Resident Alien
Resident Alien
Release: 1990-09-14
·Runtime: 83m
·★ 4.7
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
Production Companies
Crisp City Productions
Cast
Fran Lebowitz
as Writer
Sally Jessy Raphael
as Talk Show Host (archive footage)
John Hurt
as Self - Actor
Sting
as Singer
Emile de Antonio
as Filmmaker
Quentin Crisp
as Self
John Sex
as Self
Paul Morrissey
as Self
Michael Musto
as Gossip Columnist
Peter Walker
as The Bum
Al Goldstein
as Pornographer
