Part II - Brenda Venus - Dinner With Henry Miller 1979 - PART II

Dinner With Henry is a rare, 30-minute documentary about Henry Miller. It is exactly what the title implies: footage of Henry having dinner. With him at the table is the film crew, and actress/model Brenda Venus, to whom Henry was enamoured in the final years of life. Henry - at age 87 - spends the majority of his time speaking on a number of subjects, the most persistent of which is Blaise Cendrars. Occasionally, he complains about the food. That is all. It may not be of much interest to a general audience, but is a curious "slice of life" for any Miller fan who likes to imagine being at the table with him.

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• Cancer
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[rancorcell]

love you henry

[nedmanxxx]

Blaise Cendrars

[abovebelow1]

He's a magician, this man. Dontcha know?

[Mazurka1001]

Cendrars talks too much and says nothing.

[youngfrankmcclintock]

dont you know?? class - no we dont thats why this video is brilliant

[kellymich]

Quite interesting to see this. Thank you for posting. One gets a glimpse of the man (and his somewhat awkward playboy bunny dinner companion. )

Miller writes beautiful and interesting prose in a style which is perhaps most indebted to Louis Celine. He is an extremely opinionated man and some of those opinions I could Frankly do without. But he is fascinating nonetheless and certainly a very talented writer.

[duaneburnett]

his comments on labor are rather funny considering his

own "uneven" and fitful work history .

[kulcousy]

Miller saved my soul 40 years ago. Just his writings. Never having heard him speak this shows him as a truly warm unpretentious man, fully deserving of the aclaim he is accorded.

The characters he described and the conditions are still vivid though I haven't read him for years.

Thanks for this video

[holden1787]

He's referring to Blaise Cendrars, a major author by the time Miller published Tropic of Cancer, who promoted Miller's work early on. Miller refers to Cendrars in his letters to Anais Nin as being his favorite author.

[1trebori]

Frédéric Louis Sauser (1887 1961), better known as Blaise Cendrars.