Garlic Is As Good As 10 Mothers
51min - USA
Screens with: The Blues According To Lightnin' Hopkins
Producer/Director: Les Blank 
Filmmaker Attending SCREENING ROOM
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Les Blank's lip-smacking foray into the history, consumption, cultivation and culinary/curative powers of the stinking rose. The SF Chronicle called this paean to garlic, "joyous, nose-tweaking, ear-tingling, mouth-watering tribute to a Life Force." This lovingly photographed 1980 documentary is an odyssey of garlic feasts alternated with uniquely individual interviews of garlic aficionados. Not only does the film promote garlic as our first line of defense against all forms of blandness; it also titillates. Les Blank shows again that he knows how to have a good time and share it on film.
