Ira Sachs
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First look at Ira Sach’s new biopic of legendary queer photographer PETER HUJAR starring Ben Wishaw
Queerguru hopes that the extraordinary queer photographer PETER HUJAR is looking down from wherever he is now, as his work received only marginal public recognition during his lifetime, but he has since been recognized as a major American photographer of the 1970s and 80s. He was an influential artist-activist of the gay liberation movement; in 1969, with…
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The great queer photographer PETER HUJAR is celebrated in an exhibit and a film in 2025, 38 years after his death
Peter Hujar was an American photographer best known for his black-and-white portraits which reflected his homosexual milieu. He was an influential artist-activist of the gay liberation movement; in 1969, with his lover, the political activist Jim Fouratt, he witnessed the Stonewall riots in the West Village. In early 1981, Hujar met the young artist David Wojnarowicz, and after a brief period…
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Queerguru’s Ris Fatah reviews Ira Sach’s PASSAGES a very human story of a couple in love but one of whom also wants more.
Passages is a sexy, intense drama starring Franz Rogowski Great Freedom) the brilliant Ben Whishaw (An English Scandal) and Adele Exarchopoulos (Blue Is The Warmest Color) A chaotic and often brutal study of a modern relationship, Passages is set in an avant-garde, young Paris. Intense German film director Tomas (Rogowski) is married to…
