addressed “For Fatem”, in memory of 25-year-old Gaza artist and photojournalist Fatima Hassouna.
The young woman was killed in an Israeli airstrike in mid-April just 24 hours after it was announced a documentary exploring her life in the Gaza Strip would world premiere in the Cannes. Ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed in same strike.
“She was a Palestinian freelance photojournalist. She was targeted by the Israeli army on 16 April, 2025, the day after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi’s...
- 5/12/2025
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Actress and producer Alysia Reiner has signed with Fusion Entertainment.
Reiner is best known for playing Natalie “Fig” Figueroa on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” earning a SAG Award as part of the ensemble.
On screen, she also appeared in the Oscar-winning “Sideways” and most recently was featured in Joanna Arnow’s critically acclaimed “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” which premiered at Cannes and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Her television portfolio includes over 150 episodes and performances in series including five seasons of FX’s “Better Things,” two seasons of HBO’s “The Deuce,” “How to Get Away with Murder” opposite Viola Davis, two seasons of “Shining Vale” with Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, and Netflix’s political thriller “The Diplomat,” now filming its third season. Reiner also played Agent Sadie Deever in Marvel’s “Ms. Marvel.”
“Alysia’s body of...
Reiner is best known for playing Natalie “Fig” Figueroa on Netflix’s “Orange is the New Black,” earning a SAG Award as part of the ensemble.
On screen, she also appeared in the Oscar-winning “Sideways” and most recently was featured in Joanna Arnow’s critically acclaimed “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” which premiered at Cannes and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award.
Her television portfolio includes over 150 episodes and performances in series including five seasons of FX’s “Better Things,” two seasons of HBO’s “The Deuce,” “How to Get Away with Murder” opposite Viola Davis, two seasons of “Shining Vale” with Courteney Cox and Greg Kinnear, and Netflix’s political thriller “The Diplomat,” now filming its third season. Reiner also played Agent Sadie Deever in Marvel’s “Ms. Marvel.”
“Alysia’s body of...
- 5/9/2025
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Producer-writer-director Collin Curtis has officially launched Beverly Hills-based production company Caravanserai Pictures and revealed it is partnering with Buffalo 8.
Under the partnership, Caravanserai Pictures and distribution and production outfit Buffalo 8, a BondIt Media Capital company, will develop and package a slate of seven feature films, with in-house screenwriting and IP under Curtis’s creative direction.
“We are more than excited about our launch and partnership with Buffalo 8,” said Curtis. “We are inspired by their commitment to emerging talent, which aligns well with our culture.”
“Supporting independent filmmaking at this level is what Buffalo 8 is all about, and Caravanserai Pictures is exactly the kind of partner we want to be in business with,“ said Adam Harris Engelhard, Head of Production at Buffalo 8.
Curtis started building Caravanserai Pictures late last year with the aim of bringing together a diverse team of industry professionals. Its name reflects this desire, taking inspiration from...
Under the partnership, Caravanserai Pictures and distribution and production outfit Buffalo 8, a BondIt Media Capital company, will develop and package a slate of seven feature films, with in-house screenwriting and IP under Curtis’s creative direction.
“We are more than excited about our launch and partnership with Buffalo 8,” said Curtis. “We are inspired by their commitment to emerging talent, which aligns well with our culture.”
“Supporting independent filmmaking at this level is what Buffalo 8 is all about, and Caravanserai Pictures is exactly the kind of partner we want to be in business with,“ said Adam Harris Engelhard, Head of Production at Buffalo 8.
Curtis started building Caravanserai Pictures late last year with the aim of bringing together a diverse team of industry professionals. Its name reflects this desire, taking inspiration from...
- 5/6/2025
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Fusion Entertainment has signed actor and filmmaker Jack Haven (formerly known as Brigette Lundy-Paine) for management.
Haven recently garnered Gotham and Independent Spirit Award nominations for their role in Jane Schoenbrun’s feature, I Saw The TV Glow.
Best known for their breakout role as Casey Gardner in the hit Netflix series Atypical, Haven’s past credits also include Bombshell (2019), where they played Megyn Kelly’s anxious assistant, and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), portraying Billi Logan, Ted’s daughter, in the beloved sci-fi comedy franchise. They also appear in Gabriel Abrantes’ surrealist horror film, Amelia’s Children.
Haven recently completed their feature directorial debut, October Crow. They also serve as the creative director of art and fashion publication Waif Magazine.
“Jack Haven is an artist of remarkable depth and vision,” said Chris Evans, Co-Founder of Fusion Entertainment. “From their fearless performances to their innovative work as a filmmaker and creative director,...
Haven recently garnered Gotham and Independent Spirit Award nominations for their role in Jane Schoenbrun’s feature, I Saw The TV Glow.
