Resident Alien

Resident Alien (1990)


  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 1990-09-14
  • User Rating: 5.3/10 from 6 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 23min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Crisp City Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Jonathan Nossiter
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Summary

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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  • Quentin Crisp

    as Self
  • Peter Walker

    as The Bum
  • Gilbert Stafford

    as Man on Street
  • Gus Rogerson

    as Street Performer
  • Michaela Murphy

    as Street Performer
  • John Sex

    as Self
  • Felicity Mason

    as Dinner Hostess / Writer
  • Fran Lebowitz

    as Writer
  • Guy Kettelhack

    as Writer
  • John Hurt

    as Actor
  • Richard Seiburth

    as Professor
  • Hunter Madson

    as Writer
  • Sting

    as Singer
  • Michael Musto

    as Gossip Columnist
  • Sally Jessy Raphael

    as Talk Show Host (archive footage)
  • Shi Ringer

    as Gay Activist
  • Tom Steele

    as Publisher
  • Al Goldstein

    as Pornographer
  • Paul Morrissey

    as Self
  • Lenny Dean

    as Cabaret Performer
  • Robert Patrick

    as Playwright
  • Penny Arcade

    as Performance Artist
  • Patrick Angus

    as Painter
  • Paul Bridgewater

    as Gallery Owner
  • Orshi Drozdick

    as Sculptor
  • Emile de Antonio

    as Filmmaker
  • David McDermott

    as Painter
  • Peter McGough

    as Painter
  • Trey Spiegel

    as Painters' Friend
  • Franco the Great

    as Painter
  • Holly Woodlawn

    as Performer / Actor
  • Vincent Hanlon

    as Self
Camera John Foster Director of Photography
Camera Frank Prinzi Director of Photography
Directing Jonathan Nossiter Director
Production Dean Silvers Co-Producer
Production Jonathan Nossiter Producer
Writing Jonathan Nossiter Writer
Editing Jonathan Nossiter Editor

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