Yesterday I posted the Kerouac piece from the Steve Allen show, but during the same conversation I had about that segment, I mentioned a documentary I had seen several months ago that really fascinated me featuring Henry Miller. I've included the trailer and a brief synopsis of the film below. After the paragraph on the documentary, I included the bathroom monologues, as they were my favourite scenes of the picture. Whether one thinks he was a talented iconoclastic fiction writer or an indecent literary pornographer, you cannot deny his ability as a storyteller in his novels or in his oral narratives documented in "...Asleep & Awake".
See for yourself...
"Henry Miller Asleep & Awake" is a voyage of ideas about life, writing, sex, spirituality, nightmares, and New York that captures the warmth, vigor and high animal spirits of an American artist. Henry Miller guides us through his bathroom, covered with photos and drawings collected by the author. He points out the highlights of both this gallery and his life in this documentary by Tom Schiller.
To learn more or download, visit http://www2.indiepix.net/film/3121
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
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