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VHS : The Naked Civil Servant |
List Price: $19.98Price: $4.99 You Save: $14.99 (75%)Prices subject to change.
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0026359106736
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: October 10, 2000
Running Time: 77 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Sales Rank: 18999
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Now stylishly re-packaged, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT celebrates the life of the late Quentin Crisp.
Starring John Hurt, in a performance that brought him international acclaim, THE NAKED CIVIL SERVANT tells the extraordinary true-life tale of this 20th Century Oscar Wilde.
Famous for his flamboyant personal style and witty, sharp-taloned observations, Quentin Crisp was never ashamed to be...Quentin Crisp.
"When I was coming to America, I went to the American Embassy and the man asked me 'Are you a practicing homosexual?' And I said I didn't practice. I was already perfect."
Quentin was outrageous at a time when England was easily outraged. But while some were in hiding, Quentin was in mascara. From art student to male prostitute, from commercial artist to artist's model, if exhibitionism was a drug, he would soon become a lifelong addict.
"A startling, thoroughly fascinating portrait of one of those exotic creatures who adamantly refuse to behave 'properly' in this world." - The New York Times (1976)
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Between Oscar Wilde and Boy George, Quentin Crisp was the most important gay icon in England. The TV movie The Naked Civil Servant, adapted from Crisp's autobiography and broadcast in 1975, had a significant social impact in the cause of gay rights, and it's easy to see why. Packed with witty aphorism but also unflinching in its portrayal of the verbal and physical abuse Crisp received for being an openly effeminate homosexual; throughout most of Crisp's life, simply being flamboyant was a political statement, one not always appreciated by other gay men who sought to pass unsuspected. The film briskly moves from when he stumbled into London's gay demimonde to his bohemian social world and career as an artist's model to a particularly superb scene when he was put on trial for solicitation. The Naked Civil Servant also brought the brilliant John Hurt, who played Crisp with intelligence and humanity, to wide acclaim. Hurt has since appeared in movies as diverse as Alien, The Elephant Man, V for Vendetta, and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, but Crisp remains a signature role for this unique actor. The fortuitous combination of Crisp and Hurt makes The Naked Civil Servant essential viewing. Extras on the dvd include a short television piece in which Crisp interviewed Tina Brown when she was editor of Vanity Fair and a sweet, reminiscing commentary by Hurt, director Jack Gold, and producer Verity Lambert. --Bret Fetzer
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How many people have led better lives thanks to dear Quentin Crisp? As a young fey gay man in the 1980's coping with AIDS and society that basically thought my friends and I deserved to die, Crisp was a gift from above. I read ALL of his books and he saved my life- not with gooey "gay is great" style PC posturing, but with an unvarnished wisdom that taught me the gay facts of life.
Like how I would never lead a normal life and that I should be gratful for that because normal life is ... Read More
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"Do you think a homosexual elephant has a terrible time of it?" Most of us undoubtedly have asked that question at one time or another, but I doubt if any except Quentin Crisp have asked it with such innocent interest. Crisp was, in his own words, an unregenerate degenerate. He was an English homosexual who saw no reason why he shouldn't be who he was. He was effeminate. He dressed flamboyantly, favoring broad-brimmed fedoras and flowing scarves. He wore make-up and hennaed his carefully coifed hair. ... Read More
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This made-for-television BBC film from the mid-'70s is worth viewing for John Hurt's acting skill alone.
I saw this on PBS' Masterpiece Theater over thirty years ago and was mesmerized.
Hurt was hot off the set of I, Claudius where his portrayal of Caius ("Caligula") is a wonder of the art of acting wherein he combined hubris, langour, madness, and humour--what a confection!
I, Claudius
Hurt is of course a working actor, and unfortunately he has not always ... Read More
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"The Naked Civil Servant"
Revisiting Quentin Crisp
Amos Lassen
Last night I figured it was time to drop in on Quentin Crisp again as I hadn't seen "The Naked Civil Servant" in about 12 years. The film was first broadcast on Public Television in about 1975 and caused quite a sensation. Quentin Crisp was a British gay man who came out in the 1920's and he, himself, introduces the film about his life but with John Hurt playing him. The film follows his life as he found ... Read More
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I knew Quentin Crisp at the end of his life (for about twenty-six months, we ending up going out to a dinner, flick or play with a party of friends practically every weekend), and John Hurt has him down pat in this glorious film. CIVIL SERVANT, in either its English tv incarnation or book version, was most Americans' introduction to the unique Mr. C., and remains both a great jumping-off place to begin exploring Crisp-World, and one of the best film biographies ever. Like Henry Higgins' definition of good ... Read More
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 0026359106736
Format: Color, NTSC
Label: Hbo Home Video
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: October 10, 2000
Running Time: 77 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video
Sales Rank: 18999
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