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From a host of legendary music docs to portraits of a still-in-progress pandemic and a Civil Rights leader’s persecution — the highlights of a banner year in nonfiction filmmaking
The director on why he needed to make a portrait of the seminal, influential subversives of dark Sixties rock & roll
Filmmaker also helped curate the movie’s accompanying soundtrack, featuring classic and rare tracks
I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground & Nico also features covers from Iggy Pop and Matt Sweeney, St. Vincent and Thomas Bartlett, and Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen, Michael Stipe, and more
The National lead singer was originally going to include a cover of “European Son” on his solo album Serpentine Prison
Between a mysterious 1975 song set and a bounty of new publications, the late trailblazer continues to fascinate new generations of scholars and superfans
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