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When it comes to subjects for her documentaries and books, the New York–based filmmaker and author Lisa Immordino Vreeland has been drawn to highly accomplished yet deeply flawed characters. Since 2011, she has directed acclaimed films about Harper’s Bazaar editor and Vogue editor in chief Diana Vreeland (her husband’s grandmother) and art collector Peggy Guggenheim, both of whom had fraught personal lives. Her latest subject, Cecil Beaton—a creative giant whose life intersected with many of the boldest names of the 20th…