Resident Alien
- Released on
- Runtime
- 83 mins
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.
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.
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
- Sally Jessy Raphael
- Shi Ringer
- Tom Steele
- Al Goldstein
- Paul Morrissey
- Lenny Dean
- Robert Patrick
- Penny Arcade
- Patrick Angus
- Paul Bridgewater
- Orshi Drozdick
- Emile de Antonio
- David McDermott
- Peter McGough
- Trey Spiegel
- Franco the Great
- Holly Woodlawn
- Vincent Hanlon
Director
- Jonathan Nossiter
Producers
- Jonathan Nossiter
