Born Denis Charles Pratt, Quentin Crisp was a writer, an artist's model, an actor and a raconteur. He became a gay icon after the publication of his memoir, The Naked Civil Servant in 1968, and even more of a celebrity when the book was filmed in 1975 with John Hurt in the starring role. This documentary asks how such a public figure - and a queer icon - fits into ideas of family, and in particular into his own family. Through an exploration of photographs, home movies and interviews with relatives, UNCLE DENIS? reflects on how traditions of familial memory-making intersect with the more public image-fashioning of one of the twentieth century's most determinedly self-made men.
Adrian Goycoolea
Director
Quentin Crisp
Adrian Goycoolea
Michelle Goyocolea-Crawford
Elaine Pratt
Frances Ramsay
Sherman's March65%
Sidney70%
Dawg Fight65%
A Plastic Ocean75%
The Class of ‘9271%
McQueen74%
Public Speaking70%
The Curious Birth of Benjamin Button69%
I Am Heath Ledger74%
Love, Antosha74%
The Cheshire Murders65%
Directed by John Ford70%
John Candy: I Like Me79%
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood59%
Report61%
Seduced and Abandoned62%
In the Realms of the Unreal71%
Evil Influencer: The Jodi Hildebrandt Story62%
Tabloid64%
The Summers of It - Chapter Two: It Ends71%
