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