Listening Post (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
New York's famed Hotel Chelsea is in the bright lights these days, which is weird considering how dark everyone says the boho hotspot is. Abel Ferrara's new documentary Chelsea on the Rocks, which premiered at Cannes this weekend, as well...
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 05/25/2008
Most documentaries stick with interviews of living people. But since this one's about New York's Chelsea Hotel and its rock 'n' roll aura, it seems natural that the ghosts of Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious turn up.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Most documentaries stick with interviews of living people. But since this one's about New York's Chelsea Hotel and its rock 'n' roll aura, it seems natural that the ghosts of Janis Joplin and Sid Vicious turn up.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
"Abel Ferrara's new film, Chelsea on the Rocks, represents a kind of homecoming for the Bronx-born director and longtime chronicler of the New York City underbelly," writes Dennis Lim in the Los Angeles Times. "Chelsea on the Rocks, which had...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/24/2008
Film Reviews: A skittery, rambling but often absorbing portrait of the Chelsea Hotel, pic shuffles together vintage archive footage, scrappy dramatic re-enactments of famous moments at the hotel, and original interview material in helmer's first go at docmaking in more than 30 years.
News & Information (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
Abel Ferrara, whose past films includes the anguished cult classic “Bad Lieutenant,” premiered his documentary on New York’s legendary Chelsea Hotel at the Cannes film festival Friday….Read more
The WOW Report (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The one-of-a-kind moviemaker Abel Ferrara (Ms .45, King of New York, Bad Lieutenant) checked into the one-of-a-kind Chelsea Hotel in New York inspired to make a documentary about the legendary rough-edged West 23rd Street building that Mark Twain, Bob...
