SummaryDig! is a feature-length documentary shot over seven years about musicians Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, head of the Dandy Warhols, star crossed friends and bitter rivals. (Palm Pictures)
Directed By:Ondi Timoner
Written By:Ondi Timoner
Dig!
Metascore
Generally Favorable
76
User score
Universal Acclaim
8.4
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
82% Positive
23 Reviews
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14% Mixed
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A vibrant and vivid documentary masterwork, DiG! will have you celebrating independent filmmaking while lamenting the state of independent music-making.
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The fascination of Dig! is that it invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
88
Anton, because after watching your tantrums, abuse and addiction in DIG! I went straight to the record store to buy your music. And that's something.
80
Should be required viewing for youngsters thinking about a music career. It's a great reminder to be careful what you wish for.
75
Captures the infantile fantasies of rock 'n' roll's self-made messiahs with an honesty that is rare in today's MTV world of promotional entertainment.
60
These flashes push Dig! beyond recording-industry kvetch, causing it to stay with you longer than either band's ephemeral music.
30
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.
User score
Universal Acclaim
80% Positive
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Jan 14, 2021
10
One of, if not the best rockumentary made.
This amazing and at times off the rails look at how 2 friends/bands became enemies, acts almost as an instructional video to all aspiring rock stars.
Must see.
Jan 15, 2014
6
Yeah, baby... except, the "stalking" behavior of the "insane" outcast musician Anton Newcombe seems blown out of proportion and played up, even by Newcombe, but especially by the Dandies, for effect. As a documentary and a party movie the scheme works... Most intriguing of all is Zia McCabe's admission of "paying for all of the coke" that funded the Dandy Warhols' collective musical inspiration - when it seems that the Brian Jonestown Massacre's decline is blamed on drug use?! Hypocritical at best.
Production Company:
- Interloper Films
Release Date:Oct 1, 2004
Duration:1 h 47 m
Rating:R
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
BendFilm Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Chlotrudis Awards
• 1 Nomination
