Dig! (2004)

Documentary

1 hr. 50 min.

Rockumentary looks at bad rocker behavior, focusing on The Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Won the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival.

Not Rated

Directed by: Ondi Timoner

Starring: Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor

Theatrical Release Date: 10/01/2004

Release Type: NY/LA

U.S. Box Office: $127,067

Video/DVD Release Date: 4/12/2005

Distributor: Palm Pictures

Country: USA

Language: English

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CRITIC	RATING	QUOTE
Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt	8	...affecting...
E!	10	...a hilarious and at times heartbreaking cautionary tale.
filmcritic.com Christopher Null	7	...even considering its flaws, DiG! isn't a bad way to spend 80 minutes.
TV Guide Ken Fox	7	It's a fascinating film that manages to touch on subjects as diverse as mental illness and what's wrong with the record industry, set to brilliant music by the one of the best bands you've probably never heard.
Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman	9	...it invites those of us who aren't alt-rock obsessives into the hive, yet it never feels like a dilettante's tour.
New York Times A. O. Scott	7	...feels more archetypal than formulaic, and also more real.
Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano	6	...is really about all the sad and funny things that happen at the intersection between art and commerce.
LA Weekly Ernest Hardy	7	Timoner’s movie is as much a chronicle of the ways in which the music industry hamstrings careers and collapses upon itself as it is about the dazzling rise of one band and the spectacular implosion of another.
Village Voice Laura Sinagra	6	...goes beyond recording-industry kvetch, causing it to stay with you longer than either band's ephemeral music.
Onion AV Club Nathan Rabin	4
Premiere Aaron Hillis	6	It's an amusingly drunken PBS-worthy human-interest doc, unless you're too old or not cool enough to have played in the embarrassing hipster zoo, in which case DiG! may be the closest you'll ever get to the uncaged animals.
Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt	9	...powerful...

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ALL AVERAGE CRITIC RATING	7.2
AVERAGE USER RATING (2 ratings)	7.0

USER REVIEWS:

stevilbot 6

it's kind of interesting to see how ****ed up rockstars (even B-C list rockstars and in this case E-F list) let their lives get.

there are the obvious comments about dysfunctional family life and substance abuse, but more interesting than anything else in this rocumentary, is the petty rivalry you get insights into.

it's a pretty decent way to kill an hour and a half if you need to chill.