Henry Miller's Quiet Days in Clichy

NOW UNCUT AND UNCENSORED!
Based on the Novel by Henry Miller
Original Music by Country Joe McDonald

Joey is a struggling writer with no money. His roommate Carl is a charming stud with a taste for young girls. Together, these two insatiable dreamers will laugh, love and screw their way through a decadent Paris paved with wanton women, wild orgies and outrageous erotic adventures. Based upon the long-banned novel by Henry Miller, QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY is considered to be the most daring film adaptation ever of one of the most controversial authors in history.

In May of 1970, the United States Government seized the only English-language prints of QUIET DAYS IN CLICHY on charges of obscenity. And while it was ultimately cleared in Federal Court, the film mysteriously disappeared shortly after its release. Now more than 30 years later, this landmark 'adults only' classic can again be seen completely uncut and uncensored and featuring the original hit soundtrack by rock legend Country Joe McDonald


EXTRAS

-Dirty Books, Dirty Movies: Barney Rosset on Henry Miller
-Interview with Henry Miller's editor and publisher Barney Rosset
-Songs of Clichy - Interview with Country Joe McDonald
-Poster & Still Gallery
-Talent Bios
-Court Documents (DVD-ROM)



Henry Miller has long been a favorite among many different segments of our lovely American Melting Pot. I remember reading Tropic of Cancer and listening to the poems of spoken word artists
in the old ONYX cafe in Los Feliz over on Vermont. This movie could have been made about those times. Those people. Some more than others, of course. But I digress...


Can you imagine what the world must have been like when this was actually banned? And to know it was banned in 1970, with the post 60's thing going on all over the country, well, then you can imagine what this film is. And, please keep in mind that the book was published 14 years before that!!

Quiet Days in Clichy, Paris: Olympia Press, 1956. ISBN 0-8021-3016-X

The film follows Carl and Joey (clearly meant to be Henry Miller) through a short period of time, as they work (off screen mostly) and the random encounters with women in the Paris cafes, clubs, and sidewalks. There is a scene where the boys, having decided to get out of Paris for a time following a rather harrowing encounter with the parents of one of their live-in girlfriends who inform them that she is only 15, find themselves in a Luxembourg night-club. The Saxophone player is none other than the legendary Ben Webster. This film, and it is a film, as opposed to a movie, is raw, real, and more in tune with the things men and women struggle with than most of its viewers may like to admit. Shot entirely in Black and white, with a very pertinent and story based soundtrack by Woodstock performer Country Joe McDonald. This film is GREAT. It is rich and something to be savored. Offered COMPLETELY uncut by the company that, at times like this one, makes me proud to work there - Blue Underground. The censors didnt like it. They didn't want you to see it. So come see a few weeks in the life of one of America's most celebrated authors, Mr. Henry Miller.