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‘Netflix are incredibly conservative’: documentary-maker Nick Broomfield interviewed

Adam Sweeting talks to the documentary-maker Nick Broomfield about the forgotten Rolling Stone

20 May 2023

9:00 AM

20 May 2023

9:00 AM

A documentary by Nick Broomfield is always to some extent about Nick Broomfield. He has cultivated an image as a gonzo filmmaker, striding into shot holding a boom microphone, headphones clamped over his ears, and in the politest possible way provoking chaos. ‘Unfortunately it comes very easily to me, to be slightly out of control,’ he confesses.

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