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THE QUENTIN CRISP ARCHIVES

MOVIES INSPIRED BY
QUENTIN CRISP

Quentin Crisp performed in several movies. Click here to see a list of those movies.
Other filmmakers have been inspired to make movies about him. Read about them below!

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THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT John Hurt won a BAFTA award for his role in this film which is based on Quentin Crisp's autobiography, The Naked Civil Servant. Hilarious and shocking for its day, this film was a breakthrough in TV's treatment of homosexuality. The BBC declined the offer to make it, while the IBA censored a line from Philip Mackie's witty script: "Sexual intercourse is a poor substitute for masturbation." The director Jack Gold scooped a BAFTA too. Verity Lambert executive produced, while Carl Davis composed the music.
	RESIDENT ALIEN At age 73, Quentin Crisp moved to the States where became an "Englishman in New York." In this film, director Jonathan Nossiter follows Mr. Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where he 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 Mr. 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 absolute wit and of suffering.
BECOMING QUENTIN This documentary, Becoming Quentin, follows David Leddick in the process of creating his one-man musical stage show about his twenty-year friendship with Quentin Crisp: "Quentin & I." Also included on this recording is rare footage of Quentin Crisp performing his own one-man show, "An Evening with Quentin Crisp."
	THE SIGNIFICANT DEATH OF QUENTIN CRISP Tim Fountain interviews family and friends about the last days of Quentin Crisp in this short film called The Significant Death of Quentin Crisp. Also incorporated is footage from the short film by Nathan Evans called "Meeting with Mr. Crisp" (Tim Fountain and Bette Bourne travel from London to New York City to interview Quentin Crisp in preparation for the stage adaptation of Mr. Crisp's book Resident Alien). Directed by Nathan Evans and presented by Tim Fountain, this short documentary was first broadcast on Channel Four in 2001.

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