Resident AlienMovie
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.
About Resident Alien
Resident Alien is a 1990 documentary movie directed by Jonathan Nossiter.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 23m, production credits from United States of America, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Quentin Crisp, Peter Walker, Gilbert Stafford, Gus Rogerson. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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