Chelsea Hotel

Chelsea Hotel

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 3, 1981

Runtime

0h 55m

Genres

TV Movie, Documentary

User Score

80%

Original Title

Chelsea Hotel

Production Companies

Illuminations Films, BBC

Director

Nigel Finch

Description

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.