Chelsea on the Rocks

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Chelsea on the Rocks
Directed by	Abel Ferrara
Written by	Abel Ferrara David Linter Chris Zois
Produced by	Jen Gatien David D. Wasserman
Starring	Vito Acconci Donald Baechler Stanley Bard Sathima Bea Benjamin Jamie Burke Christy Scott Cashman Robert Crumb Giancarlo Esposito Abel Ferrara Miloš Forman Adam Goldberg Ethan Hawke Gaby Hoffmann Dennis Hopper Grace Jones Bijou Phillips Zaldy
Cinematography	David Hausen Ken Kelsch
Edited by	Langdon Page
Music by	Robert Burger
Release dates	May 23, 2008 (2008-05-23) (Cannes) October 2, 2009 (2009-10-02) (United States)
Running time	89 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Chelsea on the Rocks is a documentary film directed by Abel Ferrara about the Hotel Chelsea. The film features Ferrara interviewing people who have and had lived at the hotel, intercut with dramatized footage of some famous events that took place there. During the film's interviews and docudrama Gaby Hoffmann, Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper, Robert Crumb, Adam Goldberg, Grace Jones, Miloš Forman, and Bijou Phillips make appearances.

The film premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival out of competition,^[1][2] and opened in theatres on October 2, 2009.^[3]