Mary Harron's 1996 film 'I Shot Andy Warhol' chronicled Valerie Solanas and the Factory scene; today it reads less like biography than prophecy. The Hollywood Reporter says the indie drama anticipated much of our current anxieties: influencer culture, gender polarization, and America's intersection of guns, fame, and violence. Three decades on, Harron's portrait of how obscurity breeds extremism and celebrity breeds obsession feels uncomfortably contemporary.

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