Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words

May 3, 2016

1h 33m

★ 7.3

Overview

Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into Frank Zappa’s world while experiencing two distinct facets of his complex character. At once Zappa was both a charismatic composer who reveled in the joy of performing and, in the next moment, a fiercely intelligent and brutally honest interviewee whose convictions only got stronger as his career ascended.

Genres

Music

Documentary

Production Companies

Les Films du Poisson

UFA Fiction

SWR

ARTE

Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words Trailers

Cast

Self (archive footage)

Frank Zappa

Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)

Theodore Bikel

Self (archive footage)

Arlene Francis

Self (archive footage)

Keith Moon

Self (archive footage)

Steve Allen

Self (archive footage)

Jimmy Carl Black

Self (archive footage)

Pierre Boulez

Self (archive footage)

Thomas Braden

Self (archive footage)

Napoleon Murphy Brock

Self (archive footage)

Paul Carman

Self (archive footage)

Katie Couric

Self (archive footage)

Mike Douglas

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