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Zappa

NR
Movie
2020
2h 9m
English
Music, Documentary
With the help of more than 10,000 dedicated Zappa fans, this is the long-awaited definitive documentary project of Alex Winter documenting the life and career of enigmatic groundbreaking rock star Frank Zappa. Alex also utilizes in this picture thousands of hours of painstakingly digitized videos, photos, audio, writing, and everything in between from Zappa's private archives. These chronicles have never been brought to a public audience before, until now.
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Frank Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Mike Keneally
Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
Pamela Des Barres
Self - Author, Former Member of the...
Lonnie Lardner
Self - Newscaster for Action News (...
Edgard Varse
Self (archive footage)
Don Van Vliet
Self (archive footage) (as Captain ...
The Mothers of Invention
Themselves (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar Watson
Self (archive footage)
Bunk Gardner
Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969
Ian Underwood
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975
Ruth Underwood
Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976
Gail Zappa
Self - Frank Zappa's Wife
Euclid James Motorhead Sherwood
Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusi...
Jimmy Carl Black
Self - Drums (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix
Self (archive footage)
Moon Unit Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Ronald Reagan
Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
Self (archive footage)
David Bowie
Self (archive footage)
Mick Jagger
Self (archive footage)
Dweezil Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper
Self (archive footage)
Howard Kaylan
Self (archive footage)
Mark Volman
Self (archive footage)
Aynsley Dunbar
Self - Drums (archive footage)
Directed By: Alex Winter

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pivic says...
4 years ago
A lovingly and loving put-together documentary about one of the main experimentalists of the 20th century, Alex Winter's crowdsourced a humongous amount of material for this documentary. Zappa released around 60 albums when he was alive and around 50 have posthumously been released by the Zappa family. He broke boundaries all over, made friends, love, and loads of extremely exciting and upsetting music. Alice Cooper says a lot of good stuff in the documentary, as does Steve Vai and others. It's lovely to hear some of his modernistic and orchestral stuff shine, as with the piano-and-drums version of 'Black Page' as performed by two of his former musicians. There's a lot of archival footage here. A heaven's gate to his music, for sure.
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