Radio Unnameable

Name: Radio Unnameable
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 21, 2012
Duration: 87 min
Rating: 72

2012

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Kino Lorber | Release Date: September 21, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: Influential radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the airwaves by developing a patchwork of music, politics, comedy and reports from the street, effectively creating free-form radio. For nearly 50 years, Fass has been heard at midnight on listener-sponsored WBAI-FM, broadcast out of New York. Long before today's innovations in socialInfluential radio personality Bob Fass revolutionized the airwaves by developing a patchwork of music, politics, comedy and reports from the street, effectively creating free-form radio. For nearly 50 years, Fass has been heard at midnight on listener-sponsored WBAI-FM, broadcast out of New York. Long before today's innovations in social media, Fass utilized the airwaves for mobilization, encouraging luminaries and ordinary listeners to talk openly, taking the program
in surprising directions. Radio Unnameable is a visual and aural collage that pulls from Bob Fass's immense archive of audio, film, photographs, and video that has been sitting dormant until now. (Kino Lorber)… Expand

Director: Jessica Wolfson and Paul Lovelace

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 87 min

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Joe Neumaier

Sep 20, 2012

Rarely has any film, fictional or documentary, captured the hypnotic effect of voices on the airwaves like this chronicle of Bob Fass. Read full review

V.A. Musetto

Sep 21, 2012

Long before Occupy Wall Street, there was Bob Fass, the legendary overnight host on WBAI whose 50-year career is lovingly saluted in the documentary Radio Unnameable. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Oct 17, 2012

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. It also, in the Fass way, does a little meandering. Read full review

A.O. Scott

Sep 19, 2012

The charm of Radio Unnameable is, finally, elegiac. 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. Read full review

Bill Weber

Sep 17, 2012

While crediting free-form radio pioneer Bob Fass with changing the culture of broadcasting, this documentary remains clear-eyed about the decline of community radio and the New Left. Read full review

Matt Singer

Sep 18, 2012

It's as haunting and heroic as anything you'll see on the big screen this year, even if the film itself has a tendency to traffic in an abundance of dead air. Read full review

Melissa Anderson

Sep 18, 2012

Now 79, the man with the snow-white ponytail in the radio booth hasn't flagged; as one of Fass's contemporaries says, "He can let someone go on and on and on." Read full review

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