Tim Jackson
It is Kristen Wiig’s committed performance, along with director Shira Piven’s skill at comic timing, that grounds the satiric comedy’s absurd premise.
Lambert & Stamp will resonate with musicians who have experienced the volatile give-and-take that is needed to sustain and nurture a rock and roll band.
“We’ve let too many valuable creative people leave for Brooklyn, Austin, and Portland. We need to do something about that.”
The puckish, irrepressible personality of James Randi — magician, escape artist, debunker of seers, psychics, and all things paranormal — is at the zesty heart of this memorable documentary.
The late Albert Maysles once said: “I don’t see, frankly, trying to make a film to create better understanding. Our motivations for making films aren’t intellectual ones.”
Director and writer Damián Szifrón fills his tales with lethal ironies and jarring twists of fate that build with relentless momentum to resolutions that somehow manage to be both horrid and comical.
Underground director Emile de Antonio saw films as “a way to make art out of political raw material.”
Brandy Burre is a trained actress who is artfully aware of the camera and its power: the director uses her skill as a performer to animate the film.
These are good people who have grown up playing country and pop music and are committed to giving the people what they want.
I don’t want to give anything away. Not that I could because I really had no idea what anyone was talking about, except that what it is really all about is love.
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