Gay ICON! An Englishman In New York (Full Movie) Biography, Drama, LGBTQ | John Hurt, Cynthia Nixon 

Very Good Actor...but he's acting. I Never confused him with Quentin. Quentin LIVED IT and...It came through him.

You are absolutly rigth !

I'd throw in Tilda Swinton as Orlando, and Quentin as Queen Elizabeth I too!!

I so agree

@@lovelyweeburd and now Toby Jones as Alan Bates

Well said. Great comment.

spot on most people were shocked when he did not and for the the first movie of quenin crisp

@@eclark3849 yes.i remember that

I’m starting to believe he was the finest actor ever from the UK

The older I get, the more I appreciate just how great he was.

​​@@seanmwh Surely you have never seen Austin Powers. Mike Myers......... the finest actor the British Isle has to offer. Almost as fine a British actor since Richard Chamberlain.

Yes, that’s such a perfect way to end this magnificent tribute to a Legend. Well Done John Hurt - RIP to both great men ❤️

John Hurt did great justice to both Q C films as well as Elephant Man and many other touching performances 🙏🏻

Yes, that young artist, Patrick Angus, was so talented, indeed (his work was, somewhat, evocative to the early work by Tom of Finland); so sad he died so young!

I found it beautiful in the face of Horror,Fear w ppl who had AIDS,how they were mis treated,un cared for,ect yet they they stood and helped each other out seeing the gov wasn't doing enough. Was so tragic but beautiful all at the same time. I loath ppl having to suffer & not enough care is given & that goes w ppl in physical pain & thanks to Gov rules there not helped,like it's there Fault some w abuse drug's,so take them away it's awful. Yet I'd bet some goto the streets for something hoping it helps them & fetanol is back & it's been least the 80s probably before then... makes Me Angry.... ✌

Christopher well said. I too am a straight man and Quentin Crisp has been a hero of mine for decades. His charisma, strength, and indomitable character made him so for me. Then, to have discovered how incredibly witty he was added the icing to the cake. He was a true original.

RIP both indeed... John Hurt, Mr. Crisp's "representative here on earth"!

RIP, Shaun.

​@@ZJStrudwickthey're both burning in hell

​@@mcata3625You are evil.

Sorry for you loss but I have to say that is cool my uncle meet him in New York and London.

He was brilliant!! Interview with him....... Q: Mr Crisp, I hear you aren't much of a fan of housecleaning. A: I find, after the first inch and a half of dust, it never seems to grow any higher. BRILLIANT...... AND TRUE !!!!

Where was that interview published?

Wow ! So lucky! The clone scene in this film is super profound! There is a re-emergence of feminine gays now. They are actually getting the real men they want by calling themselves trans now! Lol!

Hmmmmm

Both of them demonic and same or worse than Jimmy saville. Every creature on British films is the same.

John Hurt is dead? I watch so few movies that I had no idea

@@LLS710 John Hurt passed in 2017. Now I have an urge to rummage through his films R.I.P. John Hurt , R.I.P Quentin Crisp . (From a fellow expat.)

if how you "identify" isn't based on reality and is opposite of truth - you won't be happy. duh

@Ann Smith. I completely agree. I wish life was: You do you and I do me, but there are people who don’t feel that way. I am for everyone doing what they need to be happy. As long as they don’t hurt others, why not?

@@shananalexander9789 🤍ONLY LOVE🤍 🤍can be so honest🤍 🤍he loved his fellow people,warts and all🤍

Yep, some might call it "codependency".

But making the same role figure twice (films 1975 and 2009) is something remarkable!

I got a crush on him from this movie.

Same here

amazing.. he is still the best Caligula

@@elizabethpengson8244 He was Caligula

So true.

How very marvelous for you to have these memories in your hold.

@@petunia8425 thanks. He was indeed a proper gentleman with amazing perseverance and a very amusing sense of humor.

How wonderful you had been lucky to meet a lovely soul and such a gentle person

Wonderful you had the chance. I imagine he wasn't!

You got to know Quentin?!

I don't think he was ever forgotten. I started reading Crisp when I was 15 or 16 (2002). Mainstream media is not the place to look for witty heroes as they only show us the current flavor

I think when Mr Crisp was well known, it was probably because people saw him as an outrageous, 'camp' comedy figure, a bit like a real-life version of 'Honky-Tonks' in 'The Dick Emery Show'. Whereas nowadays, those who know of Mr Crisp like him because of his profound and witty sayings about life, and his deep humility.

@@Londonfogey Not everyone back then saw Crisp as a campy, funny character. I read "The Naked Civil Servant" the year it was printed, & I admired his bravery for having lived as he chose to live, which had resulted in his being verbally assaulted countless times by strangers who were furious that a man would dress as he did & would dare to assume feminine manners. Of course he also got beat up repeatedly for his daring to dress & act the way he found most natural for himself. For a man to wear traditional clothing for women & to have feminine mannerisms in public was against the law in the US, & such men who dared to appear in public places were often beaten up & sometimes killed. In fact, this still happens, just not as frequently. I had a close relative who was extremely feminine from early childhood, with his Christmas present at age 5 being a beautiful bride doll dressed in lavish bridal dress & veil. My sister & I, who had dolls but ordinary little girl dolls of the 1950s (before Barbie), were astounded at the big lavish bride doll because we'd never seen such a doll, but we weren't surprised Denis had received a doll for Christmas. My sister & I were much less feminine than he was in all matters, including mannerisms & choice of toys. Denis remained very feminine all his life. He was in fact almost identical to his mother in mannerisms, & she was super-feminine. The only problem I had with Quintin Crisp's writings, interviews, etc, was his tendency to claim that all gay men were like him in being feminine & in being intent on finding a straight man ("a real man") to love them. There are as many kinds of gay men as there are straight men, but gay men who don't conform to straight stereotypes of gay men are seldom noticed as being gay by straight society. Same with lesbians: most do not conform to the stereotypes. There are lesbians who are very feminine, lesbians who are very masculine, but most fall into the middle grounds, just as most other women do. I'd heard of Quintin Crisp before I read his first book, as a close friend had known him when she was attending school in London. He had often been a model for studio classes. That would've been in the '70s, about '70-74. My friend had gone on to study & to apprentice in art conservation in the national program in Italy, before returning to N.O. in the late '70s. As others have commented, Crisp has served as a guide & hero for anyone who doesn't fit into normal society, that is, for anyone who thinks & lives outside the accepted norms. But for the LGBTQ community at the time his first book was published, he provided a very helpful guide re how to be yourself no matter how much society & the law threatened you (or worse). Crisp certainly had a wonderful sense of humour & was very intelligent re how important it was to be yourself, however rejected by society. His works made a profound difference in the lives of millions, whatever their gender-identity or their queerness (in all senses of the term).

