On Dec. 19, 1974, the writer Linda Rosenkrantz recorded her friend, the esteemed photographer Peter Hujar, recounting everything he did the prior day while it was fresh in his mind.

The author of Talk, about friends conversing in the Hamptons, she planned to turn her conversation with Hujar into a book about how notable people spend their days.

The book didn’t happen, but the conversation did get published in 2021 as Peter Hujar’s Day , and now there’s a film adaptation by the same name, out in theaters Nov. 7, directed by Ira Sachs and starring Ben Whishaw as Hujar and Rebecca Hall as Rosenkrantz. Using the transcript as dialogue, the film shows Hujar and Rosenkrantz lounging and talking in her Manhattan apartment, cooking and having a smoke on the roof.

The real Rosenkrantz thinks

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