OLD CHELSEA LIVES ON-SCREEN

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Hotel Chelsea Visits Cannes, "on the Rocks"
Published 5/12/2008 by Jen Carlson at Gothamist
... themselves, filmmaker Abel Ferrara moved back in to his old digs. The NY Post reports that the move was to help in the making his documentary, ...

Mark Twain Slept Here
Published 5/12/2008 at WOW Report
... It's where Sid stabbed Nancy, Warhol shot Chelsea Girls, and Arthur C Clarke wrote 2001. Now Ferrara joins the list. He checked in with no plan or storyboard. "I didn't come in with a point to it," he says, "so I just lived there and began filming. The result was the hotel from soup to nuts. It's about the people that lived there, the ghosts, and the people that live there now." The movie, Chelsea on the Rocks, premieres this month at Cannes. (Page Six) ...