Editing Hotel Chelsea (section)

==== Films and television ====
The hotel has been featured in several documentaries. Its history was chronicled in the 2008 documentary ''[[Chelsea on the Rocks]]'', directed by [[Abel Ferrara]],<ref name="Felperin 2008" /><ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Thill |first=Scott |title=Hotel Chelsea: Rock's Vortex Of 'Death and Destruction' |magazine=[[Wired (magazine)|Wired]] |url=https://www.wired.com/2008/05/chelsea-hotel-r/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705061334/https://www.wired.com/2008/05/chelsea-hotel-r/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the 2022 documentary ''Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel'', executive-produced by [[Martin Scorsese]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gleiberman |first=Owen |date=July 10, 2022 |title='Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel' Review: An Elegy for the Bohemian Mystique |url=https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotel-1235312189/ |access-date=October 13, 2023 |website=Variety |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705061336/https://variety.com/2022/film/reviews/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotel-1235312189/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bradshaw |first=Peter |date=January 18, 2023 |title=Dreaming Walls review – Chelsea Hotel's window on last days of bohemia -GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/18/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotels-window-on-last-days-of-bohemia |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=October 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016023847/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jan/18/dreaming-walls-review-chelsea-hotels-window-on-last-days-of-bohemia |url-status=live}}</ref> An episode of the TV series ''[[An American Family]]'', aired on [[PBS]] in 1973, was mostly filmed at the Chelsea,{{sfn|Tippins|2013|p=296}}<ref>{{cite web |title=An American Family |first=Anne |last=Roiphe |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 18, 1973 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/things-are-keen-but-could-be-keener-an-american-family-an-american.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 9, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231009234339/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/02/18/archives/things-are-keen-but-could-be-keener-an-american-family-an-american.html |url-status=live}}</ref> as was an episode of the documentary series ''[[Arena (British TV series)|Arena]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last=Walker |first=J.A. |title=Arts TV: A History of Arts Television in Britain |publisher=J. Libbey |series=Arts Council Arts and Media Series |year=1993 |isbn=978-0-86196-435-2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYjN74Ej-JUC&pg=PA108 |access-date=October 20, 2023 |page=108 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223425/https://books.google.com/books?id=wYjN74Ej-JUC&pg=PA108#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live}}</ref> The 1986 film ''[[Sid and Nancy]]'', by [[Alex Cox]], chronicled the lives of residents Sid Vicious and Nancy Spungen and the circumstances leading up to Spungen's murder in the hotel.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Maslin |first=Janet |date=October 3, 1986 |title=Film Festival; 'Sid and Nancy' Re-creates Tale of Punk Romance |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/movies/film-festival-sid-and-nancy-re-creates-tale-of-punk-romance.html |access-date=October 13, 2023 |archive-date=August 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826195242/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/03/movies/film-festival-sid-and-nancy-re-creates-tale-of-punk-romance.html |url-status=live|postscript=none}}; {{Cite news |date=October 3, 1986 |first=Stephen |last=Williams |title=A Vicious Love Story |pages=169, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-a-vicious-love-story/133779362/ 177] |work=[[Newsday]] |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-a-vicious-love-story/133779325/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223427/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-a-vicious-love-story/133779325/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

The Chelsea has also been used as a setting for other films. Andy Warhol and [[Paul Morrissey]] directed ''[[Chelsea Girls]]'' (1966), a film about Warhol's Factory regulars and their lives at the hotel,<ref name="Connelly 2013" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 2, 1966 |title=Andy Warhol's 'Chelsea Girls' at the Cinema Rendezvous |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/02/archives/andy-warhols-chelsea-girls-at-the-cinema-rendezvous.html |access-date=October 14, 2023 |archive-date=March 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210308193335/https://www.nytimes.com/1966/12/02/archives/andy-warhols-chelsea-girls-at-the-cinema-rendezvous.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Shirley Clarke]]'s 1967 film ''[[Portrait of Jason]]'' also used the hotel as a setting.<ref>{{cite web |last=Dargis |first=Manohla |title=Shirley Clarke's 'Portrait of Jason,' Back in Circulation |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 12, 2013 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/movies/shirley-clarkes-portrait-of-jason-back-in-circulation.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=August 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230803042627/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/movies/shirley-clarkes-portrait-of-jason-back-in-circulation.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Parts of Sandy Daley's 1971 short film ''Robert Having His Nipple Pierced'' were filmed at the Chelsea on a budget of less than $2,000.<ref>{{cite news |last=Levine |first=Paul G. |date=January 13, 1980 |title=Rock Stars Film It Their Way |page=M6 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |id={{ProQuest|162665478}}}}</ref> [[Ethan Hawke]] directed the 2001 film ''[[Chelsea Walls]]'' about a new generation of artists living at the hotel.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 19, 2002 |title=Checking In At the Chelsea |pages=113, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-checking-in-at/133460671/ 114] |work=[[Newsday]] |first=Jan |last=Stuart |via=newspapers.com |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-checking-in-at/133460653/ |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223426/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-checking-in-at/133460653/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Holden 2002">{{Cite news |last=Holden |first=Stephen |date=April 19, 2002 |title=Film Review; Poor, Miserable and Addicted? They Must Be Poets |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/movies/film-review-poor-miserable-and-addicted-they-must-be-poets.html |access-date=October 15, 2023 |archive-date=April 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230419000121/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/19/movies/film-review-poor-miserable-and-addicted-they-must-be-poets.html |url-status=live}}</ref> Other films with scenes shot at the Chelsea include ''[[Tally Brown, New York]]'' (1979);<ref>{{cite book |last=von Praunheim |first=Rosa |title=50 Jahre pervers: die sentimentalen Memoiren des Rosa von Praunheim |trans-title=50 years of perversity: the sentimental memoirs of Rosa von Praunheim |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |year=1993 |isbn=978-3-462-02252-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z10dAQAAIAAJ |language=de |access-date=October 20, 2023 |page=255 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223457/https://books.google.com/books?id=Z10dAQAAIAAJ |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[9½ Weeks]]'' (1986);<ref>{{cite web |title=From '9 1/2 weeks'…John and Elizabeth Chapter 165 |website=[[New York Daily News]] |date=September 13, 2002 |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/2002/09/13/from-9-12-weeksjohn-and-elizabeth-chapter-165/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=October 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231021223437/https://www.nydailynews.com/2002/09/13/from-9-12-weeksjohn-and-elizabeth-chapter-165/ |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Anna (1987 film)|Anna]]'' (1987);<ref>{{cite web |last=Gross |first=Michael |title=Notes on Fashions |website=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 30, 1986 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/30/style/notes-on-fashions.html |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=May 24, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150524193841/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/30/style/notes-on-fashions.html |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[Léon: The Professional]]'' (1994);<ref>{{cite web |last=Mukhopadhyay |first=Arka |title=Where Was Léon: The Professional Filmed? |website=The Cinemaholic |date=October 2, 2021 |url=https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-leon-the-professional-filmed/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=December 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221208010956/https://thecinemaholic.com/where-was-leon-the-professional-filmed/ |url-status=live}}</ref> and the horror film ''[[Hotel Chelsea (film)|Hotel Chelsea]]'' (2009).<ref>{{cite web |last=Luchies |first=Adam |title='Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel' Trailer Spotlights New York's Iconic Building |website=Collider |date=June 4, 2022 |url=https://collider.com/dreaming-walls-inside-the-chelsea-hotel-trailer/ |access-date=October 20, 2023 |archive-date=July 14, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220714093950/https://collider.com/dreaming-walls-inside-the-chelsea-hotel-trailer/ |url-status=live}}</ref>