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.
Director: Thorsten Schütte
Cast: Frank Zappa, Theodore Bikel, Arlene Francis, Keith Moon, Steve Allen, Jimmy Carl Black, Pierre Boulez, Thomas Braden
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.
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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 onc…
1h 33m
May 3, 2016
Thorsten Schütte
Frank Zappa, Theodore Bikel, Arlene Francis
Music, Documentary