Should you watch Dig!?
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Dig!
Documentary · 2004
A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.
The sides of Dig!
- Two rock bands followed for years
- A friendship that becomes a rivalry
- Anton Newcombe falling apart on tour
Dig! is good for you if…
- you love 90s indie and psychedelic rock.
- you can't look away from Anton Newcombe's genius and chaos.
- you like a band film that shows the fights and the failures.
Dig! is bad for you if…
- you can't watch drug addiction take a musician apart.
- you can't spend two hours with a frontman who fights his own bandmates on stage.
About: rivalry · ambition · self-destruction
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