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Todd Haynes Talks ‘The Velvet Underground,’ Lou Reed What-Ifs & His Peggy Lee Biopic [Interview]

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Musical biography, with its well-worn beats of sudden stardom and hedonistic self-immolation, lends itself to cliché like few other cinematic genres.

But Todd Haynes has spent a goodly portion of his career deftly skirting the Dewey Cox-ian, instead contriving original narrative and formal means to communicate what makes a given legend distinct and meaningful.

In the case of his new documentary “The Velvet Underground,” he accomplishes this by paying as much homage to the seminal downtown rock act as their scene, situating their success within a wider movement of horizon-broadening artistic experimentalism.

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