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Radio Unnameable
Directed by
Jessica Wolfson
,
Paul Lovelace
Not Rated
2012
87m
Documentary
7.2
100%
65%
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Legendary radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized late-night F.M. radio by serving as a cultural hub for music, politics and audience participation for nearly half a century.
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Cast of Radio Unnameable
David Amram
Himself
Judy Collins
Herself
Robert Downey Sr.
Himself
Arlo Guthrie
Himself
Judith Malina
Herself
Jessica Wolfson
Director / Producer
Paul Lovelace
Director / Producer
Radio Unnameable Ratings & Reviews
Seattle Times
John Hartl
You're overwhelmed by the feeling that you've seen this tale of corporate greed and arrogant mismanagement before. Still, the filmmakers tell it with gusto.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Radio Unnameable is at its best when it tries to find some visual analog to Fass' vibe, courtesy of cinematographer John Pirozzi, who takes beautiful snapshots of a sleepless city.
PopMatters
Sarah Boslaugh
...a great window into the days before cell phones and Twitter, when broadcast radio played a key role not only in delivering information to people, but also in giving them a voice and bringing them together.
Film-Forward.com
Nora Lee Mandel
Beautifully sets up the feel and the times. . .with archival photographs and footage [but] distracts from. . .the intimate aural relationship between Fass and his audience.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Directors Paul Lovelace and Jessica Wolfson weave together archival visual and aural materials along with new interviews with Fass, his wife, Lynnie, and other WBAI alumni.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
A treasure trove of both visual and aural footage makes this terrific doc a keeper. Its affectionate appreciation of one man's long, strange trip through history make it a helluva lot of fun.
WBAI Radio
Prairie Miller
A richly conceived archival tribute to the very miracle of Radio Unnameable's survival despite it all. And a troubling irony as peripherally depicted in this documentary, with Fass often in furious battle to prevail on air. A Tale Of Two Radio Stations
New York Times
A.O. Scott
It can make you wish - or, if you're lucky, remember - that you were a sleepless New Yorker in 1967, kept from loneliness by a gentle, soulful voice on the radio.
Village Voice
Melissa Anderson
A sporadically hard-selling homage to a cult hero from an overchronicled era ...
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Louis Proyect
Gimlet-eyed view of a legendary pioneer of "free form" radio as well as a probing examination of the Balkanization of the left.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
While crediting free-form radio pioneer Bob Fass with changing the culture of broadcasting, this doc remains clear-eyed about the decline of community radio and the New Left.
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