Dig!

Name: Dig!
Genre: Music, Documentary
Released: October 1, 2004
Duration: 107 min
Rating: 76
Cast: Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor

2004

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Palm Pictures | Release Date: October 1, 2004 | R

Starring: Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor

Summary: Dig! 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)

Director: Ondi Timoner

Genre(s): Music, Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 107 min

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Joel Selvin

Remarkable rockumentary. Read full review

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Ty Burr

The result is one of the most unforgiving ground-level documentaries about the music business ever made -- the six-string equivalent of "Hoop Dreams." Read full review

James Barber

The movie has become a kind of highway-safety film for the rock community. Read full review

Tim Merrill

Fascinating, horrifying and hilarious. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

A hip eye-opener. Read full review

Dana Stevens

If universities ever start graduate programs in rock stardom, Dig! will surely be a cornerstone of the curriculum, for it works as both an instruction manual and a cautionary tale. Read full review

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. Read full review

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geewah

Jan 14, 2021

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.

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MojoP.

Sep 4, 2006

Funny, fun, amazing music, and most of all, it's inspirational and teaches you a lot about the music industry and how to make it and how to fail. It was an adventure through and through and at no point did it get slow or boring. Plus the music was fantastic. Although it was a bit of a Funny, fun, amazing music, and most of all, it's inspirational and teaches you a lot about the music industry and how to make it and how to fail. It was an adventure through and through and at no point did it get slow or boring. Plus the music was fantastic. Although it was a bit of a Springeresque portrayal of the Massacre, it wasn't overly innacurate either. A mad fun flick to watch any given night. Rent it!… Expand

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Wood_Coin

Jan 15, 2014

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 ZiaYeah, 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.… Expand

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