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Plot:
Tracks the tumultuous rise of two talented musicians, Anton Newcombe, leader of the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy Warhols, and dissects their star-crossed friendsh...( read more 
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MCT:May 7, 2008
The juxtaposition of these two bands provides an incredibly fascinating back-and-forth. While both bands are growing musically, one is growing commercially and the other is gaining critical acclaim, yet imploding. I'm still marveling that someone turned on the cameras and kept them rolling. Some of what was captured was just simply incredible. You couldn't have made a doc about either band alone, but putting them in contrast was such an inspired take.
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MCT:April 28, 2008I love this movie. It's not for the mainstream. I got every ounce I could find of BJM after I saw this. I remember seeing their flyers in SF in the early 90's.
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MCT:April 21, 2008
nothing ground breaking but an interesting story of how a breed of people who live in LA are grade A dickheads.
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MCT:March 16, 2008
This 2004 rock and roll documentary follows the careers of a pair of rival alternative bands over the course of seven years. I hadn?t heard of wither band before watching the documentary, and I can?t say that it makes me want to run out and buy music from either, but it was still a very interesting story. The film is essentially trying to be Metallica: Some Kind of Monster meets Hoop Dreams, I liked it more than the former and nowhere near as much as the later. Of the two bands The Dandy Warhols came off as not only a more interesting band but also a more agreeable and professional outfit, whereas Anton Newcombe came off as a self destructive cocksucker. The film felt a bit disorganized in the beginning, particularly the continuity, but it reall came together in the second half. I would have liked to hear a little more music, Newcombe is constantly getting high praise and grandiose comparisons and I heard almost nothing in the music displayed here that to explain where this is coming from. The morale of the story is that it takes more than raw talent to succeed, you also need to have your shit together.
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MCT:February 7, 2008
Dig! is the most fascinating documentary I've watched since the Fearless Freaks, an odd statement to make since Dig! came out first, but sometimes I take some time catching up... and by sometimes, I mean all of the time. Anyway, here we have the rivaling stories of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre, friends and rival bands that have very different ways of dealing with the record industry and their music, and have since, gone on very different paths. It's an extremely interesting study of many things. The record industry is thoroughly scrutinized through the eyes of the Dandys, four hard working suburban kids who're just trying to make it, and don't feel bad about signing as long as they feel they can do it on their terms, compromising a music video here or there to make it. We see first hand the label managers and video directors they dealth with, and get both sides of what it feels like to be a signed band today. Meanwhile, BJM front man Anton escalates a rivalry with his former friend and Dandy leader Courtney. As the Dandys get bigger, BJM stays in the same place, largely because of Anton's unchecked insanity and ego. He's reckless, fights with bandmates and audience members alike, and in the end feels like he's the only member of BJM. As the bands grow apart, the rivalry becomes larger, and we see the parallel of a pretty successful pop group with a group doomed to failure and make our own judgements about what's worth it and what isn't. Ondi Timoner put her heart and soul into this project, filming over 1500 hours of footage and cutting it down into a funny, hectic, and enlightening 107 minute piece of what it's like to be a band in America. Anyone who has any interest in rock music at all would do well to check out Dig!
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MCT:December 13, 2007
Two of my favorite bands in a documentary. This documentary is about the friendship/rivarly between the bandmates of The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. Now apparently some of the movie sort of bends the truth, but it didnt effect my respect for both bands. it shows that both bands are geniuses when it comes to music, escpecially Anton Newcombe of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. So please see this.
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MCT:November 20, 2007
This was hilariously awesome. This musical documentary on the tumultuous relationship between the Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols is both nifty and a bit crazy.
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MCT:October 13, 2007
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MCT:October 11, 2007
You don't have to like the Dandy Warhols or BJM to love this documentry of two self obsessed bands out to trump one another.
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MCT:September 25, 2007Anton Newcombe may be an utterly narcissistic, self-obsessed, delusional, smack-addled waste of phenomenal talent. But this poster boy for unfulfilled potential makes those of us who perpetually feel like we're underperforming in life feel a little bit better about our accomplishments. However, this movie still makes me want to kick him in the face.
