Lou Reed in Velvet Underground – Pop Screen 85

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The year is nearly done, but Pop Screen lingers on with an episode about Todd Haynes’s documentary The Velvet Underground. Covering the turbulent career of one of the most confrontational yet influential bands of the 1960s, it’s a film that’s got everything from deep discussions of minimalist composition to amusing […]

Weird Al Yankovich in UHF – Pop Screen 82

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This week, Pop Screen is taking you to Spatula City with this episode about America’s pre-eminent polka-crazed pop parodist “Weird Al” Yankovic and his 1989 film UHF. Prior to this month’s parody biopic Weird – in which he’s played by Daniel Radcliffe, in Radcliffe’s second era-defining role after Swiss Army […]