CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS: QUANDO UN ATTORE INTERPRETA SE STESSO. E' QUI IL CASO DI ETHAN HAWKE PER LA STORIA DELL'HOTEL DEGLI ARTISTI RACCONTATA DA ABEL FERRARA SULL'ONDA DEL DOCUMENTARIO
Dal 61. Festival del Cinema di CANNES
PLOT IN ENGLISH('Sinossi')
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Titolo in italiano: Chelsea on the Rocks
Titolo in lingua originale:
Chelsea on the Rocks
Anno di produzione:
2008
Anno di uscita:
2008
Regia: Abel Ferrara
Sceneggiatura:
Abel Ferrara
Soggetto: Storia di David Linter e Christ Zois
Cast: Ethan Hawke (se stesso)
Bijou Phillips (Nancy)
Dennis Hopper
Adam Goldberg (Steve)
Gaby Hoffman
Milos Forman
Giancarlo Esposito (Tip)
Grace Jones
Sid Vicious
Musica: Robert Burger
Costumi: Nile Cmylo
Scenografia: Frank DeCurtis
Fotografia: Ken Kelsch
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Sinossi:
CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from this legendary residence in the heart of New York. The 12-storey, 250-room Chelsea Hotel - originally built in 1883 as Manhattan’s first cooperative apartment, and the tallest building in New York until 1902 - was converted into a hotel and residence in 1905. 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). Beyond the famous are the little known who have made this their refuge in New York - countless writers, painters, directors, costume and lighting designers, gallerists and curators, and those who are just always there with no visible means of support. And then there are those - most famously Sid Vicious’
girlfriend Nancy Spungen - who died there. Each of these characters fills out a cast that makes this story come together with the best of New York architecture, history, art, comedy and tragedy, all through the eyes and passion of acclaimed auteur Abel Ferrara. 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.
Dal Press-Book di Chelsea on the Rocks
IN BREVE:
Costruito nel 1883 ma divenuto un albergo solo nel 1902, il Chelsea Hotel di New York è il simbolo dell’ambiente artistico e bohemiene di passaggio per la Grande Mela. Tra gli ospiti più celebri del Chelsea sono da annoverare 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, , Dennis Hopper, Andy Warhol, Edie Sedgwick, , Jane Fonda, , Leonard Cohen, Robert Mapplethorpe, Tom Waits, Courtney Love, Sam Shepard, Charles Bukowski, Julian Schnabel, Jimi Hendrix, Sid Vicious e tanti altri. Attraverso filmati d’archivio, interviste agli attuali proprietari e gestori dell’albergo e testimonianze degli ospiti di ieri e di oggi, Abel Ferrara rende omaggio con questo documentario ad un luogo entrato nel mito.
Links:
• Abel Ferrara (Regista)
• Ethan Hawke (Regista)
• Ethan Hawke (Attore)
• Milos Forman (Regista)
Galleria Fotografica:
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