Dig!

Shot over seven years, DIG! chronicles the rivalry of musicians Anton
Newcombe, leader of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and Courtney Taylor,
head of The Dandy Warhols. From the moment they met, the two bands
quickly bonded over a desire to not conform to the tastes of the
recording industry. Yet their choices over how to express their
creativity and originality in a profit-driven industry eventually put
them at irreconcilable odds. Writer/director Ondi Timoner's film reveals
both musicians' loves and obsessions, gigs and recordings, arrests and
death threats, uppers and downers-as they unfold with the passage of
time.



"Powerful! Transcends the roc-doc genre." - Andrew Strickman, ROLLING
STONE



  "Timoner doesn’t intrude on the events being filmed or impose editorial comment on what the audience is watching, and there’s no need to." -- Ernest Hardy, L.A. WEEKLY



  "The movie, which was seven years in the making, plays like a mid-'90s "Amadeus."" -- Carina Chocano, LOS ANGELES TIMES



  "What emerges is a fascinating portrait of an -artist as a self-destructive young man - Brian Jonestown's -resident "mad genius," Anton Newcombe, whose drug and drink-fueled antics on and offstage make Jim -Morrison look like Jim Nabors."
-- Robert Dominguez, NEW YORK DAILY NEWS



  "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." -- James Greenberg, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER



  "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." -- Dennis Harvey, VARIETY



  "An unusually insightful rockumentary, and filmmaker Ondi Timoner provides a comprehensively candid look at two hugely talented indie bands over the course of seven years." -- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST



  "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."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES



  "[A] kinetic tale of the love-hate relationship between the Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor and the Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe." -- Laura Sinagra, VILLAGE VOICE