Sep 14, 1990
83 min
Full-HD

Resident Alien (1990)

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.

Category

Documentary

Country

United States of America

Companies

Crisp City Productions

Quentin Crisp

Self

Peter Walker

The Bum

Gilbert Stafford

Man on Street

Gus Rogerson

Street Performer

Michaela Murphy

Street Performer

John Sex

Self

Felicity Mason

Dinner Hostess / Writer

Fran Lebowitz

Writer

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