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Dig!
2005 1h 47m R
Documentary
,
Music
7.7
89%
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A documentary on the once-promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols, and the friendship/rivalry between their respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor.
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Directed By
Ondi Timoner
Written By
Ondi Timoner
Studio
Interloper Films
Cast of Dig!
Anton Newcombe
Self
Courtney Taylor-Taylor
Self
Joel Gion
Self
Matt Hollywood
Self
Peter Holmström
Self
Zia McCabe
Self
Brent DeBoer
Self
Eric Hedford
Self
Dean Taylor
Self
Genesis P-Orridge
Commentator
Adam Shore
Commentator
David LaChapelle
Self
Amanda Lepore
Self
Harry Dean Stanton
Self
Dig! Reviews
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Dig! strikes it rich by contrasting the stories of two bands going in different directions and the animosity that builds between them.
Orlando Sentinel
Roger Moore
It's a classic music soap opera, but never told with a more raw scream for help at its center.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bob Townsend
Its power comes from Timoner sticking with the story over the long haul -- on the road, in hotel rooms, backstage -- getting in-your-face footage and telling a good tale with it.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
There's nothing cautionary in DiG! that you couldn't learn by renting the 1986 Sex Pistols-related biopic Sid and Nancy -- or exploring the commercially still-born yet revered career of the Velvet Underground.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
[An] unflinching look at the rock world.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Chris Riemenschneider
In a year that has seen several fascinating documentaries on famous rock stars and their problems, Dig! stands out for being about musicians who only think they should be famous. And, man, do they have problems.
Seattle Times
Ted Fry
A genuine rock mockumentary. Cautionary? Naw, but sometimes scary, often hilarious and always engrossing.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
The film ends up producing a sensation similar to the one that comes with discovering a good new band or album.
Chicago Tribune
Allison Benedikt
After watching your [Anton's] tantrums, abuse and addiction in DIG! I went straight to the record store to buy your music. And that's something.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
I don't know that I've seen a film that better captures the tension between authenticity and ambition that bedevils modern rock music -- the sense that a mass audience is something to be desired and detested at one and the same time.
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
The film is so candid and real that it's like watching a friend slip into the morass of addiction, obsession, and pig-headed self-absorption.
San Francisco Chronicle
Joel Selvin
Filmmaker Ondi Timoner followed the entangled rise of these two bands from the Pacific Northwest with an obsessive compulsive's eye for detail.
Newsweek
David Ansen
It's like a spectacular roadside accident: you can't turn away.
Miami Herald
Marta Barber
I must admit that I came out of DiG! with a certain degree of admiration for Newcombe -- and for this documentary.
Washington Post
Richard Harrington
Ultimately undermined by the fact that the two rock bands Timoner chose to focus on -- the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols -- simply don't matter as much as she thinks they do.
Slate
James Barber
The movie has become a kind of highway-safety film for the rock community.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An unusually insightful rockumentary, and filmmaker Ondi Timoner provides a comprehensively candid look at two hugely talented indie bands over the course of seven years.
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
It invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The movie, which was seven years in the making, plays like a mid-'90s "Amadeus."
New York Daily News
Robert Dominguez
What emerges is a fascinating portrait of an artist as a self-destructive young man - Brian Jonestown's resident "mad genius," Anton Newcombe, whose drug and drink-fueled antics on and offstage make Jim Morrison look like Jim Nabors.
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