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Nov 23, 2020 · Now comes Winter’s most ambitious effort yet: Zappa, a full-fledged attempt at capturing one of the most complex and challenging artists of the 20th century, Frank Zappa. There’s no straight line to a true iconoclast like Zappa, no way to capture such an unconventional personality in a conventional way.
- Zappa’s vault makes Prince’s look like a safety deposit box. There have been glimpses into Zappa’s vaults — Classic Albumsspecials dedicated to his Over-Nite Sensation and ApostropheLPs have teased the epic scope of the collection, while the Zappa Family Trust’s steady flow of semiannual archival releases hints at the amount of indispensable audio that still lingers in there.
- Zappa originally dreamed of being a film editor, not a musician. “I became obsessed with editing, and I would edit just because I liked to edit,” Zappa says in voiceover.
- Unsurprisingly, the man who penned “Let’s Make the Water Turn Black” had a weird childhood. The son of a chemist, Zappa states that he learned how to make gunpowder at the age of six, and that his father’s occupation at a Maryland factory where chemical weapons like nerve gas were made left its mark on his psyche and worldview.
- A magazine article about “ugly music” ignited Zappa’s interest in composition. As Zappa reveals in the documentary, his parents were “opposed to any involvement in music that I might be interested in,” but a magazine article about record store magnate Sam Goody and his ability to sell “ugly music” — specifically, The Complete Works of Edgard Varèse, an avant-garde French composer — piqued Zappa’s interest.
Feb 17, 2021 · Director: Alex Winter. Starring: Frank Zappa, Arsenio Hall, David Bowie. Release date: February 16 (Altitude Films) Crafted lovingly over a number of years, in-depth documentary 'Zappa' is...
Released Nov 23, 2020 2h 9m Documentary Music Biography. List. NEW. With unfettered access to the Zappa family trust and all archival footage, ZAPPA explores the private life behind the...
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ZAPPAwill be available to purchase on multiple platforms, including the iTunes store, Google Play, Amazon Video, Playstation, Fandango, and YouTube. Those with cable subscriptions can watch the movie on-demand via Xfinity, Cox, AT&T, DirectTV, Spectrum, and Optimum, among others. For a full list, visit the film’s official website.
For those in the UK and Ireland, ZAPPA is also now available to stream exclusively through Altitude films here.
While many theaters around the country are currently closed amid the pandemic, you can support your favorite movie theater by purchasing on-demand tickets to the film through the cinema itself. Your ticket will grant you access to ZAPPAbeginning at midnight on November 27. You’ll have 72 hours to stream the film, plus, you’ll have access to exclusi...
With the full-collaboration of the Zappa estate, Winter and his team were offered unfettered access to a trove of unreleased material from the artist’s vault, including never-before-seen interviews and movies, unheard recordings from concerts and studio sessions, and incomplete projects. The acclaimed director, who called ZAPPAhis most ambitious pr...
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Released in North America on November 27th from Magnolia Pictures, Zappa is the first all-access documentary about Frank Zappa. The project is in two parts; the first was an archival mission, funded by a record-breaking Kickstarter campaign to preserve the endangered material in Zappa’s vault.
Nov 27, 2020 · Director. Alex Winter. A complex and surprisingly satisfying portrait of an artist who defiantly marched to the beat of a different drummer (or two).