I think my father liked his dapper style and started regularly wearing a cravat after he retired.

What did Quentin think of gay women....? Anybody recall?

marvelous

So much so, he played him twice!

Must have been a hard gig being gay in the Appalachians. 😬

Thnx! Good to know.

Babavee100, my thoughts as well.

They were both witty but in terms of their homosexuality I think they were quite different...

Indeed, possibly true, there is much of Oscar Wilde in Q C’s pronouncements

I live my life by the "four years dust" rule... I just hadn't figured on the mice and cockroaches though! 😉

I would love to have met him too! A genius and a gentleman!

U can watch long kiss good night starring geena Davis of telma and Louis fame and samuel L Jackson must watch action movie. Old movie got released in probably 1996 . Definitely u will love the movie. Narrow margin starring gene hack men ultimate suspense movie. He got ocsar for best actor for French Connection movie. He acted in. Primal fear starring Richard Gere and Edward Norton is also good thriller.this movie is based on spilt personality.usual suspects ultimate thriller starring Kevin Spacey is also Good Suspense movie. MOVIE Jeopardy Starring Ashley judd and Tommy Lee Jones IS OSM Thriller MOVIESS

@@nickbell3052 Thanks, I will check them out

You DO realise, John played this role TWICE, in both films!

Yes I loved the song by Sting at the end and a great movie.

Indeed, Sting’s song is the perfect finale of this wonderful film 🎉

Thanks for watching and for your comments

Indeed. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

QC was extremely pleased with this as well.

WHY ARE WE SHOUTING 😮😮😂

​@@Josh-rn1emWE DON'T SHOUT.WE SPEAK LOUDLY SO THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK ROWS CAN HEAR US.🕺🕺🕺🕺🕺

Yup, John played Quentin twice!

Very Strong Oscar Wilde energies in Q C’s dress style and sentiments expressed

you the young artist that part of the film had me stop and made tea very very touching wonder if this part of the film was real ... if it happened ...

And Tucker is SO beautiful I could cry for weeks;-)

@@monikaszymanowska5142 cute he is indeed. ❤️❤️❤️

Exactly. Seeing that made me realize that there’s ALWAYS been clones in one fashion or another, in the gay world.

Absolutely it makes zero sense. In Southeast Asia, Thailand and Philippines etc as well as South America feminine homosexuals embrace their femininity and transition young. Where it’s socially acceptable more homosexuals will transition, in the west where “being a gay man is better” less do. Ofc there is a difference between a trans and a gay but in those cultures they view other gays like sisters and they transition and get with Hetero men. (Who are what gays really want anyway) in the west we force feminine boys to “man up” their entire lives, self police their behaviors, voice and mannerisms, and then it happens again in the grindr gay scene. “Masc for masc” so you end up with a bunch of little feminine boys who are acting out a faux masculinity. Prior to the 1970s homosexuals were highly effeminate starting with eunuchs in Rome. They went with heterosexual men, since being in a gay relationship really wasn’t an option it was all basically behind closed doors. I don’t see the point of forcing gay men to hide a part of themselves. Most gay men play with Barbies as kids then call themselves “straight acting masc for masc” as adults after years of being broken and molded into what they think people want. Very sad culture and if you are a feminine gay boy other places you embrace your femininity and get the men you actually want. Grindr culture “masc or fem” “top or btm” grates away at gay men’s sanity little by little when most of them just want an actual masculine man to treat them like a princess deep down. So you have a sea of bottoms looking for a top, and a bunch of fem guys putting on fake deep voices to TRY to pass as masc to obtain another guy TRYING to pass as masc! Makes no sense! We have it wrong, other cultures have it right.

No, Q C WAS well out of line with the ‘AIDS is a Fad’ so very painful to those loosing partners, friends and family.

Hilarious!

Nice in-joke at 16:30

Didn’t that movie also have Anthony Hopkins?

Yes, watching this reminded me of his very touching performance in Elephant Man too 💓

Totally agree shaun

Wonderfully put! Thnx.

it's so well done, one of the few biopic series where the actor and real person are quite close in resemblance and mannerisms, i wish he'd won an award

Cue John Lennon.

Im not sure what you mean by true morals tbh

Are you really wearing those “being LGBT is a lifestyle choice” people?

Being gay isn't a choice. If you truly believe that you really need to educate yourself.

Choice??

So glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching!

i agree i love that too.

So glad you found it and enjoyed it now!

So true. No matter whether you are gay, lesbian, bisexual, heterosexual, etc.

Hormones

Touché.

I found this to be true.

🤔👍🇬🇧

So glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching.