An Englishman in New York (2008)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 2
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In 1975, John Hurt starred in a BBC television adaptation of Quentin Crisp's autobiography The Naked Civil Servant, playing the flamboyantly gay author and actor, and in 2009 Hurt revisits the role in this comedy-drama based on the latter years of Crisp's life. Crisp rose to fame in the UK following the publication of his memoirs and the success of a one-man show, but when a series of typically frank but witty quips during an interview lead to a public scandal, Crisp is approached by an American
Apr 27, 2009 Wide
Feb 23, 2010
Breaking Glass Pictures
Cast
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John Hurt
Quentin Crisp -
Denis O'Hare
Phillip Steele -
Swoosie Kurtz
Connie Clausen -
Cynthia Nixon
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All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (2)
Hurt's perf gives some dramatic continuity to a production that is more a succession of setpieces than a through-drama per se -- at least until its affecting later stages.
Top CriticIt deserves to be seen for another of Hurt's exquisitely observed performances.
Hurt is so comfortable as Crisp, that he exceeds even the real Quentin Crisp in charm and clueless vulnerability. Hurt adds irony to a scene about gay cloning, because in a sense, we prefer Hurt to the original.
Oh yes, John Hurt is Quentin Crisp.
Quality roles for John Hurt must be at a severe minimum if the greatly underutilized actor needs to revisit his 1975 triumph as gay icon Quentin Crisp.
Falls somewhere between unbearable and fascinating.
This fresh look at the gay culture and its desired goals establishes profound insight into what it means to be a true-to-spirit man these days, no matter if he happens to wear a little lipstick and maybe a scarf or two.
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- Quentin Crisp: Persistence is your greatest weapon. It is in the nature of barriers that they fall. Do not seek to become like your opponents. You have the burden and the great joy of being outsiders. Every day you live as a kind of triumph. This you should cling onto. You should make no effort to try and join society. Stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to form itself around you. Because it will most certainly will. Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where this is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside that you want but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
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Even though much trauma still happens, this is still the "warm and fuzzy" entry, whereas the first one was very cold and hard.
And sadly did not qualify for the "Hot Gay Sex' list.