Movies: American musician
- 2020
Zappa (2020)
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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 thous...
- 2016
Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)
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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 revele...
- 2016
Zapped: Frank Zappa par Frank Zappa (2016)
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Documentary on Frank Zappa....
- 2014
Frank Zappa – Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily (2014)
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In the feature documentary, Summer 82 – When Zappa Came to Sicily, filmmaker and Zappa fan Salvo Cuccia tells the behind-the-scenes story of Frank Zappa's star-crossed concert in Palermo, Sicily, the wrap-up to a European tour that ended in public di...
- 1971
200 Motels (1971)
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"Touring makes you crazy," Frank Zappa says, explaining that the idea for this film came to him while the Mothers of Invention were touring. The story, interspersed with performances by the Mothers and the Royal Symphony Orchestra, is a tale of life ...
- 2004
Beautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of Smile (2004)
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This film tells (using modern day interviews and archival footage and sound tapes) the story of how in 1967, while his band The Beach Boys triumphantly toured abroad, Brian Wilson was trying to push the boundaries of conventional pop music with a new...
- 2008
Frank Zappa: The Torture Never Stops (2008)
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Halloween, New York City, 1981 Live at The Palladium with Ray White, Steve Vai, Bobby Martin, Tommy Mars, Ed Mann, Scott Thunes, Chad Wackerman...
- 2015
Frank Zappa & The Mothers: Roxy: The Movie (2015)
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A Frank Zappa show goes way beyond a mere concert – it is an experience…a flight of improvisation, musicianship, and cerebral cynicism. An unparalleled Composer and Guitarist, Zappa redefined rock n roll paradigms by introducing into the mix his favo...
- 2007
Classic Albums: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe (') Over-Nite Sensation (2007)
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This episode focuses on Zappa's early 70s albums, Overnight Sensation (1973) and Apostrophy (') (1974). Together they encapsulate Zappa's extraordinary musical diversity and were also the 2 most commercially successful albums that he released in his ...
- 2001
Classic Albums: Lou Reed - Transformer (2001)
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In 1972, Lou Reed's second solo album Transformer elevated him from a minor cult figure to one of the best known and most talked about artists in rock & roll, with its incisive portrait of the demimonde and the distinctive hit single "Walk on the Wil...
- 1985
Frank Zappa: Does Humor Belong in Music? (1985)
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Frank Zappa and his band in a digitally recorded live performance at "The Pier" in New York, NY on August 26, 1984....
- 2006
DJ Screw: The Untold Story (2006)
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DJ Screw: Untold Story tells the story of Robert Davis before the phenomenon and before the fame from the people who were there. This DVD also contains never-before seen footage of the one man who gave Houston its sound indentity, at work and at play...
- 2013
Frank Zappa: A Token Of His Extreme (2013)
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Frank Zappa: A Token of his Extreme is the 1974 television special recorded at Kcet in Hollywood that was produced by Zappa and aired only in France and Switzerland. The program, as thoroughly tweezed and produced by Zappa for his own Honker Home Vi...
- 1971
Frank Zappa (1971)
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The Documentary centers around Zappa at home, and on Tour. The amazing thing is that Zappa allowed a guy with a camera to film the band at the Fillmore West w/ Flo and Eddie. There are times when the camera man seems to be on the stage. The performan...
- 1988
The True Story of Frank Zappa's 200 Motels (1988)
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A one-hour documentary on the making of Frank Zappa's bizarre 1971 comic musical. Vintage private footage from Frank's personal archives plus behind-the-scenes of the actual shooting and recording. With Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel, Keith Moon and suc...
- 1991
Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko (1991)
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For the past ten years Zappa in composing has turned away from Rock and Roll music - for which he first became famous - and has been working on new, contemporary, orchestral electronic music; in solitude and beyond any commercial conventions or commi...
- 2012
Moby From the Basement (2012)
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Collaborating with a cellist and a superb trio of vocalists (featuring Inyang Bassey), an unassuming Moby transforms several hit songs in an illuminating performance filmed for Nigel Godrich’s “From the Basement” series....
- 1988
Carly Simon Live From Martha's Vineyard (1988)
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A rare intimate performance by Carly Simon Carly Simon's Live From Martha's Vineyard: The Classic Concert captures the artistic genius of a true musical icon performing her classic hits. Filmed on the waterfront at Martha's Vineyard, MA, Carly Simon...
- 2000
Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die (2000)
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Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die is a 2000 documentary about Frank Zappa....
- 2002
Frank Zappa: Phase II - The Big Note (2002)
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Frank Zappa: Phase Two is a 2002 documentary about Frank Zappa. It features a lot of footage from Scheffer's previous film, but new material from Malcolm McNab's private achive....