Zappa

Zappa (2020)

Save the Vault. Tell the Story.

  • Genre: Music, Documentary
  • Release Date: 2020-11-27
  • User Rating: 7.3/10 from 52 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 9min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Trouper Productions
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Director: Alex Winter
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Summary

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 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

  • Carlo Zappavigna

    as Self - Frank Zappa's Brother (archive footage)

  • Bunk Gardner

    as Self - Played with Zappa 1966-1969

  • Ian Underwood

    as Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1975

  • Ruth Underwood

    as Self - Played with Zappa 1967-1976

  • Gail Zappa

    as Self - Frank Zappa's Wife

  • Tom Wilson

    as Self - Music Producer (archive footage)

  • Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood

    as Self - Baritone Saxophone / Percusion (archive footage)

  • Roy Estrada

    as Self - Bass (archive footage)

  • Ray Collins

    as Self - Vocal (archive footage)

  • Don Preston

    as Self - Keyboards (archive footage)

  • Jimmy Carl Black

    as Self - Drums (archive footage)

  • Arthur Dyer Tripp III

    as Self - Percusion (archive footage) (as Art Tripp)

  • Cal Schenkel

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jimi Hendrix

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Moon Unit Zappa

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ronald Reagan

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Nancy Reagan

    as Self (archive footage)

  • David Bowie

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Mick Jagger

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Joni Mitchell

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Dweezil Zappa

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Alice Cooper

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Howard Kaylan

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Mark Volman

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Aynsley Dunbar

    as Self - Drums (archive footage)

  • Jeff Simmons

    as Self - Bass (archive footage)

  • George Duke

    as Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage)

  • Jean-Luc Ponty

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Yoko Ono

    as Self (archive footage)

  • John Lennon

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Jerry D. Good

    as Self - Producer, 200 Motels (archive footage) (as Jerry Good)

  • Ringo Starr

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Steve Vai

    as Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982

  • Ike Willis

    as Self - Played with Zappa 1978-1979 (archive footage)

  • Bruce Bickford

    as Self - Animator

  • Tom Fowler

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Napoleon Murphy Brock

    as Self (archive footage) (as Napoleon Brock)

  • Ralph Humphrey

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Chester Thompson

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Bruce Fowler

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Patrick O'Hearn

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Peter Wolf

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Terry Bozzio

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Tommy Mars

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Adrian Belew

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Scott Thunes

    as Self - Played with Zappa 1981-1988

  • Joe Travers

    as Self

  • John Belushi

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ray White

    as Self - Played with Zappa 1976-1984

  • Arthur Barrow

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Vinnie Colaiuta

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Diva Zappa

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Sandi Freeman

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Mike Douglas

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Norman Seeff

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Kronos String Quartet

    as Themselves

  • David Harrington

    as Self

  • Robin Denselow

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Kent Nagano

    as Self (archive footage)

  • David Letterman

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ahmet Zappa

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Pierre Boulez

    as Self (archive footage)

  • David Raksin

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ted Koppel

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Susan Baker

    as Self - PMRC Member (archive footage)

  • Arsenio Hall

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Gary Iskowitz

    as Self (voice)

  • David Dondorf

    as Self - Music Engineer (voice)

  • Kathleen Sullivan

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Václav Havel

    as Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)

  • Jamie Gangel

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Ensemble Modern

    as Themselves (archive footage)

  • Arthur Brown

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Adam Curry

    as Self

  • Hank Dutt

    as Self

  • Buzz Gardner

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Al Gore

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Tipper Gore

    as Self (archive footage)

  • David Harrington

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Brian Jones

    as Self (archive footage)

  • John Lofton

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Miss Mercy

    as Self (archive footage)

  • John Sherba

    as Self

  • Bill Wyman

    as Self (archive footage)

  • Sunny Yang

    as Self

  • Charles Manson

    as Self (archive footage)
Directing Alex Winter Director
Camera Anghel Decca Director of Photography
Production Robert Halmi Jr. Executive Producer
Sound Alex Nomick Sound Effects Editor
Sound Frank Zappa Music
Editing Greg Lanesey Digital Intermediate Producer
Production Jade Allen Producer
Production Jim Reeve Executive Producer
Production John Frizzell Producer
Production Devorah DeVries Producer
Production Ahmet Zappa Producer
Production Glen Zipper Producer
Production Alex Winter Producer

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