Best known for their breakout role as Casey Gardner in the hit Netflix series Atypical, Haven’s past credits also include Bombshell (2019), where they played Megyn Kelly’s anxious assistant, and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020), portraying Billi Logan, Ted’s daughter, in the beloved sci-fi comedy franchise. They also appear in Gabriel Abrantes’ surrealist horror film, Amelia’s Children.
Haven recently completed their feature directorial debut, October Crow. They also serve as the creative director of art and fashion publication Waif Magazine.
“Jack Haven is an artist of remarkable depth and vision,” said Chris Evans, Co-Founder of Fusion Entertainment. “From their fearless performances to their innovative work as a filmmaker and creative director,...
- 4/4/2025
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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This April, Max is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of the post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us to the streaming release of Nicole Kidman‘s erotic thriller film Babygirl. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Max next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 5 best films coming to Max in April 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.
Aftersun (April 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Credit – A24
Aftersun is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Charlotte Wells. The 2022 film follows Sophie Patterson as she reflects on the last she took with her father at the age of 11-year-old at a fading resort. Sophie tries to come to terms with the image of her...
This April, Max is bringing you a lot of entertainment, from the highly anticipated return of the post-apocalyptic drama series The Last of Us to the streaming release of Nicole Kidman‘s erotic thriller film Babygirl. However, for the purposes of this article, we are only including the films that are coming to Max next month and have a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score. So, check out the 5 best films coming to Max in April 2025 with a 90% or higher Rotten Tomatoes score.
Aftersun (April 1) Rotten Tomatoes Score: 95% Credit – A24
Aftersun is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama film written and directed by Charlotte Wells. The 2022 film follows Sophie Patterson as she reflects on the last she took with her father at the age of 11-year-old at a fading resort. Sophie tries to come to terms with the image of her...
- 3/30/2025
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Fusion Entertainment has signed actor and producer Sophie von Haselberg for management. Von Haselberg is the daughter of Bette Midler and has performed in television, film, and theater. Her notable appearances on TV and streaming include roles in several Ryan Murphy productions including “Pose,” “Versace: American Crime Story,” “American Horror Story” and “Halston.”
She made her feature film debut in Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” and went on to appear in Sony Pictures Classic’s “Equity.” She recently starred in the romcom “Love…Reconsidered” from Carol Ray Hartsell and also starred in the one-woman film “Give Me Pity!” directed by Amanda Kramer.
Von Haselberg will next appear in Amanda Kramer’s “By Design,” Matthew Shear’s “Fantasy Life” and the short film “Poreless,” directed by Harris Doran. She also recently starred in the world premiere of Nathan Englander’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” at...
She made her feature film debut in Woody Allen’s “Irrational Man” and went on to appear in Sony Pictures Classic’s “Equity.” She recently starred in the romcom “Love…Reconsidered” from Carol Ray Hartsell and also starred in the one-woman film “Give Me Pity!” directed by Amanda Kramer.
Von Haselberg will next appear in Amanda Kramer’s “By Design,” Matthew Shear’s “Fantasy Life” and the short film “Poreless,” directed by Harris Doran. She also recently starred in the world premiere of Nathan Englander’s “What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank” at...
- 3/25/2025
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Films Boutique has acquired international rights to Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall.
Peter Hujar’s Day world premiered at Sundance and had its international premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
The film marks the second collaboration between Berlin-based Films Boutique and Ira Sachs after 2012’s Keep The Lights On.
Sbs, a regular collaborator of Ira Sachs, was involved in Peter Hujar’s Day on the sales side at an early stage. Sideshow and Janus Films acquired North American rights just before Berlin.
Peter Hujar’s Day is based on a recorded conversation in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar,...
Peter Hujar’s Day world premiered at Sundance and had its international premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
The film marks the second collaboration between Berlin-based Films Boutique and Ira Sachs after 2012’s Keep The Lights On.
Sbs, a regular collaborator of Ira Sachs, was involved in Peter Hujar’s Day on the sales side at an early stage. Sideshow and Janus Films acquired North American rights just before Berlin.
Peter Hujar’s Day is based on a recorded conversation in 1974 between photographer Peter Hujar,...
- 3/20/2025
- ScreenDaily
If you have never heard about the Luxembourg City Film Festival before, it may surprise you to know that the biggest annual film event in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, which is surrounded by France, Germany and Belgium, is turning 15 this year.
Long considered a hidden gem on the global fest circuit, the event has steadily gained in stature, routinely attracting big industry names to a country with a population of only around 670,000. Just take last year as an example, when the fest set an attendance record with a 10 percent increase to 19,962. For its 2024, LuxFilmFest, it attracted the likes of Viggo Mortensen, Chinese director Wang Bing, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, French director Gaspar Noé — who hosted a retrospective and a masterclass — and a jury that included Luxembourg star Vicky Krieps, German actor Sebastian Koch, and U.S. director Ira Sachs.
