{"id":16615,"date":"2024-07-11T21:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T01:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2024-07-10T12:00:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T16:00:34","slug":"peppers-garlic-double-feature-les-blank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16615","title":{"rendered":"Peppers & Garlic double-feature (Les Blank)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot Pepper<\/em> (1973)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rock doc about accordionist Clifton Chenier, made two decades into his recording career, and one decade before he’d win a grammy. No awards or recording studios in sight here, it’s more front porches and basement parties. Interviews with locals about their thoughts on racial integration (they’re for it). No fly on the wall, everybody waves at Les while he’s filming street scenes, and his camera is attentive to passers-by and animals and clouds, as usual. I imagine the interview with Chenier’s grandma would’ve killed with a crowd. Made the same year as another Louisiana music doc Dry Wood<\/em>, and right before the Leon Russell movie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nGarlic Is As Good As Ten Mothers<\/em> (1980)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just a doc about garlic and its many uses and the people who are into it, but this is Les Blank so of course it’s a musical. Glad to see the featured Oakland barbecue joint is still family owned and sort-of in business. He digs up Werner Herzog for a sound bite about why his Nosferatu<\/em> didn’t have a garlic subplot (this was pre-Fitzcarraldo<\/em>\/Burden of Dreams<\/em><\/a>). Wim Wenders did some camerawork for this – why?<\/p>\n

Garlic & Flamenco:<\/em>
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