January 21, 2025: 413 on Film

The Oscar nominations are due out this week and two of the frontrunners for Best-Picture nominations have connections to the 413.

 The Bob Dylan biopic "A Complete Unknown" is making headway in theaters now, and we’ll uncover the connection on the album cover of "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan" to a prominent business owner here in western Massachusetts. Patrick Pezzati from Turn It Up CDs and More is the cousin of Suze Rotolo, portrayed by Elle Fanning in the new movie.  We’ll have him help us separate Dylan fact from Dylan fiction, and discover how the shift she engendered in the folk singer's approach stems from a long running family tradition. 

And "The Brutalist" is now playing at Amherst Cinema. Right down the street from their theaters is a plethora of Brutalist architecture to explore on the UMass Amherst Campus. We’ll talk with Ludmilla Pavlova-Gillham, Senior Campus Planner and Architect at UMass to get her take on the film, the architectural style that inspired it, and the impact those buildings have on the institution's grounds. Also we’ll bring in our resident film buff, Mr. Universe,  Hampshire College's Salman Hameed, as the two explore the themes on immigration that resonated with each of them in the movie. .