Radio Unnameable

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Movie Info

Bob Fass became a New York City disc jockey who used his radio show to pioneer free expression on the airwaves.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Paul Lovelace, Jessica Wolfson
Producer:

Paul Lovelace, Jessica Wolfson
Release Date (Theaters):

Sep 19, 2012 limited
Release Date (Streaming):

Mar 25, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA):

$24.0K
Runtime:

1h 31m
Production Co:

Lost Footage Films, Twelve O'Clock Films

Cast & Crew

David Amram

Judy Collins

Robert Downey Sr.

Marshall Efron

Arlo Guthrie

Steven Ben Israel

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Critics Consensus: Trouble with the Curve Is Solid But Predictable

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Critic Reviews for Radio Unnameable

All Critics (13) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (13)

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.

November 29, 2012 | Rating: 3/4

John Hartl
Seattle Times
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.

October 18, 2012 | Rating: B | Full Review…

Scott Tobias
AV Club
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.

September 21, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…

V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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.

September 20, 2012 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review…

Joe Neumaier
New York Daily News
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.

September 18, 2012 | Rating: 3.5/5

A.O. Scott
New York Times
A sporadically hard-selling homage to a cult hero from an overchronicled era ...

September 18, 2012 | Full Review…

Melissa Anderson
Village Voice
Paul Lovelace and Jessica Wolfson's love letter to Bob and his legendary program, Radio Unnameable, rewrites the record and places the disc jockey in the pantheon beside his louder contemporaries.

November 27, 2013 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…

Simon Miraudo
Quickflix
...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.

October 4, 2012 | Rating: 7/10 | Full Review…

Sarah Boslaugh
PopMatters
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.

September 21, 2012 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…

Nora Lee Mandel
Film-Forward.com
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

September 20, 2012 | Full Review…

Prairie Miller
WBAI Radio
Gimlet-eyed view of a legendary pioneer of "free form" radio as well as a probing examination of the Balkanization of the left.

September 17, 2012 | Full Review…

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