Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Abel Ferrara's documentary "Chelsea on the Rocks" appears to have been made for a remarkably select audience: namely, people who have lived in the Chelsea Hotel and know everybody there already. For them, this film will be a nostalgic revisiting of old friends and neighbors, of familiar hallways with wrought-iron railings and oft-told tales.
KansasCity.com (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Abel Ferrara's documentary "Chelsea on the Rocks" appears to have been made for a remarkably select audience: namely, people who have lived in the Chelsea Hotel and know everybody there already. For them, this film will be a nostalgic revisiting of old friends and neighbors, of familiar hallways with wrought-iron railings and oft-told tales.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
A review of "Chelsea on the Rocks," a less-than-illuminating documentary about the fabled Chelsea Hotel, longtime home to artists and other New York characters. By Seattle Times movie critic Moira Macdonald.
The House Next Door (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
By Lauren Wissot “Some of these people just float in here. They don’t check in, they float in,” an interview subject says in Abel Ferrara’s first foray into documentary filmmaking in over three decades, a home movie (literally—Ferrara moved into his old haunt during production) masquerading as vital exploration of the infamous Chelsea Hotel. This is the place where notable...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Actor ETHAN HAWKE was given a free room at New York's famous Chelsea Hotel on the understanding he reconciled with estranged wife UMA THURMAN.Hotel boss Stanley Bard...
kenneth in the (212) (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
It really is a shame that the walls inside the Chelsea Hotel can't talk, because what they'd say would undoubtedly be more interesting than most of what's included in "Chelsea on the Rocks," director Abel Ferrara's documentary about the infamous bohemian-friendly hotel. Never certain of what it wants to be, the film jumps back and forth between standard interviews (mostly examining the recent...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 02/10/2009
The latest film from Abel Ferrara, New York's notorious poet of the street, Chelsea on the Rocks is a fascinating, freewheeling personal journey inside the walls, history and mythology of Manhattan's celebrated bohemian landmark, The Chelsea Hotel.
A.V. Club (Free subscription) | 01/10/2009
There’s no better director to chronicle the history of New York’s Chelsea Hotel than Abel Ferrara, whose best films draw energy from the city’s bohemian decay. Home, briefly or otherwise, to an impossibly long list of artistic luminaries, the hotel has been memorialized by Leonard Cohen and Andy Warhol as a vibrant den of sin, a place where geniuses rub elbows with (and sometimes...
New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 28/09/2009
“I never lived at the Chelsea Hotel, but I used to visit a lot,” says Abel Ferrara.
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 25/09/2009
Chelsea On The Rocks . A film by Abel Ferrara about the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York.
filmcritic.com Movie Reviews (Free subscription) | 24/09/2009
It's one of those New York landmarks that some make a point of seeing and then feel disappointed about. For all the glamour associated with the Chelsea Hotel, the nearly 130-year-old red brick pile is really just a hotel well past its glory years -- if indeed glory years they were. The true history is only visible to those who put in time there. One could make the same argument about Abel Ferrara,...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
You're always bumping into people when you spend a lot of time at the Chelsea Hotel, Lola Schnabel, who's had a studio there for years, told us at last night's screening of Chelsea on the Rocks , Abel Ferrara’s documentary about the hotel. And not just ordinary people. People people. "My favorite memory is of waking up at five in the morning with him," she pointed to the director,...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 22/09/2009
Celebrity party people such as Kirsten Dunst are wearing out their welcome on Jane Street. Ana Gasteyer is busy. A new book says Michelle Obama gave Barack the silent treatment during the campaign when she was sick of other women grabbing his ass. It also cites rumors that an attractive young campaign staffer named Vera Baker moved to the island of Martinique. The producers of a new documentary about...
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 04/09/2009
German director Werner Herzog says his "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," starring Nicolas Cage as a drug-addicted homicide detective and Eva Mendes as his prostitute girlfriend, has nothing to do with Abel Ferrara's 1992 cult classic starring Harvey Keitel. He hasn't even seen it.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 05/08/2009
Talk about typecasting.
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