Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words
May 03 2016
•2h 33m
•Music, Documentary
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.
Cast
See allFrank Zappa
Self (archive footage)
Theodore Bikel
Rance Muhammitz (archive footage)
Arlene Francis
Self (archive footage)
Keith Moon
Self (archive footage)
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