Movie
Zappa
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2020-11-27
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Genres
- Music, Documentary
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Trouper Productions, Zipper Bros Films, Altitude Film Entertainment, BFI, Magnolia Pictures
- Country
- United States of America, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Frank Zappa as Self (archive footage)
- Mike Keneally as Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
- Pamela Des Barres as Self - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
- Lonnie Lardner as Self - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
- Patrice Zappa as Self - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
- Rose Zappa as Self - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
- Francis Zappa as Self - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
- Edgard Varèse as Self (archive footage)
- Don Van Vliet as Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
- The Mothers of Invention as Themselves (archive footage)
- Johnny Guitar Watson as Self (archive footage)
- Pamela Zarubica as Self - Zappa's Roommate
Crew
- Alex Winter - Director
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