“I Want My MTV” (***1/2 out of four) was a dazzling documentary about MTV which took television and the cultural and creative landscape by storm in 1981 and changed the commercial and visual impact of music in the 1980’s and became a pop cultural phenomenon that seemed destined to last forever but was eventually flamed out by the rise of the internet and especially YouTube. Full of great music-video clips and interviews with former MTV VJ’s and also Sting, Kevin Cronin, and many others which put you right back into the center of the ’80’s craze again. An impressively done film about commerce, capitalism, and how one channel sent waves of change throughout an entire decade.

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