Henry Miller in a Paris Review of Books interview in London, September 1961 on film:What I deplore most is the medium of film has never been properly exploited. It's a poetic medium with all sorts of possibilities. Just think of the element of dream and fantasy. But how often do we get it? Now and then a little touch of it, and we're agape. And think of the technical devices at our command. But my God, we haven't even begun to use them. We could do incredible marvels, wonders, limitless joy and beauty. But what do we get? Sheer crap. The film is the freest of all media, you can do marvels with it. In fact, I would welcome the day film would replace literature, when there'd be no more to read. You remember faces in film, and gestures, as you never do when you read a book. If film can hold you at all, you give yourself completely to it. Even when you listen to music, it's not like that. You go to the concert hall, the atmosphere is bad, people are yawning, or falling asleep, the program is too long, it hasn't got the things you like, and so on. You know what I mean. But in the cinema, sitting there in the dark, the images are coming and going, it's like a rain of meteorites hitting you.
The tapestry, by Miller, above is for sale for $50,000 at www.henrymiller.info (from his daughter). Miller features albeit very remotely in a current Cinechicks' project that has yet to be announced on the website.