For this year’s 15th edition, which kicks off on Thursday,...
Long considered a hidden gem on the global fest circuit, the event has steadily gained in stature, routinely attracting big industry names to a country with a population of only around 670,000. Just take last year as an example, when the fest set an attendance record with a 10 percent increase to 19,962. For its 2024, LuxFilmFest, it attracted the likes of Viggo Mortensen, Chinese director Wang Bing, Mauritanian director Abderrahmane Sissako, French director Gaspar Noé — who hosted a retrospective and a masterclass — and a jury that included Luxembourg star Vicky Krieps, German actor Sebastian Koch, and U.S. director Ira Sachs.
For this year’s 15th edition, which kicks off on Thursday,...
- 3/6/2025
- by Georg Szalai
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Juliette Binoche, Pedro Almodóvar and Mohammad Rasoulof have joined a campaign in support of persecuted Iranian filmmakers Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha.
The wife and husband directorial duo have been in the crosshairs of Iran’s authoritarian Islamic Republic regime since 2023 over their feature film My Favourite Cake, which world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2024.
The heartwarming story of love and loss revolves around 70-year-old widow, played by Lily Farhadpour, who reconnects with life’s small pleasures in the face of solitude, following her husband’s death.
The Iranian authorities are unhappy with the film because it flies in the face of their sexist, draconian laws around what women should wear and how they should act, with the protagonist seen without a hijab head covering, sharing a drink with a suitor and dancing.
The Islamic Republic government slapped a travel ban on Moghadam and Sanaeeha, preventing any travel for the last two years,...
The wife and husband directorial duo have been in the crosshairs of Iran’s authoritarian Islamic Republic regime since 2023 over their feature film My Favourite Cake, which world premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2024.
The heartwarming story of love and loss revolves around 70-year-old widow, played by Lily Farhadpour, who reconnects with life’s small pleasures in the face of solitude, following her husband’s death.
The Iranian authorities are unhappy with the film because it flies in the face of their sexist, draconian laws around what women should wear and how they should act, with the protagonist seen without a hijab head covering, sharing a drink with a suitor and dancing.
The Islamic Republic government slapped a travel ban on Moghadam and Sanaeeha, preventing any travel for the last two years,...
- 2/28/2025
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Ira Sachs has a sneaky way of building a rapport between his co-stars.
“He does this thing where he introduces the two actors, usually at a cafe or restaurant, and then he just leaves you so you’re forced to talk,” Ben Whishaw tells The Hollywood Reporter about the American filmmaker. The British star was plunged into this exact scenario with fellow Brit Rebecca Hall — the pair are starring in Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, getting its international premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
“We just talked for hours at this diner in New York, and it was so nice,” recalls Whishaw, star of Black Doves, Paddington and the James Bond franchise. “It sounds like it could be a horrible thing, but it was a lovely thing. You end up going beyond the politeness of what you might just do if you met each other on a film set.
“He does this thing where he introduces the two actors, usually at a cafe or restaurant, and then he just leaves you so you’re forced to talk,” Ben Whishaw tells The Hollywood Reporter about the American filmmaker. The British star was plunged into this exact scenario with fellow Brit Rebecca Hall — the pair are starring in Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day, getting its international premiere in the Berlinale’s Panorama section.
“We just talked for hours at this diner in New York, and it was so nice,” recalls Whishaw, star of Black Doves, Paddington and the James Bond franchise. “It sounds like it could be a horrible thing, but it was a lovely thing. You end up going beyond the politeness of what you might just do if you met each other on a film set.
- 2/15/2025
- by Lily Ford
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Ben Whishaw isn’t averse to juggling multiple and very different projects, but even he admits there was a point last year when things reached near farcical levels.
Around the same time he was shooting Netflix’s pulpy spy thriller series “Black Doves,” playing a contract killer with a conscience alongside Keira Knightley, he was recording the voice of Paddington Bear for the marmalade lover’s latest family adventure, “Paddington in Peru,” while also rehearsing for his lead role in a new West End adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s bleak tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot.”
“And all in one week! It was one of the strangest gear switches ever,” he says, speaking to Variety from his apartment in East London during a rare and brief period of rest for one of the U.K.’s most in-demand talents. “But it is nice to inhabit so many different worlds.”
Whishaw’s latest...
Around the same time he was shooting Netflix’s pulpy spy thriller series “Black Doves,” playing a contract killer with a conscience alongside Keira Knightley, he was recording the voice of Paddington Bear for the marmalade lover’s latest family adventure, “Paddington in Peru,” while also rehearsing for his lead role in a new West End adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s bleak tragicomedy “Waiting for Godot.”
