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‘DIG! XX’ Review: Ondi Timoner’s Outstanding 2004 Rock Doc Is Back For More – Sundance Film Festival
At the height of their failure, every day was Altamont for the Brian Jonestown Massacre, the San Francisco outfit founded in 1990 by Anton Newcombe, the Klaus Kinski of psychedelic rock. Just in ti…
Second time round, it becomes all the more apparent that Timoner’s film had its roots in another project; called The Cut, it was supposed to follow ten unsigned bands as they navigated the music industry. Considered a visionary by some, notably the Dandy Warhols ‘Courtney Taylor, who narrates, Newcombe is also 40 miles of bad road, a rough terrain that can be seen more clearly now, in the rear-view mirror of 20 years. This outstanding reinterpretation reflects that theme of art and commerce much more broadly, being an arguably more truthful document than Peter Jackson’s revisionist account of The Beatles’ break-up in his 2021 series Get Back.
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