Radio Unnameable
Kino Lorber | Release Date: September 21, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 7 Critic Reviews
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5
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2
Negative:
0
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100
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierSep 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
75
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasOct 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
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoSep 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
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 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
63
Slant MagazineBill WeberSep 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
60
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonSep 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
60
Time OutMatt SingerSep 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
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