As an actor, Rebecca Hall is forever tuning in to the hard-to-catch frequencies and day-to-day idiosyncrasies that make people, people. In 2024, she starred in Janicza Bravo’s eerie drama The Listeners , playing a teacher whose life unspools as she begins to hear a low, pulsating sound that nobody else can. This year, she starred in Ira Sachs’s Peter Hujar’s Day , an intimate snapshot of 1970s New York that recreates a real-life conversation between writer Linda Rosenkrantz (Hall) and photographer Peter Hujar ( Ben Whishaw ) over the course of a day. This tender and magnetic movie—about friendship, memory, and the spectre of a generational creative scene—racked up five nominations at the forthcoming Independent Spirit Awards, promising good things for the awards season ahead.

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