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Crew:
Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Abel Ferrara, David Linter, Christ Zois
DOP: David Hausen, Ken Kelsch
Production: Chelsea Project LLC
Screenplay: Abel Ferrara, David Linter, Christ Zois
DOP: David Hausen, Ken Kelsch
Production: Chelsea Project LLC
Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from this legendary residence in the heart of New York.Once considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has recently been claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company which shows blatant disregard for its formidable history. The officially landmarked building is recognized as an American cultural icon and renowned for those who have lived and created there, including Sir Arthur Clarke, Bob Dylan, Stanley Kubrick, Arthur Miller, Joni Mitchell, Dee Dee Ramone, Larry Rivers, Dylan Thomas, Mark Twain,Tennessee Williams, Milos Forman, Janis Joplin, Donald Sutherland, Patti Smith, Philip Taaffe, Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, Eugene O Neill, Jane Fonda, Leonard Cohen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Waits, Courtney Love, Sam Shepard, Charles Bukowski, Julian Schnabel, Jasper Johns, Viva, Quentin Crisp, Jimi Hendrix and many others (some of whom appear in this film). And then there are those - most famously Sid Vicious girlfriend Nancy Spungen - who died there. Interviewing current tenants, recreating scenes of events that occurred at the Chelsea and intertwining archival footage with different formats of film and video, Ferrara creates a film that breaks through the documentary mould into something that captures the essence of the Chelsea Hotel.
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Cast:
Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Grace Jones, Milos Forman, Adam Goldberg, Bijou Phillips, Giancarlo Esposito, Christy Scott Cashman, Shanyn Leigh, Jamie Burke, Gaby Hoffmann, Vito Acconci, R. Crumb -
Original Title:
Chelsea on the Rocks -
Country:
United States of America -
Year:
2008 - 88'
Crew:
Director: Abel Ferrara
Screenplay: Abel Ferrara, David Linter, Christ Zois
DOP: David Hausen, Ken Kelsch
Production: Chelsea Project LLC
Screenplay: Abel Ferrara, David Linter, Christ Zois
DOP: David Hausen, Ken Kelsch
Production: Chelsea Project LLC
Director
Abel Ferrara

Born in New York in 1951, Abel Ferrara is an American filmmaker, known for the provocative and often controversial content of his films, his use of neo-noir imagery and gritty urban settings. He maintains a cult reputation that allows him to navigate between large-budget features and decadent B-movie-style tales. A long-time independent filmmaker, his best-known films include Ms .45 (1981), King of New York (1990), Bad Lieutenant (1992), The Funeral (1996) and Pasolini (2014). Abel Ferrara has been a guest of LEFFEST several times, and his work was screened in a Retrospective at LEFFEST’ 17. He returns this year to the festival to present his new film Padre Pio.