Just in Time— We Eat Some Garlic, and discover “Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers.”
Friday, October 31st, 2008© A.J. Malouin 2008, Halloween
(Rating: 3 by The Film Snob— who has an *incredible* weakness for garlic!)
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(1980/USA. Directed by Les Blank.)
We’re home just before sunrise on Friday, 31 October, 2008 Gregorian, after a Feast of garlic.
It wuzn’t raw, and it wasn’t to avoid the you-know-whats. Some several hours ago now, we were served roasted garlic and bread in the aisles of the Detroit Film Theatre (DFT.)
That feasting was thanks to the DFT, the Detroit Docs International Film Festival, and, especially, to documentary filmmaker Les Blank, with whom we spent the evening of Thursday, 30 October. That’s the night known as Devil’s Night by the unfortunates who were not lucky enough to see the screening of the three films we saw.
Centerpiece of our in-theatre film feasting was the Les Blank documentary “Garlic is as Good as Ten Mothers,” a 1980 film.
We were also treated to viewings of “Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe,” and to the easily most-astounding selection of all three screenings, Les Blank’s “Burden of Dreams.” (more…)