Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)
Thorsten Schütte’s film is a sharply edited and energetic celebration of Zappa through his public persona, allowing us to witness his shifting relationship with audiences. Utilizing potent TV interviews and many forgotten performances from his 30-year career, we are immersed into the musician’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.
Genre: Documentary, Music
Actor: Arlene Francis Frank Zappa Jimmy Carl Black Keith Moon Napoleon Murphy Brock Paul Carman Pierre Boulez Steve Allen Theodore Bikel Thomas Braden
Director: Thorsten Schütte
Country: France