Hotel Monterey

Hotel Monterey is a 1973[2] American silent documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman.[3] It is Akerman's first feature film.

This article is about the 1973 silent film directed by Chantal Akerman. For the historic hotel in Virginia, see Monterey Hotel.
Hotel Monterey
Directed byChantal Akerman
Produced byChantal Akerman
Written byChantal Akerman
CinematographyBabette Mangolte
Edited byGeneviève Luciani
Release date
  • 11 June 1989 (1989-06-11) (USA)
[1]
Running time
62 minutes
CountryBelgium
USA
LanguageSilent

In 2013, an article in the Village Voice stated that Hotel Monterey, along with two other Akerman films, La Chambre and News from Home are a "not-to-be-missed event" as part of MoMa's “To Save and Project” film series.[4]

Synopsis

The film consists of a series of silent long takes shot in a hotel in New York City. Shots are meticulously staged to create visual patterns and optical illusions as the film slowly explores several different parts of the hotel, ranging from austere and claustrophobic basement corridors to busy skylines shot from the rooftop.

Location

The hotel is now a Days Inn in New York City.[5]

Release

The Criterion Collection released it through their Eclipse series in 2010, as part of a set titled Chantal Akerman in the Seventies. The set included four feature films Akerman directed in the 1970s as well as a number of short films.[6]

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See also
  • List of Eclipse releases

References
  1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068725/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf
  2. Cinéma, n° 180, septembre–octobre 1973; La Revue du Cinéma/Image et Son, n° 275, septembre 1973.
  3. https://www.criterion.com/films/20977-hotel-monterey
  4. "Chantal Akerman's New York". www.villagevoice.com. Retrieved 2018-03-17.
  5. http://thevoid99.blogspot.hk/2016/03/hotel-monterey.html
  6. Kehr, Dave (2010-01-31). "The Evolving Vision of a Belgian Auteur". The New York Times.


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