Cube Critic: 'Lambert and Stamp'
by Euan Kerr
April 24, 2015
Cube Critic Euan Kerr joins Jill Riley and Sean McPherson (in for Steve Seel) to talk about a new documentary about the managers of rock band, The Who.
"Let me say from the outset, if you were a fiction writer, you couldn't make this stuff up," Euan says. "It's just absolutely fascinating."
The film follows Kit Lambert and Chris Stamp, two men who were like chalk and cheese — one was Oxbridge educated and the son of a classical composer, the other a tugboat captain's son — but they befriended one another given their shared interested in French New Wave films.
Lambert and Stamp wanted to become filmmakers themselves, but after growing frustrated at earlier efforts, they decided to find a rock 'n' roll band about whom they could make a film. It was at that point they encountered The Who, and eventually converted them to a global phenomenon.
The film features archival footage as well as more recent interviews with Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend.
If you enjoy music documentaries, "This is definitely one to see," Euan says.
Lambert and Stamp is rated R and is playing at the Landmark Lagoon Cinema in Minneapolis.
MPR's Cube Critics, Stephanie Curtis or Euan Kerr, join The Current's Morning Show to talk about films every Friday at 8:30 a.m.