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Movie: An Englishman in New York (2009)

• Director: Richard Laxton
• Run Time: 75 min | Argentina:74 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) | Germany:74 min (Berlin International Film Festival)
• Country: UK
• Genre: Drama  

Trivia: A continuation concerning the latter part of his life in New York City during the 1980s and 1990s.
 

Goofs: Incorrectly regarded as goofs: In the early minutes of the film, Quentin Crisp is entering the office of his London agent, who says, “Some people in New York. They’ve just shown Civil Servant on cable.” This is possible because this follow-up movie is set in the early 1980s, not 1976 as some viewers have assumed.
 

“Following the success of his television biography ‘The Naked Civil Servant’ Quentin Crisp is invited to America to lecture on How To Be Happy, and falls in love with New York’s more permissive ambience. Agent Connie Clausen enables him to be a ‘resident alien’, writing film reviews and dispensing words of wisdom. Curious about but impervious to trends, he describes AIDS as a “fad, nothing more”, actually to divert heterosexual anger but he is misinterpreted and reviled by many gays. A return to popularity occurs when he helps Patrick Angus, a young,AIDS-afflicted artist attain fame for his paintings and his healthy cynicism is marketed by performance artist Penny Arcade, putting him back in the limelight. Poor health causes him to refuse a lecture tour of England but he gives a triumphant final audience at a gay club in Tampa.A postscript informs that he died at the age of 91. Written by don @ minifie-1″