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Bronx-born Bad Lieutenant director Abel Ferrara has directed his first feature-length documentary, Chelsea on the Rocks, about the troubles roiling that legendary landmark in recent years. The Village Voice's Nick Pinkerton calls it "the first Ferrara film that doesn't congeal: Contrasting the mostly middle-aged tenants/talking heads are flashes of youthful Dionysians and re-enactments of legendary celebrity dissipation on the Chelsea's premises, including the death of Sid's Nancy Spungen (Bijou Phillips, looking and sounding considerably better than the real thing) and Janis Joplin's near-collapse (also resurrected in stock footage, sitting in with the Grateful Dead).
"And how to justify the abrupt interjection of 9/11 and the disconcerting musical contributions from Ferrara and Ethan Hawke? Usually, the weaving eloquence of Ferrara's filmmaking suffices to draw one in. Chelsea rambles—and in a way that makes you want to move down the bar."
Click on the film stills above for more on this week's new releases and repertory screenings, which also include The Invention of Lying, Whip It, Zombieland, After the Storm, Afterschool, An American Journey: Revisiting Robert Frank’s "The Americans", Chelsea on the Rocks, More Than a Game, Where is Where?, The Wiz, and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
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