Resident Alien (film)
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Genre Documentary Director Jonathan Nossiter Producer Jonathan Nossiter | 7/10 IMDb Duration Running time 1h 25m Cinematography John Foster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Initial release October 18, 1991 (New York City) Cast Quentin Crisp (Himself), John Hurt (Himself), Sting (Himself)Similar movies Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride , This Is Not a Dream , Çürük - The Pink Report , Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker , Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton's Cafeteria , Philadelphia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Resident Alien is a 1990 documentary film directed, produced and edited by Jonathan Nossiter, and co-produced by Dean Silvers.
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Plot
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908–1999), became an Englishman in New York. John Foster'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 one of wit and of suffering.
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