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''Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers'' is a 1980
documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
about garlic directed by
Les Blank Les Blank (November 27, 1935 – April 7, 2013) was an American documentary filmmaker best known for his portraits of American traditional musicians. Life and career Leslie Harrod Blank Jr. was born November 27, 1935 in Tampa, Florida. He atten ...
. In 2004, the film was selected for preservation in the
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by the
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as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.” The
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preserved ''Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers'' in 1999. It was filmed at the
Gilroy Garlic Festival The Gilroy Garlic Festival was a food festival in the United States, held annually from 1979 to 2019 at Christmas Hill Park in Gilroy, California, on the last full weekend in July. After cancellation in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a drive-t ...
in
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, as well as in other locations in Northern California. Its official premiere was at the 1980 Berlin Film Festival. The director recommends that, when the film is shown, a toaster oven containing several heads of garlic be turned on in the rear of the theater, unbeknownst to the audience, with the intended result that approximately halfway through the showing the entire theater will be filled with the smell of garlic. In Blank's 1982 film ''
Burden of Dreams ''Burden of Dreams'' is a 1982 " making-of" documentary film directed by Les Blank, shot during and about the chaotic production of Werner Herzog's 1982 film ''Fitzcarraldo'', and filmed on location in the jungles of Peru. Plot summary Cast * ...
'', a documentary chronicling the filming of ''
Fitzcarraldo ''Fitzcarraldo'' () is a 1982 West German epic adventure-drama film written, produced and directed by Werner Herzog, and starring Klaus Kinski as would-be rubber baron, Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald, an Irishman known in Peru as Fitzcarraldo, who is ...
'', director
Werner Herzog Werner Herzog (; born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director, regarded as a pioneer of New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists with impossible dreams, people with u ...
and other crew members can be seen wearing "Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers" T-shirts.


Title

The title is a shortened form of the saying "Garlic is as good as ten mothers... for keeping the girls away."


See also

*'' All in This Tea''


References


External links

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''Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers'' page
from Les Blank site

*''Garlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers'' essay by Daniel Eagan in America's Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, A&C Black, 2010 , pages 763-76

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