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Jan. 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.

While the Bob Dylan biopic, "A Complete Unknown" directed James Mangold, is making headway in theaters, we uncover how the album cover of "The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan" is linked to Patrick Pezzati, owner of Turn It Up! CDs and More! and cousin of Suze Rotolo. He helps us separate Dylan fact from Dylan fiction and discover how her impact in the folk singer's approach stems from a long running family tradition.

And, "The Brutalist" directed by Brady Corbet is now playing at Amherst Cinema, right down the street from a plethora of brutalist architecture to explore on the UMass Amherst Campus. We 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. We also bring in our resident film buff, Mr. Universe, Salman Hameed of Kainaat Studios and Hampshire College, as the two explore the themes on immigration that resonated with each of them in the movie.

Dylan deep dive
"The Brutalist"

Christopher “Monte'' Belmonte is host and executive producer of NEPM's The Fabulous 413. He was born and raised in Massachusetts and has been a radio host in western Massachusetts for the last 20 years — the last 17 of them as host of Mornings with Monte on The River 93.9/WRSI.
Kaliis Smith is a radio host and producer for NEPM's The Fabulous 413. She was most recently host and producer at The River 93.9/WRSI where she appeared on Mornings with Monte for the Nerdwatch segment and hosted weekday evenings.