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Kermode on Film

#136: Mark talks to Alex Winter - one half of Bill and Ted and director of the documentary 'Zappa'

Kermode on Film

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Tv & Film, Entertainment News, Film, Arts, News

4.4913 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Mark talks to Alex Winter - one half of Bill and Ted and director of the documentary 'Zappa' about the iconoclastic musical genius Frank Zappa.


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0:00.0

You don't think that it's time that somebody cared enough to have a dream?

0:04.0

Why are you getting so upset?

0:09.0

This is not about you?

0:10.0

Yes it is.

0:11.0

You are a human affront to all women and I am a woman.

0:15.4

At some point you gotta decide for yourself for you. Can't let nobody make that decision for you.

0:22.0

How do you go about getting an exorcism?

0:24.0

I beg your pardon.

0:26.0

Hi, this is...

0:30.0

Hi, this is Mark Kermo, thanks for downloading this Kermoed on film podcast.

0:36.0

This week I'm delighted to say that my special guest is the great Alex Winter.

0:40.5

When he's not being one half of Bill and Ted, Alex has carved out an impressive directorial career from the early 90s horror comedy freaked to his latest project Zapper, which is a documentary about the music legend built on a wealth of largely unseen personal archive material.

0:55.0

Alex describes the film as not a music doc or a conventional biopic but the dramatic

1:00.0

saga of a great American artist and thinker. I caught up with Alex Winter to talk Zapper, Bill

1:06.4

and Ted and the future of civilization. So Alex, welcome to the podcast. It's a real pleasure

1:11.6

to have you here. I was just saying just before,

1:13.7

we have actually met in the flesh once,

1:16.4

which as you've just brilliantly remembered

1:18.3

was at the Dylan Dogg Film Festival in Milan,

1:21.4

where you were showing Freaks, which was was there was things about the title at one

1:25.9

but it was hideous mutant freak then it was freak because the people owned the old Todd Browning

1:29.9

freaks got cross, is that right?

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