Resident Alien
1990 | 83m | English
Popularity: 0.5 (history)
| Director: | Jonathan Nossiter |
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| Writer: | Jonathan Nossiter |
| Staring: |
| 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. | |
| Release Date: | Sep 14, 1990 |
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| Director: | Jonathan Nossiter |
| Writer: | Jonathan Nossiter |
| Genres: | Documentary |
| Keywords | biography, lgbt |
| Production Companies | Crisp City Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2024 (Update) Entered: Apr 25, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
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| Quentin Crisp | Self |
| Peter Walker | The Bum |
| Gilbert Stafford | Man on Street |
| Gus Rogerson | Street Performer |
| Michaela Murphy | Street Performer |
| John Sex | Self |
| Felicity Mason | Dinner Hostess / Writer |
| Fran Lebowitz | Writer |
| Guy Kettelhack | Writer |
| John Hurt | Actor |
| Richard Seiburth | Professor |
| Hunter Madson | Writer |
| Sting | Singer |
| Michael Musto | Gossip Columnist |
| Sally Jessy Raphael | Talk Show Host (archive footage) |
| Shi Ringer | Gay Activist |
| Tom Steele | Publisher |
| Al Goldstein | Pornographer |
| Paul Morrissey | Self |
| Lenny Dean | Cabaret Performer |
| Robert Patrick | Playwright |
| Penny Arcade | Performance Artist |
| Patrick Angus | Painter |
| Paul Bridgewater | Gallery Owner |
| Orshi Drozdick | Sculptor |
| Emile de Antonio | Filmmaker |
| David McDermott | Painter |
| Peter McGough | Painter |
| Trey Spiegel | Painters' Friend |
| Franco the Great | Painter |
| Holly Woodlawn | Performer / Actor |
| Vincent Hanlon | Self |
| Name | Job |
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| Jonathan Nossiter | Writer, Director, Editor |
| John Foster | Director of Photography |
| Frank Prinzi | Director of Photography |
| Name | Title |
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| Jonathan Nossiter | Producer |
| Dean Silvers | Co-Producer |
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