“And all in one week! It was one of the strangest gear switches ever,” he says, speaking to Variety from his apartment in East London during a rare and brief period of rest for one of the U.K.’s most in-demand talents. “But it is nice to inhabit so many different worlds.”
Whishaw’s latest...
- 2/15/2025
- by Alex Ritman
- Variety Film + TV
Whishaw is not tested by this verbatim retelling of Hujar’s day in hip 1970s New York, recounting encounters with Ginsburg, Burroughs and Leibowitz
Peter Hujar was a brilliant photographer and stylish gay man of the 1970s and 80s, associated with Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe and part of a hip New York coterie of artists and intellectuals. In 1974, he took part in a kind of documentary nonfiction project undertaken by author Linda Rosenkrantz, in which he simply came to her apartment and recounted into a tape machine everything that happened to him on a certain day.
The tape is lost, but the typescript survived, published three years ago as Peter Hujar’s Day and now filmed by director Ira Sachs as a verbatim-cinema chamber piece entirely within Rosenkrantz’s apartment, sometimes in different rooms or pensively up on the roof looking out at the skyline, shot to make it...
Peter Hujar was a brilliant photographer and stylish gay man of the 1970s and 80s, associated with Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe and part of a hip New York coterie of artists and intellectuals. In 1974, he took part in a kind of documentary nonfiction project undertaken by author Linda Rosenkrantz, in which he simply came to her apartment and recounted into a tape machine everything that happened to him on a certain day.
The tape is lost, but the typescript survived, published three years ago as Peter Hujar’s Day and now filmed by director Ira Sachs as a verbatim-cinema chamber piece entirely within Rosenkrantz’s apartment, sometimes in different rooms or pensively up on the roof looking out at the skyline, shot to make it...
- 2/14/2025
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Every so often, a film needs to remind us that the rules aren’t really rules. Sure, it’s probably a bad idea to make a film that consists entirely of two characters in an apartment talking, especially if one guy does 95 percent of the talking. But if that guy is played by Ben Wishaw in a career-best performance, you might end up with a gem.
Writer/director Ira Sachs adapted Peter Hujar’s Day from a transcript of a 1974 interview with photographer Hujar by writer Linda Rosenkrantz in her New York City apartment. Rosenkrantz planned to make a book featuring a series of artists recounting what they did the day before each interview. She never finished it, and the recording of the interview was lost. (She released a standalone book on Hujar’s day in 2021.)
Watching this transcript brought to life, it’s clear that Rosenkrantz was onto something with her concept.
Writer/director Ira Sachs adapted Peter Hujar’s Day from a transcript of a 1974 interview with photographer Hujar by writer Linda Rosenkrantz in her New York City apartment. Rosenkrantz planned to make a book featuring a series of artists recounting what they did the day before each interview. She never finished it, and the recording of the interview was lost. (She released a standalone book on Hujar’s day in 2021.)
Watching this transcript brought to life, it’s clear that Rosenkrantz was onto something with her concept.
- 2/14/2025
- by Jeremy Mathews
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
When she was 16, Mala Emde liked to hang out in jazz bars and talk to strange men.
“I was a weird teenager,” says the German actress, now 28. “I think I was just scared of everything people my age were doing. There was something comforting for me in going to a jazz bar and talking to older, more experienced people about this music I knew nothing about.”
These days, when it comes to jazz, Emde can hold her own. In Köln 75, which has its world premiere on Feb.16 at the Berlin Film Festival as part of the Berlinale Special lineup, she plays the real-life Vera Brandes, another weird teenager with a taste for jazz bars. At 18, Brandes organized a concert in Cologne for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. The recording of Jarrett’s totally improvised performance became the best-selling solo jazz album of all time and the best-selling piano recording ever.
The...
“I was a weird teenager,” says the German actress, now 28. “I think I was just scared of everything people my age were doing. There was something comforting for me in going to a jazz bar and talking to older, more experienced people about this music I knew nothing about.”
These days, when it comes to jazz, Emde can hold her own. In Köln 75, which has its world premiere on Feb.16 at the Berlin Film Festival as part of the Berlinale Special lineup, she plays the real-life Vera Brandes, another weird teenager with a taste for jazz bars. At 18, Brandes organized a concert in Cologne for jazz pianist Keith Jarrett. The recording of Jarrett’s totally improvised performance became the best-selling solo jazz album of all time and the best-selling piano recording ever.
The...
- 2/13/2025
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Berlin Film Festival celebrates its 75th year with new leadership and fresh new cinema from around the world. New artistic director and former BFI London Film Festival leader Tricia Tuttle joins co-directors of programming Jacqueline Lyanga and Michael Stütz to help reposition the Berlinale’s profile among the great global film festivals and lure bigger-name filmmakers in the process.
