Why it may be worth watching
- Zappa combines Music and Documentary elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Frank Zappa, Mike Keneally, Pamela Des Barres.
- Viewers currently rate it 7.2/10 from 71 votes.
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Zappa
Save the Vault. Tell the Story.
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 ZappaSelf (archive footage)
Mike KeneallySelf - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
Pamela Des BarresSelf - Author, Former Member of the GTOs
Lonnie LardnerSelf - Newscaster for Action News (archive footage)
Patrice ZappaSelf - Frank Zappa's Sister (archive footage)
Rose ZappaSelf - Frank Zappa's Mother (archive footage)
Francis ZappaSelf - Frank Zappa's Father (archive footage)
Edgard VarèseSelf (archive footage)
Don Van VlietSelf (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
The Mothers of InventionThemselves (archive footage)
Johnny Guitar WatsonSelf (archive footage)
Pamela ZarubicaSelf - Zappa's Roommate
Carlo ZappavignaSelf - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage)
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Best suited to viewers looking for Music, Documentary.
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composerbiographyavant-gardeprogressive rockrock singerbandleaderlife and careerthe mother of invention
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