Research Catalog

Title

Dinner with Henry Miller [videorecording] / produced by John Chesko and Robert Young.

Publication

Big Sur, Calif. : Henry Miller Library [distributor], 1984.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Young, Richard.
• Chesko, John.
• Venus, Brenda.
• Henry Miller Memorial Library.

Description

1 videocassette (ca. 30 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.

Summary

Records Miller and Brenda Venus at dinner discussing wine, Blaise Cendrars, Knut Hamsun, D. H. Lawrence, death, Parisian prostitutes, on not winning the Nobel Prize, etc.

Alternative Title

Dinner with Henry

Subjects

• Nobel Prizes > Political aspects
• Wine > Sweden
• Women > Sweden
• Wine > United States
• Prostitutes > France > Paris
• Montmartre (Paris, France) > Anecdotes
• Death
• Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 > Religion
• Jesus Christ > Character
• Miller, Henry, 1891-1980
• Wine > France
• Hamsun, Knut, 1859-1952 > Appreciation
• Blue collar workers > United States
• Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961 > Appreciation

Note

• Title from title screen.
• Produced by John Chesko and Richard Young.
• With black-and-white photo portrait of Henry Miller on front of VHS container.
• Filmed in 1979, eight months before Henry Miller’s death on June 7, 1980; the last video showing Henry Miller.
• “Brenda Venus wrote about the filming of this dinner, in her 1986 book Dear, Dear Brenda: The Love Letters of Henry Miller. Although her placement of the anecdote implies that it took place at the end of 1977, Miller says on film that he's in his ‘88th year,’ which would place the filming year as 1979.”—from the UbuWeb Sound site.
• John Chesko was a production manager for Industrial Light and Magic, the special effects company started by George Lucas.
• A version of this film was distributed on VHS in 1984.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

System Details (note)

• VHS.

Call Number

Berg Coll Miller H D56 1992

OCLC

39652429

Title

Dinner with Henry Miller [videorecording] / produced by John Chesko and Robert Young.

Imprint

Big Sur, Calif. : Henry Miller Library [distributor], 1984.

System Details

VHS.

Local Note

Berg Collection copy signed ande dated by Richard Young.

Access

Restricted access; request permission in holding division.

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Added Author

Young, Richard.

Young, Richard. Signer

Chesko, John.

Venus, Brenda. Interviewer

Henry Miller Memorial Library.

Research Call Number

Berg Coll Miller H D56 1992