That’s begun to pay off already this year, with new films from Germany’s own Tom Tykwer (supernatural opening night family drama epic “The Light”), Ira Sachs (“Peter Hujar’s Day”), Michel Gondry, Michel Franco (“Dreams”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), Richard Linklater (“Blue Moon”), Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”), and of course Bong Joon Ho (“Mickey 17”) sprinkled throughout the sections.
Meanwhile, Todd Haynes heads up the jury, which also includes filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, costume designer Bina Daigeler, actor Fan Bingbing,...
That’s begun to pay off already this year, with new films from Germany’s own Tom Tykwer (supernatural opening night family drama epic “The Light”), Ira Sachs (“Peter Hujar’s Day”), Michel Gondry, Michel Franco (“Dreams”), Radu Jude (“Kontinental ’25”), Richard Linklater (“Blue Moon”), Hong Sangsoo (“What Does That Nature Say to You”), Lucile Hadžihalilović (“The Ice Tower”), and of course Bong Joon Ho (“Mickey 17”) sprinkled throughout the sections.
Meanwhile, Todd Haynes heads up the jury, which also includes filmmaker Nabil Ayouch, costume designer Bina Daigeler, actor Fan Bingbing,...
- 2/12/2025
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Exclusive: Fusion Entertainment has signed actor, writer, and director Mary Neely for management, Deadline has learned.
Neely rose to prominence during the Covid lockdowns with her viral reenactments of love duets from classic musicals. Singing both the male and female parts, her lip-syncs caught the attention of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andrew Lloyd Webber and were named by The New York Times and The Washington Post as among The Best Theater of 2020.
Neely most recently completed production on 20th Century Studios’ untitled Bumble Movie opposite Lily James, Myha’la, Jackson White, and Dan Stevens, which is slated to premiere on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ in all other territories in 2025. She will also appear alongside Bob Odenkirk in Acting for a Cause’s rendition of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic The Room.
Next month, Neely will see the SXSW premiere of Stars Diner, an indie TV pilot that she co-wrote...
Neely rose to prominence during the Covid lockdowns with her viral reenactments of love duets from classic musicals. Singing both the male and female parts, her lip-syncs caught the attention of Lin-Manuel Miranda and Andrew Lloyd Webber and were named by The New York Times and The Washington Post as among The Best Theater of 2020.
Neely most recently completed production on 20th Century Studios’ untitled Bumble Movie opposite Lily James, Myha’la, Jackson White, and Dan Stevens, which is slated to premiere on Hulu in the U.S. and Disney+ in all other territories in 2025. She will also appear alongside Bob Odenkirk in Acting for a Cause’s rendition of Tommy Wiseau’s cult classic The Room.
Next month, Neely will see the SXSW premiere of Stars Diner, an indie TV pilot that she co-wrote...
- 2/4/2025
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
“Peter Hujar’s Day” has found a home.
The film, written and directed by Ira Sachs and starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, where it quickly became one of the most buzzed-about titles. On Tuesday, Sideshow and Janus Films revealed they have since acquired the North American rights for the film.
Sideshow and Janus Films are eying a fall theatrical release for the movie. Sbs is handling international sales for the film, with a deal negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with WME Independent. It will next screen at the Berlinale in Panorama.
“Peter Hujar’s Day” was produced by Jordan Drake and Jonah Disend, and co-produced by Fred Burle and Aaron Craig. The film is a Complementary Colors, Blink Productions & Primo Content Presentation in association with We Are Films & Materia Cinema, and a Jordan Drake & One Two Films Production based on the book...
The film, written and directed by Ira Sachs and starring Ben Whishaw and Rebecca Hall, made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival, where it quickly became one of the most buzzed-about titles. On Tuesday, Sideshow and Janus Films revealed they have since acquired the North American rights for the film.
Sideshow and Janus Films are eying a fall theatrical release for the movie. Sbs is handling international sales for the film, with a deal negotiated by Sideshow and Janus Films with WME Independent. It will next screen at the Berlinale in Panorama.
“Peter Hujar’s Day” was produced by Jordan Drake and Jonah Disend, and co-produced by Fred Burle and Aaron Craig. The film is a Complementary Colors, Blink Productions & Primo Content Presentation in association with We Are Films & Materia Cinema, and a Jordan Drake & One Two Films Production based on the book...
- 2/4/2025
- by Drew Taylor
- The Wrap
“Peter Hujar’s Day,” which premiered at this year’s Sundance, has sold to Sideshow and Janus Films. It’s one of the few projects to land a buyer out of the festival so far.
Written and directed by Ira Sachs, “Peter Hujar’s Day” is set over a 24-hour period in December 1974 and centers on one conversation between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) and his close friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), who recorded their talk for an art project. Hujar, who died of AIDS in 1987, only became celebrated as an artist after his death.
