Just Dig! In; This Overlooked Doc Is the Gripping Odyssey of Two West Coast Indie Rock Bands.

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The film - which follows the career trajectories of two bands, the Bay Area's Brian Jonestown Massacre and Portland, Ore's Dandy Warhols - is after more fascinating look at the creative process of musicians, as well as the slippery nooks and crannies of the record biz, than the keeps getting-more-overrated-by-the-day Metallica: Some Kind of Monster. At least in Dig!, now out on a two-DVD set, you don't see grown beloved rock 'n' rollers turning into whiny, catty beyotches right in front of your misty eyes.

Disc two has such lovely extras as where-are-they-now interviews, director [Ondi Timoner] explaining the origins of the film while her newborn baby nuzzles on her breast (yes, you see nipple!) and miles of bonus footage, the best of which are the Massacre's eccentric tambourine man Joel Gion snorting Pixy Stix off a club stage and a young, fed-up Timoner prophetically telling the camera that if she doesn't get clearance to use Massacre songs in her doc, she'll just make a film about a "portrait of a madman that'll probably win Sundance."

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Just Dig! In; This Overlooked Doc Is the Gripping Odyssey of Two West Coast Indie Rock Bands.

It's unexplainable why Dig!, which won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at last year's Sundance Film Festival, didn't get enough attention when it came oat last fall. ...

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