'The greatest music documentary ever made...
captures life as a rock band on the road like no other.'
Dave Grohl

'DIG! XX' explodes and rebuilds a cult rock doc.'
Rolling Stone

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Love rock 'n' roll, musical rivalries, comically large sideburns, performative decadence, delusional dreamers, tragicomic buffoonery?

'DIG! XX' is the extended 20th anniversary edition of the wildly entertaining rock documentary 'DIG!'. A bigger, better, crazier expanded reimagining of the original cut - with new narration, and featuring 40+ minutes of never-before-seen footage - which brings this epic tale through to today, reminds us why the original is canon, and why sometimes, more is better.

'DIG! XX' looks at the collision of art and commerce through the star-crossed friendship and bitter rivalry of duelling, dysfunctional Gen-X bands, The Dandy Warhols and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. Through their rockstar ambitions, loves and obsessions, gigs, arrests and death threats, uppers and downers, self-sabotage, and ultimately to their shot at mainstream success, and how they staged a self-proclaimed revolution in the music industry.

'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.'
Collider

'Grade A... 'DIG! XX', consciously or not, starkly demystifies the f*cked-up tortured artist fairytale.'
The Playlist

'It's like a spectacular roadside accident: you can't turn away.'
Newsweek

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20 years ago, the Sundance Film Festival was rocked by 'DIG!', filmmaker Ondi Timoner's comprehensively candid, compulsively detailed, and sensationalistic, documentary masterwork doubling as an essay on self-destruction.

Shot over nearly a decade, 'DIG!'s in-your-face footage of the rock life at its most exalted and most mundane - on the road, in hotel rooms, backstage - portraited the journey to alt-rock glory of two bands from the Pacific Northwest. A resonant, often painfully funny, drama about two good friends - The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor and The Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe - who become enemies against the backdrop of the pop-music business.

Linked together by a deadpan, melancholy narration, it's filled with parasites, charlatans and oddballs. Not to mention a succession of wonderful songs. No film better captures the tension between authenticity and ambition that bedevils modern rock music - the impossibility of reconciling success with integrity.

The Dandy Warhols, Portland-based Bohemian throwback rockers led by Courtney Taylor-Taylor with Peter Holmström, Zia McCabe, and then–drummer Brent DeBoer, were ambitious, egotistical, into hedonistic sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll, but not without a serious work ethic for seriously catchy, though sardonic, tunes. The Brian Jonestown Massacre were a more chaotic neo-psychedelic '60s-based throwback band, mixing the Stones, The Beatles, and LSD into a mystic reverie of hypnotic rock, led by the mercurial and unpredictable Anton Newcombe, known to some as a genius, a prophet or a Charles Manson-like a maniac and maybe all three, whose drug and drink-fueled antics on and offstage make Jim Morrison look like Jim Nabors.

★★★★★
'A documentary classic.'
The Guardian

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Ondi Timoner is an internationally-acclaimed Emmy-nominated filmmaker whose work focuses on 'impossible visionaries'. She has the rare distinction of being the only person to win the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance twice: for 'DIG!' (2004), and for 'We Live In Public' (2009), about the loss of privacy online. Both films were acquired by New York's MoMA for its permanent collection. Ondi's most personal film, 'Last Flight Home', about the extraordinary life and intentional death of her father, Eli Timoner, premiered at Sundance and Telluride in 2022, was Oscar-shortlisted, received The Humanitas Award for Best Documentary, was nominated for the WGA Award for Best Documentary and for the Emmy for Exceptional Merit.

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