Resident Alien
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1990-09-14
Runtime: 83 mins
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Writer: Jonathan Nossiter
Spoken language: English
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Resident Alien
Production Companies: Crisp City Productions
Production Countries: United States of America
Cast
Quentin Crisp
Peter Walker
Gilbert Stafford
Gus Rogerson
Michaela Murphy
John Sex
Felicity Mason
Fran Lebowitz
Guy Kettelhack
John Hurt
Richard Seiburth
Hunter Madson
Sting
Michael Musto
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