Podcasts
Podcasts
Saturday, May 7, 201605/07/2016
Vaya Con Muñoz 5.7.16
Marla Goldberg and I just can’t stop talking politics. She’s all about Bernie and I am with Hillary. We’re still friends even as we disagree in a big way. Also this week, the best film critic in the English-speaking world, the award-winning filmmaker Larry Hott joins Vaya con Muñoz for a weekly segment on the movies. These are not about silly Hollywood movies; these are thoughtful and thrilling movies. Our inaurgual segment starts with a review of the 1922 film by Robert J. Flaherty, “Nanook of The North.” You can watch the entire film in high def here. As Larry points out, it’s relevant today because of climate change.
You can see “On Thin Ice in the Bering Sea,” four ten-minute films by Florentine Films/Hott Productions and Tom Litwin at the NOVA/PBS link below. If you have trouble getting them to play on your system, the direct links to the films are on Dropbox at the links below.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/extremeice/thinice.html
The interviewees talking about the different words for ice is in Film #1 at 6:04 and ends at 7:00.
The woman serving the walrus meat meal is in Film #2 at 3:37 and ends at 4:55.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pjw0s5eg0631pah/1VOD_Ice1%20yt.mp4?dl=0
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wrda3m948b2kjdn/4VOD_ICE4%20yt.mp4?dl=0
In case you didn’t know already, Hott has been producing documentary films since 1978, when he left the practice of law to join Florentine Films. His awards include an Emmy, two Academy Award nominations, a George Foster Peabody Award, the duPont-Columbia Journalism Award, the Erik Barnouw Award, five American Film Festival Blue Ribbons, fourteen CINE Golden Eagles, screenings at Telluride, and first-place awards from the San Francisco, Chicago, National Educational, and New England Film Festivals.
Hott was the Fulbright Fellow in Film and Television in the United Kingdom in 1994. He received the Humanities Achievement Award from the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities in 1995; a Massachusetts Cultural Council/Boston Film and Video Foundation Fellowship in 2001; and the Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism in 2001 Hott has been on the board of non-fiction writers at Smith College and has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Massachusetts Cultural Commission, and the Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities. In 2009, 2010, and 2012 Hott presented his films in Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela and Algeria as part of the American Documentary Showcase, a program of the US Department of State. In 2015 he was a Fulbright Specialist in Vietnam teaching documentary in Hanoi, Da Nang, and Ho Chi Minh City. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts Sciences, the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.
His recent films for national PBS broadcast include Through Deaf Eyes, American Masters John James Audubon: Drawn From Nature, Niagara Falls, The Return of the Cuyahoga, Imagining Robert and The War of 1812. He has recently finished three films for broadcast:Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America, Rising Voices/ Hótȟaŋiŋpi: The Revitalization of the Lakota Language and SciTech Band: Pride of Springfield.
For more information see: www.florentinefilms.org
Friday, May 6, 201605/06/2016
Is Bigger Better for The Jones Library?
In Bill Newman
5/6: A brouhaha at the Amherst Library over its proposed expansion; Re-envisioning Foster Care in America and in the Valley, including a preview of the Youth-Truth Performance; then, flowering and cultivating SOS.
Thursday, May 5, 201605/05/2016
From A Protest To Pride
In Bill Newman
5/5: JM Sorrell on Northampton Pride; previewing the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra’s CD release concert; then, Cathedral in the Night (and on the streets) –a very moving Reverend and the Rabbi segment.
Wednesday, May 4, 201605/04/2016
Everybody’s Fool (FYI-It’s not Natalia Muñoz)
In Bill Newman
5/4: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Russo on his new book (pub date yesterday) “Everybody’s Fool.” Then, International Business magazine reporter Maria Gallucci joins Natalia Muñoz on the debt crisis in Puerto Rico.
Wednesday, May 4, 201605/04/2016
Brain Waves
In Bill Newman
5/3: John Elder Robison, best-selling author of “Look me in the Eye” on his new book “switched on: a memoir of brain change and emotional awakening.” Then a mash up of “Cool Films with Larry Hott” and (professor and astronomer) “Salman Hameed’s Universe.”
Tuesday, May 3, 201605/03/2016
On The Money (5/4/16)
Should we be happy with the current low market returns? Why is it so hard to be a do it…
Monday, May 2, 201605/02/2016
The Odyssey’s ‘Homer’
In Bill Newman
5/2: Award-winning journalist Tommy Shea on “Dingers: the 101 Most Memorable Home Runs in Baseball History.” Then, Black in the Valley.
Saturday, April 30, 201604/30/2016
Western Mass Business Show 4.30.16
In The Western Mass. Business Show
Ira talks with Nancy Whitley of Barton’s Angels
Saturday, April 30, 201604/30/2016
Vaya Con Muñoz 4.30.16
4.30.16 La Gran Maestra, Professor Emeritus Sonia Nieto talks about why multicultural education and diversity is fundamental for a more just world. Learning about ourselves helps us understand the world. And don’t get us started on teaching to the test! That notion gets an “F.” Author of several books, including her recent autobiography, “Brooklyn Dreams: My Life in Public Education,” Professor Nieto’s distinguished career continues as she travels nationwide and overseas talking about diversity in education. We end with a taste of “Love Bizarre” with Sheila E. and Prince.
Friday, April 29, 201604/29/2016
Bern out?
In Bill Newman
4/29: Has Bernie dramatically changed American politics and policies even if he doesn’t win the nomination? Hear the perspective of Josh Silver, CEO of Represent Us – Getting Big Money Out of politics. Then, Remember the Indies! with Odyssey Bookstore owner Joan Grenier.
