 It was during the filming that Nossiter met Quentin Crisp, who later became the star of his first feature film, "Resident Alien", a hybrid fiction-documentary also starring John Hurt and Holly Woodlawn.Theatrically released in 1991, after premieres at the Berlin and Toronto Film Festivals, "Resident Alien", which he wrote, produced and directed, is a comic portrait of the last, tattered days of New York’s bohemian underground.It was rereleased in 2005 on DVD in the US in an edition with a later, twinned film "Losing The Thread", a comedy about art world follies and the triumph of tourism in Florence, Italy.