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Resident Alien (1990)

ALL 09/14/1990 (en) Documentary 83 Min
  • Release
    09/14/1990
  • Production
    Crisp City Productions
  • Rotten tomato
    53%
  • Original title
    Resident Alien
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

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Casts

  1. Quentin Crisp

    Self

  2. Peter Walker

    The Bum

  3. Gilbert Stafford

    Man on Street

  4. Gus Rogerson

    Street Performer

  5. Michaela Murphy

    Street Performer

  6. John Sex

    Self

  7. Felicity Mason

    Dinner Hostess / Writer

  8. Fran Lebowitz

    Writer

  9. Guy Kettelhack

    Writer

  10. John Hurt

    Actor

  11. Richard Seiburth

    Professor

  12. Hunter Madson

    Writer

  13. Sting

    Singer

  14. Michael Musto

    Gossip Columnist

  15. Sally Jessy Raphael

    Talk Show Host (archive footage)

  16. Shi Ringer

    Gay Activist

  17. Tom Steele

    Publisher

  18. Al Goldstein

    Pornographer

  19. Paul Morrissey

    Self

  20. Lenny Dean

    Cabaret Performer

  21. Robert Patrick

    Playwright

  22. Penny Arcade

    Performance Artist

  23. Patrick Angus

    Painter

  24. Paul Bridgewater

    Gallery Owner

  25. Orshi Drozdick

    Sculptor

  26. Emile de Antonio

    Filmmaker

  27. David McDermott

    Painter

  28. Peter McGough

    Painter

  29. Trey Spiegel

    Painters' Friend

  30. Franco the Great

    Painter

  31. Holly Woodlawn

    Performer / Actor

  32. Vincent Hanlon

    Self

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 32 , Crews : 7

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Resident Alien (1990) 83 Min

ALL 09/14/1990 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 09/14/1990
  • Production
    Crisp City Productions
  • Original title Resident Alien
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Jonathan Nossiter

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Jonathan Nossiter

    Editor

  4. Jonathan Nossiter

    Producer



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