(Resident Alien)

Content: 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.

Countries:

United States of America

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

83 minutes

Year:

1990

Directors:

Jonathan Nossiter

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Production companies:

Crisp City Productions

Actors:

Self

The Bum

Man on Street

Street Performer

Street Performer

Crews:

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

Director

Co-Producer

Producer