- DiG!
Infobox Film
name = DiG!
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caption = Theatrical release poster
director =Ondi Timoner
producer = Ondi Timoner
writer = Ondi Timoner
narrator =
starring =Anton Newcombe Courtney Taylor-Taylor Joel Gion
music =
cinematography = Vasco Nunes
David Timoner
Ondi Timoner
editing = Ondi Timoner
distributor =Palm Pictures
released = January 18, 2004
runtime = 107 min.
country =United States
language = English
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imdb_id = 0388888"DiG!" is a
2004 documentary film directed byOndi Timoner , and produced byOndi Timoner ,Vasco Nunes and David Timoner. Compiled from seven years of footage, it contrasts the developing careers of the bandsThe Dandy Warhols andThe Brian Jonestown Massacre and the bands' respective frontmen Courtney Taylor andAnton Newcombe . It won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the 2004Sundance Film Festival .Newcombe argues that the documentary was unfair in its portrayal of him.Fact|date=July 2008 On the band's official website, Brian Jonestown Massacre frontman Anton Newcombe publicly denounced the film as reducing several years of hard work to "at best a series of punch-ups and mishaps taken out of context, and at worst bold faced lies and misrepresentation of fact."Fact|date=July 2008
ynopsis
Compiled from 2,000 hours of footage and narrated by Courtney Taylor, "DiG!" follows the underground artist Anton Newcombe, revealing him to be one of the more important (during the film, Newcombe claims to be able to play over eighty musical instruments) yet comparatively unnoticed artists of our time.
In 1996, Anton Newcombe and his band,
The Brian Jonestown Massacre – who in a decade independently released 11 albums, 3 recorded in one year – are hell-bent on staging a revolution in the music industry. They are convinced their friends,The Dandy Warhols , will join them to create a united front. But Anton destroys every opportunity for financial success, either because he's drunk/high on drugs, or just because he can't conform to what the record labels need him to do.While tracking the destructive path of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, "DIG!" also accompanies the more "well-adjusted" Warhols through their leader Courtney Taylor, as they navigate the corporate sea, trying to maintain their creative edge while starring in mega-budget music videos and entertaining crowds in the tens of thousands.
The Dandy Warhols' and The Brian Jonestown Massacre's friendship gradually grow further apart as Anton's destructive nature and extreme jealously creates tension between the two bands.
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External links
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