Resident Alien

Resident Alien

🎞️ Movie 85 min US
โ˜… 6.7 /10 1990

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Rossiter'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
Quentin Crisp
Self
Self
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Peter Walker
The Bum
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Gilbert Stafford
Man on Street
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Gus Rogerson
Street Performer
John Sex
John Sex
Self
Self
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Felicity Mason
Self
Self - Dinner Hostess
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Felicity Mason
Self
Writer
Fran Lebowitz
Fran Lebowitz
Self
Self - Writer
John Hurt
John Hurt
Self
Self - Actor
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John Foster
Cinematographer
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Frank Prinzi
Cinematographer