Alex Winter’s “Zappa” is an odd, occasionally jarring documentary, but it wouldn’t make sense for it to be anything else. The film about the iconoclastic musician Frank Zappa sometimes feels like an ...

Alex Winter's latest doc, 'Zappa,' digs into private vaults for a portrait of the singular musician. By John DeFore Even his most dedicated fans tend to accept that not all their friends will agree ...

The highly anticipated new documentary ZAPPA has officially been released, showcasing a slew of rare and unseen footage from the late Frank Zappa’s “Vault.” Alongside the film, the ZAPPA team has also ...

Frank Zappa was always waiting to get zapped. With his eccentric, experimental music, the rock iconoclast believed that, for all of his influential innovation, he was seen as a “threat” in the ...

Ringo Starr — dressed as Frank Zappa, mustache and all, yet playing someone named “Larry the Dwarf” – descends on wires from the ceiling of a TV studio while holding a prop genie lamp. Our Master of ...

Anti-maskers trying to overcome the Black Plague of the 21st Century through force of will? Streaming media services paying musicians pennies on the dollar? Celebrities who are famous for being famous ...

Frank Zappa was the sardonic anti-hero of LA’s music scene in the 1960s. He was a relentless workaholic when rock stars were laid back. He didn’t drink alcohol or use drugs, unlike most of his ...

Alex Winter’s “Zappa,” a documentary biopic of the experimental rock pioneer, composer, and activist Frank Zappa is a sprawling at times shaggy work, testing the outer limits of mood and tone, ...

“Documentaries are never going to be exactly what you had in your mind, especially when you have as much archival media as we had here,” explained filmmaker Alex Winter as we discussed his Frank Zappa ...

It’s a happy “Franksgiving” for Zappa fans as director Alex Winter’s years-in-the-making authorized documentary Zappa has finally arrived. Touted as having unprecedented access to Zappa’s immense ...

In “Zappa,” actor and filmmaker Alex Winter provides an economical, uncritical documentary about the eponymous musician, who died at 52 in 1993. Frank Zappa became famous as an iconoclast, his ...

Composer, guitar virtuoso, activist, iconoclast – and now the latest rock artist whose entire catalog belongs to a corporation. Frank Zappa's estate – including his recordings, songs, film archive and ...