Resident Alien
Resident Alien
A Documentary film released in 1990, Resident Alien runs 1h 23m and comes from the United States. Soap2Day lists it with Jonathan Nossiter directing and Quentin Crisp and Peter Walker in the cast. It holds 5.7/10 from 12 votes. 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.
- Genre: Documentary
- Country: United States of America
- Director: Jonathan Nossiter
- Cast: Quentin Crisp, Peter Walker, Gilbert Stafford, Gus Rogerson, Michaela Murphy, John Sex, Felicity Mason, Fran Lebowitz, Guy Kettelhack, John Hurt, Richard Seiburth, Hunter Madson
