Dig!
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Synopsis
Seven years in the making, Ondi Timoner’s DIG! 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 friendship and bitter rivalry. Both are hellbent on staging a self-proclaimed revolution of the music industry. How each handles his stab at “success” is where the relationship frays and burns. Fresh, stylish, raucous, and raw, DIG! is a feat in rough-and-tumble filmmaking, but the conflicts it examines are as old as Mozart. Where does genius fit into a commodified world? Can it thrive and get its due, or does it need to self-destruct to preserve its integrity?
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Press
"Beyond the lure of going intimately behind the scenes with two excellent indie outfits (one drastically underappreciated), DIG! offers fascinating insights into how some vivid personalities fare in the music industry."
VARIETY
"Timoner followed Newombe’s band, the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and its archrival, the Dandy Warhols, for seven years and has put together some amazing footage of the rock life at its most exalted and most mundane."
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Dig! a new documentary by Ondi Timoner, gives a cinema verite spin to the endlessly fascinating pop-music soap opera formula of VH1’s Behind the Music."
THE NEW YORK TIMES
"Indie doc tracing indie rock bands boils down two bands, eight years, thousands of fans and infinite ambition into 105 minutes of standout filmmaking."
NETFLIX
Festivals
& Awards
Sundance International Film Festival
Best Documentary
Locarno International Film Festival
Vienna International Film Festival
Copenhagen International Film Festival
London Film Festival
Cast & Crew
| Anton Newcombe | |
|---|---|
| Courtney Taylor |
| Director | Ondi Timoner |
|---|---|
| Producers | Tim Rush, Jeff Frey |
| Co-producers | Vasco Lucas Nunes, David Timoner |
| Cinematography | Ondi Timoner, Vasco Lucas Nunes, David Timoner |
| Editor | Ondi Timoner |
| Sound | Noa Winter Lazerus, Greg Faust |
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