The film debuted in Park City to positive reviews, with Variety’s Owen Gleiberman calling it a “magical 1974 time capsule of a movie.” In his review, he wrote that “in its tiny-scaled staged-documentary way, ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ is exquisitely done and arresting to watch.”
“Peter Hujar’s Day” will screen at the Berlin Film Festival before Sideshow...
Written and directed by Ira Sachs, “Peter Hujar’s Day” is set over a 24-hour period in December 1974 and centers on one conversation between photographer Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw) and his close friend, writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), who recorded their talk for an art project. Hujar, who died of AIDS in 1987, only became celebrated as an artist after his death.
The film debuted in Park City to positive reviews, with Variety’s Owen Gleiberman calling it a “magical 1974 time capsule of a movie.” In his review, he wrote that “in its tiny-scaled staged-documentary way, ‘Peter Hujar’s Day’ is exquisitely done and arresting to watch.”
“Peter Hujar’s Day” will screen at the Berlin Film Festival before Sideshow...
- 2/4/2025
- by Rebecca Rubin
- Variety Film + TV
Timothée Chalamet and Robert Pattinson were among the latest high-profile names confirmed this afternoon as attendees for this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
The pair were included this afternoon in an updated guest list shared by the festival.
Chalamet will attend for the German premiere of his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown while Pattinson will debut his Bong Joon-ho flick Micky 17. Both films play in the Berlinale Specials sidebar.
Other confirmed guests include Conclave filmmaker Edward Berger who will present Tilda Swinton her Honorary Golden Bear. Jessica Chastain will hit the German capital with Michel Franco’s Golden Bear Contender Dreams, and Jacob Elordi will make the trip to Berlin for the world premiere of his Justin Kurzel series The Narrow Road to the Deep South.
Other celebrity guests confirmed today by the festival include Naomi Ackie, Rose Byrne, Toni Collette, Denis Côté, Marion Cotillard, Lars Eidinger, Mala Emde,...
The pair were included this afternoon in an updated guest list shared by the festival.
Chalamet will attend for the German premiere of his Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown while Pattinson will debut his Bong Joon-ho flick Micky 17. Both films play in the Berlinale Specials sidebar.
Other confirmed guests include Conclave filmmaker Edward Berger who will present Tilda Swinton her Honorary Golden Bear. Jessica Chastain will hit the German capital with Michel Franco’s Golden Bear Contender Dreams, and Jacob Elordi will make the trip to Berlin for the world premiere of his Justin Kurzel series The Narrow Road to the Deep South.
Other celebrity guests confirmed today by the festival include Naomi Ackie, Rose Byrne, Toni Collette, Denis Côté, Marion Cotillard, Lars Eidinger, Mala Emde,...
- 2/4/2025
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day is crafted out of just a tiny sliver of a fragment of New York’s mid-1970s culture scene. As part of a larger project, well-connected autofiction writer Linda Rosenkrantz asked her friend, photographer Peter Hujar, to come by her Yorkville apartment on December 19, 1974 and describe everything he did over the course of one day while she recorded him. Though she meant it to be a larger project, she was never able to make the recording into anything. But the written transcript of their conversation was discovered in 2019 and turned by Sachs into an engrossingly personal two-hander.
Peter Hujar’s Day simply consists of Hujar (Ben Whishaw) talking about his day and Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) gently nudging him along, less as an interviewer and more as a curious friend. The only times that Sachs deviates from his formalist framing of this conversation is...
Peter Hujar’s Day simply consists of Hujar (Ben Whishaw) talking about his day and Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) gently nudging him along, less as an interviewer and more as a curious friend. The only times that Sachs deviates from his formalist framing of this conversation is...
- 2/1/2025
- by Chris Barsanti
- Slant Magazine
At its heart, Sundance is about discovery. Some of our brightest, biggest filmmaking stars — we’re talking Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater, Ava DuVernay, Paul Thomas Anderson, Lulu Wang, Ryan Coogler, Aubrey Plaza, Catherine Hardwicke, Todd Haynes, Tessa Thompson, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Eggers, the Duplass brothers, Michael B. Jordan, Amy Adams, Elizabeth Olsen, Brie Larson, Lakeith Stanfield, Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy, and many, many more — first rose to acclaim by bringing their work to Sundance.
In 2025, a year that was long-heralded as one all about new discoveries, that tradition only continued. While this year’s lineup included a number of returning names, like Ira Sachs, Amy Berg, Andrew Ahn, Justin Lin, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Cooper Raiff, Kahlil Joseph, Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, David France, Jesse Short Bull, Ryan White, Sophie Hyde, Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine, Meera Menon, and Clint Bentley, there were also a hefty number of newbies joining those filmmaking ranks.
