9:00 p.m.	Frank Zappa’s 200 Motels Frank Zappa (U.S., 1971)

“Touring can make you crazy,” says Frank Zappa, and so can 200 Motels. Zappa’s self-proclaimed “surrealistic documentary” finds the Mothers of Invention stranded in Centerville, a cardboard cut-out of mediocre America, comprising a boutique, a bar called Redneck Eats, a concert hall, and a motel just like the 199 others where they’ve stayed. “A real nice place to raise your kids up,” perhaps, but peel back the paint and it’s a bawdy bedlam of rednecks, groupies, and rock stars. When Zappa isn’t played by a dummy, we get Ringo Starr as Larry the Dwarf, a Zappa lookalike. The Who’s drummer, Keith Moon, stars as a cross-dressing nun who’s got some bad habits. And then there’s acid-tongued Flo and Eddie, our corked-up choirboys. Twenty-five wildly incendiary songs are performed, including “This Town Is a Sealed Tuna Sandwich,” “Half a Dozen Provocative Squats,” “Penis Dimension,” and “Lonesome Cowboy Burt.” 200 Motels is no Best Western—it’ll keep you up at night.

—Steve Seid

• Written by Zappa, Tony Palmer. Photographed by Dave Swan, Barrie Dodd, Mike Fitch, John Howard. With the Mothers of Invention, Keith Moon, Ringo Starr, Theodore Bikel. (98 mins, Color, 35mm, From MGM)