• Two of our favorite clips from Dogma aired on television in an unlikely place yesterday, the U.K.! The BBC film show “Film 99”, hosted by Jonathan Ross (who said Dogma was the funniest film at Cannes), was proud to unveil these scenes, courtesy of Dogma’s new distributor in the U.K., Film Four! Yep, you heard it right, Film Four has picked up distribution rights to the flick overseas, and actually plans a SEPTEMBER release for the film! Will that beat out a U.S. release? Time will tell.

The clips were presented in their true ratio of 2.35:1. A description follows of each, which are VERY spoiler filled (considering these were 2 of the best scenes in the film, in our opinion), so click the Dante button on the right ONLY if you wish to reveal the text and be spoiled:

1) Alan Rickman (Metatron) arrives in Linda Fiorantino’s (Bethany’s) bedroom. . He was in her room and on fire, she put him out with a fire extinguisher, and then he complains that it’s ruined his suit. She then asked if he’s gonna rape her, and he says he can’t, as angels don’t have any genitals…Which he proves.

In relation to this clip, Ben had a comment in an interview he gave:”I had to imagine what life would be like without my genitals and, erm, that was the research I did, I castrated myself, ‘cos I’m a method actor, you know how we are in America, and erm, Hence forth I had a whole new perspective on life. And that’s really what I brought with me to the role, unfortunately I haven’t been able to shake it since. But, er, that’s the price of, er, you know being commited to your art.”

2) The next clip was Bartelby and Loki on a bus. A man and a woman (the man being Scott Mosier) are kissing in a nearby seat. Loki (Matt Damon) asks Scott if he’s married, to which he shows his wedding ring in reply. Matt then asks if it was to the woman he was kissing, Scott replies no. Matt then pulls out a gun and it cuts to outside the bus where we see a flash and hear a bang.

Here’s what the BBC website had to say about the film, by the way (BEGIN VERY MINOR SPOILERS):

Finally, The Movie Show on SBS TV (in Australia) ALSO showed some scenes from the film. Sounds like “Dogma” fever is sweeping the globe!