Chelsea Hotel
MovieTitle | Chelsea Hotel |
User score | 8 |
Release date | Jan 3, 1981 |
Genre | TV Movie, Documentary |
Director | Nigel Finch |
Production country | United Kingdom |
Production companies | Illuminations Films, BBC |
Run time | 55 min. |
This TV documentary shows some of the colourful residents of and people connected with the New York Chelsea Hotel. Some highlights include Andy Warhol and William Burroughs having dinner; Quentin Crisp pontificating in a blue rinse hairdo on his balcony and Nico forgetting what she is talking about halfway through a dour rendition of "Chelsea Girls". A number of lesser-known characters also appear, linked together by a tour guide walking around the building and some sub-Shining sequences of a child cycling round the landings on a rickety tricycle.