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Al Franken (Actor), Janeane Garofalo (Actor), Patrick Farrelly (Director), Rated:
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Produced for HBO, Left of the Dial tracks the growing pains behind the nation's first liberal radio network. Longtime Michael Moore associates Patrick Farrelly and Kate O'Callaghan (The Awful Truth) take a "fair and balanced" fly-on-the-wall look at the major players behind and in front of the mic at Air America, established to "challenge the right wing dominance of talk radio." (Moore, surprisingly, turns out to be one of the venture’s harshest critics.) The filmmakers began shooting 12 days prior to the March 2004 launch and kept going for the next few months. They start by aiming their cameras at Evan Cohen, the chairman, and David Goodfriend, the general counsel. Like the duo depicted in Startup.com, theirs isn’t a partnership built to last. Other subjects include hosts Randi Rhodes, Marc Maron, Chuck D, Janeane Garofalo, and Al Franken. Most hadn't worked in radio before and things quickly begin to unravel: Rhodes feels left out of the press coverage, while Maron feels the staff is incompetent. Then Ralph Nader hangs up on Rhodes and there's a scandal regarding airtime payments. What do their competitors think? Sean Hannity (FOX News) opines, "These people are not bright...they really are dull." Fortunately, enough listeners felt otherwise that Air America eventually found their footing and grew out of that awkward stage. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ Unknown
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 3.2 ounces
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Kate O'Callaghan, Patrick Farrelly
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Closed-captioned, Color, Multiple Formats, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 38 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ September 2, 2008
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, Marc Maron, Randi Rhodes
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ HBO Video
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000BBOU9K
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Best Sellers Rank: #156,284 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
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    4.3 out of 5 stars 19 ratings

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  • Patrick
    5.0 out of 5 stars Three Cheers for Air America!
    Reviewed in the United States on November 28, 2005
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    The story of Air America is really an amazing one. Before it ever launched, right wingers were saying it would never make it. A few days after it was on the air you had Bill O'Reilly saying "Is that still on?" And Ann Coulter saying "Nobody listens to Air America." The company had very poor management in charge and ended up losing Los Angeles and Chicago. It looked like Air America was going to flop. But because of the on air talent, most notably Randi Rhodes, it survived. People may tune in initially to hear Al Franken, but it's Randi that keeps people coming back day after day. The company is nearly two years old and it's already got over 70 stations. It's ratings are still far behind Rush Limbaugh's but he's been on for over 20 years and broadcasts from over 600 stations. So when he talks about Air America's ratings just remember that the company is still a baby but this baby is already on it's feet walking.

    I had the pleasure to attend a live broadcast of Al Franken's show in Los Angeles (AM 1150) and the venue was jam packed full of people. So Air America has an audience and it's growing every day.
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  • C. L. Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great documentary about a great radio network
    Reviewed in the United States on March 19, 2006
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    I have been listening to Air America almost from its inception when I discovered that I could stream it on my computer. This documentary does a great job of showing us how Air America got started and it's great to see the radio personalities learning this new (for some of them) craft. It was Al Franken and his book "Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right" that brought me to Air American, but it has been Marc Maron and Sam Sedar who make me stay (and keep me sane!). With this DVD, there is the added plus of listening to the commentary of Randi Rhodes and Marc Maron as well as the filmakers themselves, and they all offer some nice tidbits from behind the scenes. Hopefully Air American will become stronger and the local radio stations (KQKE in my area) can broadcast nothing but progressive/liberal talk radio that will ultimately make our country and the world a better place.
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  • lighten_up_already
    3.0 out of 5 stars Or, how not to start a radio network
    Reviewed in the United States on October 13, 2007
    This documentary is basically a lot of raw footage of the behind-the-scenes going on at Air America during the launch phase and through the first financial crisis ending with the election of 2004. The editing is skillful enough so that I could follow the story with only a few little slides along the way to serve as chapters markers along the way.

    It certainly isn't necessary to be a fan of Air America radio to enjoy this documentary, but it might help. Liberals at least get the pleasure of watching their heroes in action during the whole thing, while I suppose conservatives will enjoy this more for the "train wreck in slow motion" kind of entertaiment.

    One thing I got out of this is how to not start a radio network. First, don't rush the setup phase. Radio broadcasting technology is more complicated than one might think given that it's an almost century old type of media. Second, hire talent that's talented in radio. From what I remember only one of the original Air America personalities (Randi Rhodes) was a career radio talk show person. Third, keep your eye on the money.

    Another thing I got out of this was an inadvertant insight into what makes a lot (not necessarily all) of liberalism tick. Toward the beginning there is some footage of Air America personality Mark Maron explaining why he joined Air America. He said (and I really tried to get this right):

    "I've always spoken my mind. I've always been somewhat of a y'know reactionary person, y'know not always for the right reason y'know general y'know just authority problems but y'know if you focus those it looks a lot like y'know y'know uh ideological revolution."

    And y'know, I think he's "right on" with that. A lot of "progressives" seem to be just people with authority issues who somehow focus their anxiety, rage, etc. just enough to make it all look and sound as some sort of ideology, one they believe is fit to run this great republic/democracy of ours.

    Finally, I couldn't help but smirk a little bit at the end when I got to see "progressives" doing what so many of them seem to do best, and that's use the "f word" over and over; in this case while they watched the 2004 election results. The conservative viewer might consider this the happy ending, but the documentary provides a happy ending for the Air America fans out there too. So, everyone can be happy when this is over.
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  • Karlis Streips
    5.0 out of 5 stars Good luck to Air America!
    Reviewed in the United States on May 4, 2007
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    I live in Europe where the process of semi-fascist radio and television programmes has not occurred (thank God), but as one who has more or less followed the careers of druggie Rush Limbaugh, shrieking terrorist Ann Coulter and the like, I often wondered why the left was so quiet. This documentary answers the question and shows what happened when Air America was first set up -- lots of hope, lots of talent ... but not lots of lefty money, and so the whole gig almost went belly-up just a few days after it went on air. This is a very interesting documentary film, and it is enriched, of course, by the delightful antics of Jeanne Garofolo and Al Franken. Loved this documentary!
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  • Reelbuff
    5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Documentary
    Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2006
    This HBO documentary about the early days of Air America Radio is a pretty amazing piece of work. It's a real edge of your seat film with plenty of twists and turns to keep your attention. It's a total roller coaster ride with internal meltdowns, allegations of fraud, very funny political on-air stuff and loads of drama. Even if you're not a fan of Al Franken, Randi Rhodes and Janeane Garofalo (which I am) you'll find this behind the scenes documentary really compelling. The stuff with Randi Rhodes in particular is awesome -- she's a total revelation in this film. For anyone interested in re-visiting the political passions of 2004 this film is a must.

    Highly recommended.
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