In 2025, a year that was long-heralded as one all about new discoveries, that tradition only continued. While this year’s lineup included a number of returning names, like Ira Sachs, Amy Berg, Andrew Ahn, Justin Lin, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Cooper Raiff, Kahlil Joseph, Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, David France, Jesse Short Bull, Ryan White, Sophie Hyde, Jesse Moss & Amanda McBaine, Meera Menon, and Clint Bentley, there were also a hefty number of newbies joining those filmmaking ranks.
- 2/1/2025
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Hot off their Academy Award nomination for Adapted Screenplay for Sing Sing, writing duo Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar are already premiering their next film, Train Dreams, this time with Bentley in the director’s chair. Although this literary film has some astounding visuals and impressive performances, it lacks the emotional resonance that one expects from the duo.
Train Dreams Review
Train Dreams is adapted from the novella of the same name by Denis Johnson, following a logger who works for the railroad as he drifts through life, experiencing love, loss, and progress. Although the novella was published in the early 2000s, it has the feel of the “Great American Novel” — a character-driven approach to life in the rustic America of the 20th century. And while Bentley and Kwedar may seem to be the perfect pair to approach such material on paper, it doesn’t quite translate as well as one would hope.
Train Dreams Review
Train Dreams is adapted from the novella of the same name by Denis Johnson, following a logger who works for the railroad as he drifts through life, experiencing love, loss, and progress. Although the novella was published in the early 2000s, it has the feel of the “Great American Novel” — a character-driven approach to life in the rustic America of the 20th century. And while Bentley and Kwedar may seem to be the perfect pair to approach such material on paper, it doesn’t quite translate as well as one would hope.
- 2/1/2025
- by Sean Boelman
- FandomWire
Recent years have seen many filmmakers take a less linear approach to the biopic, inviting audiences to learn more about the subject than a superficial understanding of their life events. Ira Sachs’s latest film, Peter Hujar’s Day, takes the slice-of-life genre to its extreme, delivering an experimental work that many may dismiss as uneventful but has many fascinating layers to unpack. In taking this unorthodox approach, Sachs helps audiences know more about Hujar and the world in which he worked than any simple biopic could.
Peter Hujar’s Day Review
Peter Hujar’s Day is, as the title implies, a narration of a day in the life of Peter Hujar, a gay portrait photographer who has recently become acclaimed for being the seminal figure he was despite the lack of recognition he received at the time. And because of this, the film — like its subject — is incredibly humble and minimalistic in nature,...
Peter Hujar’s Day Review
Peter Hujar’s Day is, as the title implies, a narration of a day in the life of Peter Hujar, a gay portrait photographer who has recently become acclaimed for being the seminal figure he was despite the lack of recognition he received at the time. And because of this, the film — like its subject — is incredibly humble and minimalistic in nature,...
- 1/31/2025
- by Sean Boelman
- FandomWire
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 transcription of an actual conversation between art photographer Hujar and artist Linda Rosenkrantz, who was conducting interviews for a book in […]
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The post “In a Way This Film Asks, What is Lost by the Virtual?” Ira Sachs on his Sundance-Premiering Peter Hujar’s Day first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/30/2025
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
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 transcription of an actual conversation between art photographer Hujar and artist Linda Rosenkrantz, who was conducting interviews for a book in […]
The post “In a Way This Film Asks, What is Lost by the Virtual?” Ira Sachs on his Sundance-Premiering Peter Hujar’s Day first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “In a Way This Film Asks, What is Lost by the Virtual?” Ira Sachs on his Sundance-Premiering Peter Hujar’s Day first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 1/30/2025
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Two years after Ben Whishaw and director Ira Sachs came to the Sundance Film Festival together for the seductive and heartbreaking romantic drama Passages, they've reunited in Park City, Utah for another team-up. Their latest, Peter Hujar's Day, is a biographical adaptation of the book of the same name by writer Linda Rosenkrantz about the titular groundbreaking photographer, played by the Skyfall star, and his intimate conversations with Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall) about his run-ins with various literary and cultural icons and the realities of everyday life as an artist in New York City. However, this won't be their last time collaborating in a New York setting. During an interview with Collider's Steve Weintraub at our interview studio in the Rendezvous Cinema Center, they revealed their next project and teased that work would be underway very soon.
- 1/29/2025
- by Ryan O'Rourke, Steven Weintraub
- Collider.com
Sundance 2025 will be remembered as what’s probably the penultimate year that film festival calls Park City home, as well as the edition that gave us a body-horror rom-com (Irl couple Alison Brie and Dave Franco’s gloriously disgusting Together), an introduction to a major new triple-threat talent (Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby), a pastoral look at the stoic 20th century everymen who made our country (Train Dreams), and a whole lotta music docs. But for us, this Sundance will always be the one where we got to eavesdrop on...
