Resident Alien
1990/09/14 • Released • English
Overview
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.
Director : Jonathan Nossiter
Casts
Quentin Crisp
Self
Peter Walker
The Bum
John Sex
Self
Fran Lebowitz
Writer
John Hurt
Actor
Sting
Singer
Michael Musto
Gossip Columnist
Al Goldstein
Pornographer
Paul Morrissey
Self
Emile de Antonio
Filmmaker
Holly Woodlawn
Performer / Actor
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