Resident Alien (1990)
Synopsis
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.
Release Date: 1990-09-14
Runtime: 83 minutes
Director: Jonathan Nossiter
Top Cast
- Quentin Crisp as Self
- Peter Walker as The Bum
- Gilbert Stafford as Man on Street
- Gus Rogerson as Street Performer
- Michaela Murphy as Street Performer
- John Sex as Self
- Felicity Mason as Dinner Hostess / Writer
- Fran Lebowitz as Writer
- Guy Kettelhack as Writer
- John Hurt as Self - Actor
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