HENRY MILLER ASLEEP AND AWAKE

(1975) Director: Tom Schiller

SUMMARY:

Filmed when the author was 81, 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 a singular American artist. The man is Henry Miller and the room is his bathroom. It's a miraculous shrine covered with photos and drawings collected by the author over the course of his long and fruitful life. Graciously, in his raspy, sonorous voice, he points out the highlights of his improvised gallery, speaking of philosophers, writers, painters, mad kings, women, and friends.

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REVIEWS, INTERVIEWS, CREDITS:

• Dailymotion interview with director Tom Schiller (VIDEO)
• Tom Schiller Wikipedia page

NOTES:

• (Director) Tom Schiller grew up in LA and met Henry Miller when he was 18 assisting another filmmaker shooting at the author's home. Schiller's other works include documentaries on Willem de Kooning, Buckminster Fuller and Anais Nin, before joining Saturday Night Live as an original writer. There, he won three Emmy's and created the short film segments "Schiller's Reel" and "Schillervision" and worked with John Belushi, Bill Murray and Gilda Radner among others. Schiller later wrote and directed an MGM/UA feature film entitled "Nothing Lasts Forever" and has been directing television commercials for over a decade. He lives in New York City and Connecticut with his wife, Jacque.
• Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company: A Henry Miller Blog
• Henry Miller: Personal Collection
• The Henry Miller Library
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