TV Guide: Frank Zappa

Video: Anarchy TV

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Anarchy TV is an outrageous comedy about a group of friends with an uncensored Public Access cable show who are driven off the air by a maniacal televangelist. Intent on gaining the public's attention and reclaiming their station, the Anarchy crew rally, protest and ultimately resort to the ultimate publicity stunt. With great performances from its hip cast and driving music in an outstanding soundtrack, Anarchy TV provides an explosive conclusion to this wild and provocative indie feature. The film stars Alan Thicke, the four children of anarchist rocker, Frank Zappa: Dweezil, Moon, Ahmet & Diva, Jonathan Penner, Jessica Hecht, Albert Hall, Matt Winston, and comedienne Tamayo Otsuki, with great cameos from George Wendt, Mink Stole, Apollonia and Timothy Leary.

Video: Anarchy TV

Amazon Video on Demand — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: DOG/MEAT

Video Detective — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Dog/Meat movie trailer - starring Frank Zappa.

Video: G-SPOT TORNADO

Video Detective — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0500

G-Spot Tornado movie trailer - starring Frank Zappa.

Video: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960s

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

"Where the hell did that come from?" was likely the response from many listeners on hearing The Mothers of Invention's debut album Freak Out upon its release in June 1966 - a time when music was changing, but to a degree that hadn't yet hinted anything this bizarre was on the horizon. But once the freaks and the beautiful people had cottoned on to what Uncle Frank and his Merry Men were up to (despite the latter community often being the target for some of Zappa's most hilarious lampooning), the scene was set for a fan base of the most dedicated variety and a respect from critics, musicians, performers and the intelligentsia almost unparalleled in the history of pop culture. This film reviews the true story of The Mothers of Invention and the music they made during the first incarnation of the band. With group members Jimmy Carl Black, Bunk Gardner, and Art Tripp taking up the tale and revealing - often for the first time - what the real Frank Zappa was all about, and with contribution

Video: Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention: In the 1960s

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Happy Together

Amazon Video on Demand — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:00:00 -0500

Winner of the Best Director prize at the 1997 Cannes Film Festival, Wong Kar-Wai?s Happy Together is a stunning display of filmmaking style and a touching story of love on the brink of dissolution. With gorgeous, saturated images set to an eclectic soundtrack of classic tangos, torch songs, and Frank Zappa, Wong Kar-Wai chronicles the stormy affair of a gay couple (Hong Kong superstars Tony Leung and the late Leslie Cheung) living as expatriates in Argentina.

Video: Frank Zappa / Frank Zappa - October 21,1978

Amazon Video on Demand — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Frank Zappa hosts. Musical performances include "The Meek Shall Inherit Nothing" and "Rollo." Sketches include Coneheads and Mr. Bill Moves In.

Video: World's Greatest Sinner, The -- (Movie Clip) Super Human Beings

TCM — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Clarence (now "God") Hilliard (Director & Star Timothy Carey) performs for adoring throngs in The World's Greatest Sinner, 1962, with original music by Frank Zappa.

Video: 200 Motels - (Original Trailer)

TCM — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Frank Zappa created and stars in this demented tale of what happens to his band when touring leads them to 200 Motels (1971).

Video: September 28, 1984

Hulu — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Crocket and Tubbs make pastel hip on Miami Vice premiere Carl Reiner s All Of Me is at the movies Which member of the Zappa family celebrates a birthday?

Video: G-SPOT TORNADO

Singing Fool — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Album: YELLOW SHARK, THE; Label: Rhino Records

Video: DOG/MEAT

Singing Fool — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Album: YELLOW SHARK, THE; Label: Rhino Records

Video: MONDO HOLLYWOOD

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

120 minute - 2005 digitally-enhanced "Director's Cut." The underground cult classic documentary of the psychedelic 1960s. Closeups of stars, including Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Ronald Reagan, Frank Zappa, Sean Connery, Brigit Bardot, Alfred Hitchcock, Bobby Beausoleil of the "Manson Family," imprisoned for life for murder, and Jay Sebring - victim of the Mansons. Personal insights by surfers, skydivers, LSD gurus, hippies, peaceniks, protest-singers, rightwing politicians, eccentric multi-millionaires and transvestites. Denounced as "bizarre prophecy" by the critics. Invited to open the 1968 Avignon & Venice Film Festivals, but banned by the French Ministry of Information as a "danger to mental health" and an "apology for certain perversities, including drugs and homosexuality." Characterised in CIA files as "pro-Communist." Refused exhibition in Communist nations as "glamourising Capitalism - too many cars and swimming pools." Described by UNESCO social scientist S. Friedman a

Video: MONDO HOLLYWOOD

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Video: Saturday Night Live (SNL) December 11, 1976 - Candice Bergen / Frank Zappa

Amazon Video on Demand — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0500

Candice Bergen hosts. During a sketch called "Extremely Stupid" Candice flubs her lines and cracks up live to Gilda Radner's improv. Musical Guest is Frank Zappa ("I'm the Slime, "Lagoon", and "Peaches & Regalia").

Video: Rock School DVD clip

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500

Paul Green is a man who declares himself born to teach kids, but he has nothing to do with the traditional educational system. Musician Green is the proprietor of the Paul Green School of Rock Music, an after-school facility in Philadelphia where kids from 9 to 17 learn how to play instruments and work together in a band. While Green outwardly seems like a loose cannon who yells at his students and acts only marginally more mature than a high schooler, the kids who attend his school love him and he gets results; one of the Rock School's ensembles were invited to perform at a Frank Zappa tribute event in Germany (where they brought down the house), and several say that his approach has changed their lives for the better. Rock School is a documentary which offers an inside look at Paul Green, his school, and the kids who learn from him. - Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Video: Rock School - Trailer

AOL Moviefone — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:00:00 -0500