Chelsea Walls

I actually had quite some hopes for CHELSEA WALLS. It looked like Ethan Hawke took the basic concept of an ensemble-movie or mosaic-picture (a lot of different characters, each with their own story, that might cross each other at one... Full review

The young poet Audrey is shown writing an epic love ode to her boyfriend. Montage of her on her bare-roomed floor with voice over ("I want to be your wristwatch band so that every pulse throb will subtly remind you... Full review

I connect with what this thing is supposed to be, but the substance of these artists is poor. Nothing we see from them rises above the level of teenage poetry. The Chelsea Hotel is still a mecca for poets and... Full review

I thought this film was extremely well crafted, with some outstanding performances - never overplayed or played for sensationalistic effect. Kris Kristoferson was a revelation - a very fine actor here, but everyone contributed to the realism and complexity of... Full review

All these characters have problems. But i think that is the point. Because the movie is mostly supposed to be about the hotel itself. The people in it are just passing through. The film is showing how the people change,... Full review

This film seems to be more of an experiment than a full fledged film. It has moments of brilliance but it is in dire need of plot structure. I also didn't connect to many of the characters because I was... Full review

There are many lines like the one above in this film. Ethan Hawke in his first work as a director has tried to capture the feeling of these modern beatniks who reside in the Chelsea Hotel in NYC and have... Full review

A literary style, namely poetry, make this energetic and non-linearmovie a real joy to take in; the mixing of sounds and dialogues ormonologues also follow a poetic and jazz-like bee-bop approach.The characters presented are very real and yet also seems... Full review

This is what happens when an actor is handed a video camera and convinces himself that he has the talent to make a full-length feature as his first "project" out of the starting gate, rather than honing his directorial skills... Full review

Chelsea Walls ~ for me, was like peering into a snow globe, deep into the magnified lives of these haunting people who cohabit in the Chelsea Hotel. I loved every moment of the film, every spoken line, every expression, every... Full review

The misery often associated with the numbers in his repertoire -- dominated, natch, by the Great American Songbook -- was pronounced on an odd selection he recorded in 1998, Elton John and Bernie Taupin's "Sorry Seems to be the Hardest... ... Full Article

Apr 24, 2002 | There are plenty of reasons to make fun of "Chelsea Walls," Ethan Hawke's drifty, pretentious directorial debut (I'm not counting a short film he made in 1994). ... Full Article

Grace (Uma Thurman), Audrey (Rosario Dawson), Frank (Vincent D'Onofrio), Bud (Kris Kristofferson), Greta (Tuesday Weld), and Ross (Steve Zahn) are all new residents in the historic Chelsea Hotel. ... Full Article

Actor Ethan Hawke makes his feature film directorial debut in this film with a large ensemble cast including Kris Kristofferson, Uma Thurman, Marisa Tomei, Vincent D'Onofrio, and Robert Sean Leonard. ... Full Article

"Now, it feels like somebody else's life," Hawke says. "My life is no reflection of this anymore. I have two kids, one of them is nine years old. ... Full Article