Zappa

Nov 27, 2020

2h 9m

★ 7.3

Save the Vault. Tell the Story.

Overview

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.

Genres

Music

Documentary

Production Companies

Trouper Productions

Zipper Bros Films

Altitude Film Entertainment

BFI

Magnolia Pictures

Zappa Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

Frank Zappa

Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988

Mike Keneally

Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs

Pamela Des Barres

Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)

Lonnie Lardner

Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)

Patrice Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)

Rose Zappa

Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)

Francis Zappa

Self (archive footage)

Edgard Varèse

Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)

Don Van Vliet

Themselves (archive footage)

The Mothers of Invention

Self (archive footage)

Johnny Guitar Watson

Self - Zappa's Roommate

Pamela Zarubica

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