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2001: a space odyssey within its walls. it's certainly an institution with a strong bohemian streak. the tribeca film dreaming walls: inside the chelsea hotel wasn't so much an impressionistic tribute to this legendary hostelry and its denizens, but a portrait of it in a moment of transition. i wanted this apartment to stay true to the history of the chelsea. its focus is on the residential holdouts who remained in the hotel while it underwent a recent transformation into a boutique establishment. knocks at window stop! hey! the film has been made by two belgian directors. it's a moment in tim...

In a room where janisjoplin lived and dave grohl and leonard cohen. you know, i was in dee dee ramone's room for a couple of months. and, you know, it raised my game. there's a mournfulness to this documentary, the nostalgic references to a time when new york's alternative culture was much more vibrant. it conveys a sense of a monument whose glory days are over. on a december night back in 1980, i stood here in front of the dakota apartment building on new york's upper west side and reported live for bbc news on the devastating reality that the former beatlejohn lennon had been shot dead as he...

About wealthy people, you know, so it will bejust one kind of population that will be displaced. and so we will lose this creative energy somehow that made the chelsea, actually. the documentary shows the chelsea hotel in a state of limbo as the renovation proceeds. there's a lot of ghosts going on around here. could you feel anything? yeah. many of the residents featured, past and present, express a strong affection for the institution. they tried to move all the residents to the first floor, because when the hotel opens, it's going to be very fancy and expensive. it's sort of an environment ...

Including musicians. among them, 1960s folk song iconjudy collins, who appears in the documentary. # she leads you to the river...# she played a pivotal role in encouraging cohen to perform in public. i told him he had to sing. he didn't want to sing. he said, "i have a terrible voice." i said, "it's not a terrible voice." # 0h, people, i've been here before...# "it's a little eccentric, but it's a great voice. "and you have to use it. "you have to sing these songs." # i used to live alone before i knew you...# i believe he knew of your film project, didn't he, before he died? presumably the h...

Leonard cohen. # it goes like this, the fourth, the fifth # the minorfall... leonard cohen, who died in 2016, performing his mesmerising hallelujah — a hymn cast in a popularform, which has been covered by numerous other artists. # hallelujah...# this documentary is an exploration of that song and also a portrait of cohen himself. how do you understand the song hallelujah? oh, gosh. i mean, i think in the same way that leonard took it from a more religiously encompassing set of lyrics to a more secular version. i think it has every single thing in it, from, you know, the sex to the saint, so...