Part of Music City Mondays
20 years ago, Sundance was rocked by DIG!, Ondi Timoner’s genre-topping rockumentary about two Gen-X bands and their journey to alt-rock glory. Shot over nearly a decade, DIG! explores the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry of dueling 90s bands The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Through their loves and obsessions, gigs, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, and ultimately to their shot at mainstream success, they stage a self-proclaimed revolution in the music industry. DIG! XX – a bigger, better, crazier expanded reimagining of the original cut – reminds us why the original is canon and why sometimes, more is better.
"It rocks. The first movie rocked and this version rocks even harder because the truth is that I could watch the saga of the Dandy Warhols and the Brian Jonestown Massacre for hours." —Brian Tallerico, RogerEbert.com "After all these years, this documentary is still as jarring, hilarious, and deeply strange as it ever was, and these new additions only make this shocking story even more astonishing." —Ross Bomaine, Collider “Wildly entertaining ... Maybe because of its place in time in culture, DIG! arguably feted the authenticity of mad-Mozart-esque virtuosity and slandered the Dandys as lesser-than and less legitimate because they weren’t as dangerous, weren’t as rock and roll volatile as the riotously creative as BJM and Newcombe. DIG XX, however, consciously or not, starkly demystifies the f*cked-up tortured artist fairytale." —Rodrigo Perez, The Playlist
