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Chelsea Walls
Directed by
Ethan Hawke
R
2001
1h 49m
Drama
4.8
26%
40%
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This movie tells five stories set in a single day at the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City, involving an ensemble cast of some 30-35 characters.
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Cast of Chelsea Walls
Bianca Hunter
Lorna Doone
Kevin Corrigan
Crutches
Rosario Dawson
Audrey
Matthew Del Negro
Rookie Cop
Paz de la Huerta
Girl
Guillermo Díaz
Kid
Paul D. Failla
Cop
Kris Kristofferson
Bud
Robert Sean Leonard
Terry Olsen
Duane McLaughlin
Wall
Natasha Richardson
Mary
Jimmy Scott
Skinny Bones
John Seitz
Dean
Mark Strand
Journalist
Uma Thurman
Grace
Heather Watts
Ballerina
Mark Webber
Val
Tuesday Weld
Greta
Vincent D'Onofrio
Frank
Frank Whaley
Lynny Barnum
Harris Yulin
Bud's Editor
Steve Zahn
Ross
Sam Connelly
Crony 1
Richard Linklater
Crony 2
Peter Salett
Crony 3
Laura Maxwell
Girl in Bar (uncredited)
Isaac Hayes
Man in Elevator (uncredited)
Ethan Hawke
Sam (voice) (uncredited)
Chelsea Walls Ratings & Reviews
Newsday
Jan Stuart
Like the Chelsea's denizens ... Burdette's collage-form scenario tends to over-romanticize the spiritual desolation of the struggling artiste.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Steven Rea
Hawke's actors are a talented troupe, and even when things get self-indulgent and fuzzy-headed (and boy, do they!), interesting stuff is going on.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Hampered -- no, paralyzed -- by a self-indulgent script ... that aims for poetry and ends up sounding like satire.
Seattle Times
John Hartl
The movie is essentially a series of fleetingly interesting actors' moments.
Boston Globe
Erin Meister
Were Dylan Thomas alive to witness first-time director Ethan Hawke's strained Chelsea Walls, he might have been tempted to change his landmark poem to, 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Theatre.'
Dallas Morning News
Philip Wuntch
The cinematic equivalent of patronizing a bar favored by pretentious, untalented artistes who enjoy moaning about their cruel fate.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Movies like this do not grab you by the throat. You have to be receptive.
New York Post
Jonathan Foreman
Calling it pretentious doesn't do justice to the toxic faux-bohemianism and unearned self-regard that bubble and ooze out of every aspect of Chelsea Walls.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
If Chelsea Walls builds a mood of boozy poetic disorientation, a crucial ingredient is missing: the scent of genuine artistic genius.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
Hawke draws out the best from his large cast in beautifully articulated portrayals that are subtle and so expressive they can sustain the poetic flights in Burdette's dialogue.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
The ethos of the Chelsea Hotel may shape Hawke's artistic aspirations, but he hasn't yet coordinated his own DV poetry with the Beat he hears in his soul.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Ethan Hawke has always fancied himself the bastard child of the Beatnik generation and it's all over his Chelsea Walls.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
I liked this film a lot...
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
I'm not suggesting that you actually see it, unless you're the kind of person who has seen every Wim Wenders film of the '70s.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Hunter
Hawke achieves something special but less than industry-shaking.
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
The digital-video results play like a flatulent teenager's first discovery of jazz, cigarettes, and hooch.
Des Moines Register
Jeffrey Bruner
Hawke's film, a boring, pretentious waste of nearly two hours, doesn't tell you anything except that the Chelsea Hotel today is populated by whiny, pathetic, starving and untalented artistes.
FilmJerk.com
Edward Havens
A complete waste of time.
Chicago Tribune
It is dead on the inside, never quite achieving the movements and emotional solidity the material demands.
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