A Grand Central Station of High Times
di Stephen Holden The New York Times
Abel Ferrara’s ramshackle documentary “Chelsea on the Rocks” is not — I repeat not — a sober history of the Hotel Chelsea, the Manhattan landmark and artist hangout on West 23rd Street. An enraptured fantasia of high times at the hotel, the film is so intoxicated with the Chelsea’s bohemian mystique it virtually consumes itself.
Built in 1883 as an apartment cooperative, the Chelsea began operating as a hotel in 1905 and in the decades since has served as both a welcoming longtime residence and stopover for artists and musicians. [...]
di Stephen Holden, articolo completo (2599 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 2 Ottobre 2009
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