Ira Sachs’ 2010 short film Last Address presents an unadorned montage of New York City apartment buildings and rowhouses, each of which once housed an…
With Peter Hujar’s Day, writer-director Ira Sachs reteams with actor Ben Whishaw, trading the contemporary Paris of Passages (2023) for 1974 Manhattan. Whishaw stars as…
With Passages, American indie filmmaker Ira Sachs builds on the not-unexpected Euro-arthouse move he made with 2019’s underwhelming Cannes competition swing Frankie, which threw a…
OK, so things don’t really vanish anymore: even the most limited film release will (most likely, eventually) find its way onto some streaming service or into some…
Ira Sachs’ Frankie is a film of bourgeois comforts. Set in summery Sintra, it offers any number of picturesque views of the Portuguese town, which…