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Cinesomnia: Dig!

Cinematical.com clued me into a new site with free movies. You can head over to www.snagfilms.com to check out some new movies. One movie that they have is Dig!, a documentary about the rise of the Dandy Warhols and the fall of the Brian Jonestown Massacre. I'm not sure if the embed/widget really works so if it doesn't you can click here to watch the movie.

One thing that is very interesting about the film is that you really have to read between the lines. Obviously the film is biased; it's narrated by the leader of the Dandy Warhols. But it is also odd in that it buys into the notion that Anton, the leader of the Massacre, is this absolute genius. They continue to buy their own BS and feed this guy's ego even though they saw what became of him and how the supposed success never really materialized. In the end, it's a meditation on two bands who were never as appreciated as they thought they should have been but the film never really goes into whether or not they really should have ever been all that appreciated. It's an interesting doc especially because the doc itself says as much about Courtney Taylor, leader of the Dandy's, as the footage does of Anton.


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