Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
- 2016-05-03
- Music, Documentary
- Frank Zappa, Mike Douglas, George Duke, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Ruth Underwood, Mike Keneally, Arlene Francis, Bunk Gardner, Ralph Humphrey, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Tipper Gore, June Lockhart, Theodore Bikel, Don Preston, Chad Wackerman, Jimmy Carl Black, Peter Wolf, Steve Allen, Chester Thompson, Pierre Boulez, Keith Moon, Keith Moon, Tom Brokaw, Ed Mann, Ray White, Katie Couric, Bruce Fowler, Arthur Barrow, Connie Chung, Scott Thunes, Soupy Sales, Arthur Dyer Tripp III, Tom Fowler, Gene Rayburn, Ringo Starr, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Paul Carman, Jamie Gangel, Robert D. Novak, Aynsley Dunbar, Kurt McGettrick, Peter Rundel, Martin Lickert, Harry Smith, Roy Estrada, Jeff Simmons, Janet Neville-Ferguson, Ike Willis, Lucy Offerall, Robin Denselow, Ensemble Modern, Václav Havel, Walt Fowler, Stanley Siegel, Robert Hager, Albert Au Wing Kuen, Chuck Ash, Judy Gridley, Wally Bruner, Vinnie Colaiuta, Johnny Jacobs, Angel, John Smothers, John Lofton, Paula Fickes Hawkins, Euclid James 'Motorhead' Sherwood, Denny Walley
- Gail Zappa
- 1 h. 33 min.
- 7.3/10
- 26
- Germany, France
- Les Films du Poisson, UFA Fiction, SWR, ARTE
Overview:
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.