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MCT:September 21, 2007
Good doc (the post production on this thing is fucking amazing, it must have been murder cleaning the audio). God damn do you end up hating both the bands, everybody in this movie is a fucking asshole.
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MCT:August 28, 2007
A great display of 1990's neo-hippy posers who make music as an excuse to use drugs... and the drugs are the excuse for the bad music.
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MCT:August 24, 2007A great documentary about the rise, and fall (of at least one of the bands), of two bands (The Dandy Warhols and Brian Jamestown Massacre) who used to be friends and ended up as rivals. Very real and also a great study in mental illness in the lead singer, Anton Newcombe, of Brian Jamestown Massacre. Definitely worth a viewing and it also has great music on the soundtrack.
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MCT:July 11, 2007
superb insight into the other side of the 'rock'n'roll' game, the side that never made it. although i'd have been pleased if Anton Newcombe's or BJM's talent had come anywhere near the constant hype people chatted about them throughout the film. to me they just sounded like a.n. other indie band you'd hear down the pub of a friday night. so, i'm still stolidly unconvinced of the "genius" of Anton, but the doc does a brilliant job of showing the demented conflict of road life and inter-band rivalry. the other side of the story concerns the Dandy Warhols as a whole rather than just Courtney Taylor, actually, but basically in this film everyone who isn't Anton is the straight man anyway. maybe his real genius is the PT Barnum-esque self-mythologising that he's somehow used to convince everybody he's the new Tchaikovksy. that and his capability for chaos, of course.
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MCT:June 13, 2007This document of a douchetard convention is either the worst music documentary ever made or the best comedy ever made. The battle between Newcombe and Taylor as far as who's more pretentious is easily won by Taylor, but Newcombe definitely takes the cake for being more fucked up. Dig is great if you're looking for laughs, but Taylor's "I'm so fucking cool" narration drags it down when Newcombe isn't acting like a total asswipe in the most entertaining of ways. Any interest I had in listening to Brian Jonestown Massacre is now completely out of my system and if I had any Dandy Warlhols albums to sell that would definitely make the top of my to-do list even though I don't mind the Warhols' music. But the more I think about this, the more I laugh. The BJM show at the communist headquarters, Newcombe's ramblings and impromptu fights, Taylor playing shirtless--it's all gold.
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MCT:June 4, 2007
Entertaining music documentary, but a year later the only thing I remember is when Anton kicked that dude in the face.
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MCT:June 3, 2007
If nothing else, this documentary gave me more reasons to hate the Dandy Warhols. And fuck do I hate them.
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MCT:May 21, 2007
Could be the best rock-umentary ever made. It doesn't even matter that it focuses on a band that most people don't know from a bar of soap (including myself before seeing this film). And no I'm not talking about the Dandy Warhols, because the movie is more centred around the "career" of the Brian Jones Town Massacre.
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MCT:April 15, 2007
Umm... this has the Dandy Warhols in it. Who gives a shit what it is, it has to be a masterpiece. And it is.
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MCT:April 6, 2007
A good idea. Made me slighly interested in the BRIAN JOHNSTOWN MASSSACRE!
But annoyd me throughout because they fucked up every chance for a record deal!
in this sense...why bother withthe SPECIAL EDITION!
BUt my friend SHANE loved it so. THere is love out there for this edition somewhere! COOL! -
MCT:February 12, 2007
The greatest rock n roll film ever about the coolest most under-rated band. And I'm not talking about the Dandy Warhols. Anton Newcombe is genius. Period.
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MCT:January 9, 2007
Interesting documentary that plays like a modern day Amadeus ... but between Dandy Warhols & Brian Jonestown Massacre which one is Mozart & which one is Salieri ?
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MCT:September 30, 2006
A really great "rockumentry" about the friendship and eventual rivalry between the bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. The former would rise to become very succesful while the latter would fall due to drugs, in-fighting and self-sabortage...most of which is done the bands lead singer/songwriter. A great doco in every way. Great songs from both of the bands.
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MCT:September 17, 2006
Hello? A movie about the Dandy Warhols!? I'm obliged to give it 5 stars. But it was good. And Anton, what a freak... i love musos
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