Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
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Actor: Adrian Belew, Bruce Bickford, Dale Bozzio, Terry Bozzio, Warren CuccurulloDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD, Enhanced, Full Screen, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 166 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-12-09
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Eagle Rock Ent
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Movie Review: Baby Snakes is a classic
Summary: 5 Stars
After renting "Baby Snakes", I bought my own personal copy. I think this is a classic and I fell in love with Frank Zappa, all over again. He was charming, attractive, and oh so talented! This movie gives a great view into the music and magic that is Zappa.
I recommend it to anyone who knows who Frank is. He shaped a generation in ways that may not be fully understood yet or ever.
Summary of Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
Touted as "a movie about people who do stuff that is not normal," Frank Zappa's Baby Snakes chronicles a late-'70s Halloween stand in New York City (a zany enough proceeding in its own right) with digressions throughout the first half for backstage antics, band interviews, and some outlandish clay animation from Bruce Bickford, with whose work Zappa was obviously smitten. Onstage, Zappa is a live wire, the audience is appropriately rambunctious, and the band--an especially potent incarnation of the famous Mothers of Invention--is tight as could be. The film amounts to a three-hour musical carnival whose participants lack any trace of artistic or personal inhibition. Zappa, who died in 1993, always worked with consummate musicians, and Baby Snakes showcases the cream of the crop: Terry Bozzio (one of the greatest drummers ever to command a kit), bassist Patrick O'Hearn, keyboard wizard Tommy Mars, and even pop chameleon Adrian Belew.The DVD packaging, with its deluxe miniature dossier on Zappa and the film, is fabulous, and the sound and picture seem about as good as they could be, under the influence--that is, the circumstances. Undeniable are Zappa's intelligence and charisma, which flicker and blaze every second he's on screen. The progressive-leaning rock and jazz music is frequently interrupted for meandering spoken interludes and is certainly not for all tastes. But Frank Zappa was a force to behold, and Baby Snakes offers a unique cultural education for anyone bold enough to give it a spin. "Without deviation," Zappa wrote, "progress is not possible." Baby Snakes is one of Frank's most fervent contributions to progress. --Michael Mikesell
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