- 1/29/2025
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
As the LGBTQ community continues to face threats to their safety and rights as equal American citizens, the cast and creatives of “Plainclothes” were quick to admit that things feel “terrifying” right now. But that’s what makes their film so important for others to see, they shared.
Having its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, “Plainclothes” tells the story of a promising undercover police officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men, who defies those orders when he falls in love with a target. Starring “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” star Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and others, the film is set in the 1990s.
But stopping by TheWrap’s Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt, Tovey said that it unfortunately doesn’t feel like a story of the past.
“The world moves in circles, and you would hope that,...
Having its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival this year, “Plainclothes” tells the story of a promising undercover police officer assigned to lure and arrest gay men, who defies those orders when he falls in love with a target. Starring “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” star Tom Blyth, Russell Tovey, Maria Dizzia and others, the film is set in the 1990s.
But stopping by TheWrap’s Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt, Tovey said that it unfortunately doesn’t feel like a story of the past.
“The world moves in circles, and you would hope that,...
- 1/29/2025
- by Andi Ortiz
- The Wrap
“Peter Hujar’s Day” reunites writer-director Ira Sachs with his “Passages” star Ben Whishaw, and Sachs revealed at TheWrap’s Sundance Studio presented by World of Hyatt that his latest effort began while he was still making that searing 2023 relationship drama.
“I was working in Paris with Ben on ‘Passages,’ and I saw a book in a bookstore called ‘Peter Hujar’s Day,’ and it was a publication of a transcript of a conversation that took place in 1974 between the photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosencrantz,” Sachs recalled. “I picked it up and read it in a cafe, and by the time I finished it, I thought this would be a really interesting project or film or a piece of art to make with Ben specifically.”
While Whishaw said he “enjoyed” the original transcript that Sachs gave him, it wasn’t until he actually saw how the filmmaker wanted to...
“I was working in Paris with Ben on ‘Passages,’ and I saw a book in a bookstore called ‘Peter Hujar’s Day,’ and it was a publication of a transcript of a conversation that took place in 1974 between the photographer Peter Hujar and his friend Linda Rosencrantz,” Sachs recalled. “I picked it up and read it in a cafe, and by the time I finished it, I thought this would be a really interesting project or film or a piece of art to make with Ben specifically.”
While Whishaw said he “enjoyed” the original transcript that Sachs gave him, it wasn’t until he actually saw how the filmmaker wanted to...
- 1/28/2025
- by Alex Welch
- The Wrap
In the ever-shifting world of the biopic, a biopic can be many different things. It can be like a novel (if it covers someone’s entire life). It can have the more concentrated quality of a short story (if it’s set during one key period). On that score, you might say that “Peter Hujar’s Day” is the biopic as sonnet. The entire film takes place in one day — but more than that, it consists entirely of Peter Hujar (Ben Whishaw), the noted New York photographer of the 1970s and ’80s, having a rambling conversation with his friend, Linda Rosenkrantz (Rebecca Hall), in which he recounts everything he did the day before.
It seems that the two were collaborating on a project. Rosenkrantz instructed Hujar to write down everything that happened to him on Dec. 18, 1974, and to show up the following day at her apartment on 94th St. in Manhattan,...
It seems that the two were collaborating on a project. Rosenkrantz instructed Hujar to write down everything that happened to him on Dec. 18, 1974, and to show up the following day at her apartment on 94th St. in Manhattan,...
- 1/27/2025
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
In 2008, Ira Sachs got fired by his manager. The most indie spirited of independent filmmakers had refused to play the game for too long, and the bill had finally come due.
“I understood it in a way,” Sachs, more than a decade and a half-dozen features removed from that experience, says. “Because I was not entering the business, and his job was to facilitate the business of Hollywood, which was not what I was interested in doing. They were trying to get me jobs as opposed to what I was trying to do, which was produce my own work.”
For the record, Sachs thinks that he never would have gotten the gigs that his representatives wanted him to land. But the experience helped rethink his value in an industry that usually measures those things in terms of box office grosses.
“Before that, I thought I was kind of owed a career based on certain successes,...
“I understood it in a way,” Sachs, more than a decade and a half-dozen features removed from that experience, says. “Because I was not entering the business, and his job was to facilitate the business of Hollywood, which was not what I was interested in doing. They were trying to get me jobs as opposed to what I was trying to do, which was produce my own work.”
For the record, Sachs thinks that he never would have gotten the gigs that his representatives wanted him to land. But the experience helped rethink his value in an industry that usually measures those things in terms of box office grosses.
“Before that, I thought I was kind of owed a career based on certain successes,...
- 1/27/2025
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
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