A complex and surprisingly satisfying portrait of an artist who defiantly marched to the beat of a different drummer (or two).
With unfettered access to the Zappa family trust and all archival footage, Zappa explores the private life behind the mammoth musical career that never shied away from the political turbulence of its time.
Alex Winter’s assembly features appearances by Frank’s widow Gail Zappa and several of Frank’s musical collaborators including Mike Keneally, Ian Underwood, Steve Vai, Pamela Des Barres, Bunk Gardner, David Harrington, Scott Thunes, Ruth Underwood, Ray White, and others.
“The movie insists on seeing Frank Zappa not from the outside but, rather, in the way that he saw himself: as a deadly serious and obsessive aesthete-musician in freak’s clothing, a man consumed by breaking out of what he viewed as the shackling boundaries of the pop-music business.” – Owen Gleiberman, Variety
Director: Alex Winter
Cast: Frank Zappa, Lonnie Lardner, Patrice Zappa, Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson
Rating: N/R
Runtime: 2 hours 9 mins
Release Date: 2020
Format: DCP
Audio: 7.1 Surround
Accessibility: Z-Screen subtitles, Audio Description (headphones), Assisted Listening (headphones)
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