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Composer: ZAPPA, Frank ((1940-1993)) |
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Absolutely Free Oratorio
The M.O.I. American Pagent Oratorio
Lumpy Gravy Phases 1-2
Uncle Meat Film Score
200 Motels Film Score
Theme from Burnt Weeney Sandwich
Billy the Mountain
Joe's Garage
Sad Jane
Pedro's Dowery
Envelopes
Mo 'n Herb's Vacation
The Perfect Stranger
Dupree's Paradise
Jonestown
The Yellow Shark
(contribution by Scott Cisek <jacobite1688
hotmail.com>)
His/her life:
Spoke with Edgard Varèse, 1955. Consulted and performed with Nicolas Slonimsky, Spring 1981.
(contribution by Scott Cisek <jacobite1688
hotmail.com>)
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ID: TPDVD127
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Documentary
Subcollection: Rock, Pop
Region Code: NTSC. Code 0, Plays in all territories
Presentation: Wide Screen
Screen (Picture) Format: 16:9, Aspect ratio
Sound Format: Dolby Digital Stereo
Duration: 98 mins
DVD Release Date: 04/20/2010
Original Release: 1971
Director: Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa
Cast: The Mothers of Invention, Theodore Bikel, Ringo Starr, Janet Ferguson
Frank Zappa; Tony Palmer; Ringo Starr; Theodore Bikel; Jerry Good; Herb Cohn; Keith Moon; Jimmy Carl Black; Martin Lickert; Calvin Schenkel; Mara Kam; Richard Harrison; Barry Stephens; Murakami-Wolf Films.; Bizarre (Firm); Mothers of Invention.; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.; Tony Palmer Studio (Firm)
A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.
In attempting to summarize the infamous history of FRANK ZAPPA’S 200 MOTELS, three quotes mentioned in Amos Vogel’s book, Film as a Subversive Art, come to mind which also address early malignment of the film.
For the music’s ribald, bawdy lyrics, which caused a live performance of 200 MOTELS to be banned from the Royal Albert Hall in 1971, Goethe wrote to Johann Eckermann, “Only the perverse fantasy can still save us.”
For co-director, Tony Palmer, who publicly disowned the film in an article he submitted to the British Sunday Observer for what he wrote off as a shamble and misguided scrap heap, Nathanael West wrote, “Your order is meaningless, my chaos is significant.”
Of note, Palmer withdrew his repudiation of the film recently by placing his name above the film’s title on last April’s DVD release (We’re Only in It for the Money, Mr. Palmer?).
And lastly, for Zappa who had no formal filmmaking training and for his prescient useage of videotape (200 MOTELS was the first feature film shot on video; director Palmer threatened to erase the master videotapes, which producer, Jerry Goode, later did in order to “balance the film budget”), then transferred to 35mm film using 3-strip Technicolor process, filmmaker Jean Cocteau wrote, “What one should do with the young is to give them a portable camera and forbid them to observe any rules except those they invent for themselves as they go along.” |
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