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'Hotel Monterey' is a 1973'Cinma', n 180, septembreoctobre 1973; 'La Revue du Cinma'/'Image et Son', n 275, septembre 1973. American silent documentary film directed by Chantal Akerman. It is Akerman's first feature film.

In 2013, Akerman introduced 'Hotel Monterey', along with two other films, 'La Chambre' and 'News from Home' at the [https://www.moma.org/calendar/film/1391 11th annual "Save and Project" film series] at the New York Museum of Modern Art.

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 hotel roomssome occupied, some notto skylines of neighboring building roofs and water towers shot from the rooftop.

Location



The hotel, located at 215 West 94th Street in Manhattan, opened in 1914 as the Hotel Apthorp. In 1916, the name changed to Hotel Monterey, the name it retained until 1976. By 2008, it had become Days Hotel, part of the Days Inn/Quality Inn chain.

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.

See also



* List of Eclipse releases

References




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