I'll start off with DiG!:
A Sundance winner from 2004 and focusing on the music, I decided to check this out. It shows the chronicles of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, and their founders Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor respectively.
Newcombe is the 'genius' that won't 'sell out,' and fail in signing with a music company and making a revolution. He ruins every chance of the band becoming the revolution that he wanted it to be, from fighting with fans and fellow band members to the typical drug addiction of rockstars. Taylor could be said as the lesser version of Newcombe, who respects Newcombe greatly but knows that he cannot and should not be like him. He and his Dandy Warhols receive a recording contract, and becomes a success even as far as Europe.
Such juxtaposition is justified of the movie's focus because these two bands used to be friends at one point, but became 'enemies' with a different agenda in the music industry. I honestly loved this film, because I'm fascinated with both bands, and the movie's theme was so much more than the bands themselves, raising question on how the same agenda could be approached so differently. And on a not so serious aspect, it was a funny film. I won't say much, and let the music documentry fans out there to find out for themselves.
A Sundance winner from 2004 and focusing on the music, I decided to check this out. It shows the chronicles of the Brian Jonestown Massacre and the Dandy Warhols, and their founders Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor respectively.
Newcombe is the 'genius' that won't 'sell out,' and fail in signing with a music company and making a revolution. He ruins every chance of the band becoming the revolution that he wanted it to be, from fighting with fans and fellow band members to the typical drug addiction of rockstars. Taylor could be said as the lesser version of Newcombe, who respects Newcombe greatly but knows that he cannot and should not be like him. He and his Dandy Warhols receive a recording contract, and becomes a success even as far as Europe.
Such juxtaposition is justified of the movie's focus because these two bands used to be friends at one point, but became 'enemies' with a different agenda in the music industry. I honestly loved this film, because I'm fascinated with both bands, and the movie's theme was so much more than the bands themselves, raising question on how the same agenda could be approached so differently. And on a not so serious aspect, it was a funny film. I won't say much, and let the music documentry fans out there to find out for themselves.
