Zappa
Zappa
Release: 2020-11-27
·Runtime: 129m
·★ 7.3
Music
Documentary
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.
Production Countries
United States of America
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Trouper Productions
Zipper Bros Films
Altitude Film Entertainment
BFI
Magnolia Pictures
Trailers & Videos
Cast
Moon Unit Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Arsenio Hall
as Self (archive footage)
Yoko Ono
as Self (archive footage)
Arthur Barrow
as Self (archive footage)
Al Gore
as Self (archive footage)
Tipper Gore
as Self (archive footage)
Nancy Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
David Letterman
as Self (archive footage)
Charles Manson
as Self (archive footage)
Dweezil Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Tommy Mars
as Self (archive footage)
Adrian Belew
as Self (archive footage)
Kent Nagano
as Self (archive footage)
Don Van Vliet
as Self (archive footage) (as Captain Beefheart)
Ike Willis
as Self - Played with Zappa 1978-1979 (archive footage)
Bruce Bickford
as Self - Animator
Tom Fowler
as Self (archive footage)
Ralph Humphrey
as Self (archive footage)
Bill Wyman
as Self (archive footage)
John Lennon
as Self (archive footage)
Chester Thompson
as Self (archive footage)
Jimi Hendrix
as Self (archive footage)
Edgard Varèse
as Self (archive footage)
Adam Curry
as Self
Brian Jones
as Self (archive footage)
George Duke
as Self - Keyboards / Trombone (archive footage)
Ted Koppel
as Self (archive footage)
Alice Cooper
as Self (archive footage)
Vinnie Colaiuta
as Self (archive footage)
Frank Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Napoleon Murphy Brock
as Self (archive footage) (as Napoleon Brock)
Jean-Luc Ponty
as Self (archive footage)
Diva Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
Ahmet Zappa
as Self (archive footage)
David Raksin
as Self (archive footage)
Ringo Starr
as Self (archive footage)
Pierre Boulez
as Self (archive footage)
John Belushi
as Self (archive footage)
Václav Havel
as Self - President of Czechoslovakia (archive footage)
Steve Vai
as Self - Played with Zappa 1980-1982
Ronald Reagan
as Self (archive footage)
Mike Keneally
as Self - Played with Zappa 1987-1988
David Bowie
as Self (archive footage)
Mick Jagger
as Self (archive footage)
