Resident Alien

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp became an Englishman in New York. We follow 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 and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, his life as an gay man, and his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering. (imdb)