Archive for October 7th, 1999

DogmaBits™

October 7th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Jess, Hoser, Vishal Sharma, Dizza, Josh Babetski

  • Here’s a few stories too small for article pages, but we thought worth a read anyway. The first comes from People Online, the second from AnotherUniverse
Matt Damon Is Cool

More on Monday’s New York Film Festival premiere of “Dogma,” after yesterday’s PEOPLE Daily report on the protest staged by some outraged Catholics over the film’s satirical take on death: “These people haven’t even seen the film yet,” the film’s co-star Matt Damon told PEOPLE as demonstrators shouted at him (and, in one case, thrust rosary beads at him). “I’m all for protests, but I think you have to see (the film) to know what you’re talking about. But I defend anybody’s right to protest.” An agitated-looking Ben Affleck, who costars in the movie, acted surly at the premiere and refused to speak to the press. He attended the festivities with his mother.


Dogma’s Big Apple Fans, Pans

When Kevin Smith’s highly irreverent new film Dogma opened in New York Monday night, it drew critical acclaim as well as vehement protests from about 1,500 people gathered outside the Lincoln Center. The protestors were led by New York’s Auxiliary Bishop Francisco Garmendia, standing in for Cardinal John O’ Conner, and were bolstered by a pan of the film from Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Smith noted, “We thought we were going to have to battle the Catholics, not the mayor.” But Ben Affleck, who stars in the film, joked about being late for the premiere. “Sorry it took so long. We stopped to pray with the protesters.”

We’re also added these stories to Dogma RC, along with a new review…So make that part of your daily visit, of course.

Interview Magazine Piece Online…

October 7th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • We’ve FINALLY got a transcript and scans of the wonderful piece in Interview Magazine, thanks to Chris Reaves for doing the legwork on this one. Enjoy the interview and the pics, including one of cute little Harley!

Dogma Premiere/Party Pics!

October 7th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

Ben, Ming, and SalmaBrad and Chris

Ming and BrianTheater Marquee

  • We’ve never been known to carry a camera around to take pics of stuff, and just never felt comfortable asking celebs if we could have our pics taken with them, so you probably noticed the lack of original shots from our latest diary from the Dogma Premiere on Monday as well as our stories in the past. Luckily, Ming was along with his trusty camera and has some exclusive shots for us today. Ming’s got a couple pics with him and some of the big names there, including A classic with him sandwiched Ben and Salma. There’s also a shot of the Lowe’s electronic marquee displaying the Dogma logo (cool stuff). And yes, there’s even one of us in there (it was taken in the back of the VIP area, not outside of a dressing room at The Gap as it might appear). Chris is on the left, Brad’s on the right, FYI. Click all these thumbs for larger, clearer versions. We think Ming’s got more, too, but may be using them as part of a special page for the View Askew site. Not sure what he’s got in store at this point.

As for the Red Bank showing at the end of this month, we’re not sure if we’re coming in for that or not. It’s not that we wouldn’t LOVE to see Dogma again, and meet some of you as well, it’s just that we’re getting low on days off from work due to all of these weekday events, plus with the busy month of moving and all, well…It’s gonna be tight. We’ll see, though. Thanks to all of you that asked about it, though, we’ll keep ya posted. Glad so many of you were able to get your tickets.

Commentary

October 7th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Brad & Chris

  • The daily updates continue…When there’s this much news, there’s never time for a day off! We got ya covered though. Actually, compared to the past couple of days, today’s fairly light, though we DO have some shots from the premiere and the post party (courtesy of Ming), a couple more articles and NewsBites, but no HUGE news. Enough to make it worth the stop, though.

I’m closing on my house a week from today, and the MAJOR move is taking place the weekend after that, when myself, Chris, and our other roomie Steve lug all of our stuff into our 3 respective new places. We’ll be changing internet service providers then, too, but expect that to be transparent to all of you. There just may be a day or two without an update and a delay in e-mail responses as we get settled in again. It’s been a fun ride at this apartment, but it was just time we all moved onto our own places. The actual moving of some of this stuff is gonna suck, though.

By the way, the broken clips from yesterday have been fixed, so try them again! Sorry for any inconvenience.

Alrighty then, let’s see what we’ve got today:

View Askew NewsBites™

October 7th @ 12:00 am | No Comments » | Scooped by Nathan Spillman, Neil Marks, TVJ, Josh Babetski

  • DVD Website extraordinaire The Digital Bits reports a tidbit on the Chasing Amy DVD today:
We’ve been told by very good sources, that Buena Vista is negotiating with Criterion to obtain the rights to all of the supplemental materials used for the Chasing Amy laserdisc. Buena Vista reportedly wants to release the title as a Miramax Collectors Edition DVD. Let’s hope that they do a new anamorphic transfer while they’re at it. Whatever disc gets released, you can expect Alliance’s postponed Canadian version to be identical.

This is a good sign, and sort of what we’d expected. We’re afraid to say that Buena Vista is about as likely as Criterionto do a 16:9/anamorphic transfer (and chances of that are slim to none) so we’re not holding our breath. We’d assume thatVincent or Kevin would somehow have gotten involved if something like that was going down, too. All the same, it’ll beworth the dinero for the sweet extras — And let’s hope Kevin gets to make that documentary he mentioned, too.

  • What’s Linda Fiorentino gonna follow up Dogma with? Here’s something hot off the wire:
Linda Fiorentino and Ben Kingsley are in negotiations to star in a dramatization of painter Georgia O’Keeffe’s life titled “Till the End of Time.”

The film, which focuses on the passionate and stormy relationship between O’Keeffe (Fiorentino) and Alfred Steiglitz (Kingsley), is set to begin shooting in November in the U.S and Munich. Marek Kanievska (“Less Than Zero”) will direct.

An O’Keeffe project has been in development at Paramount Pictures for at least a decade, with such actors as Michelle Pfeiffer, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts and Richard Gere at various points and in various degrees involved.

  • There’s a George Carlin box set on the way, containing old and previously released material. It’s called “The Little David Years” and it’s set for an October 19th release. 7 discs, including six classic LP’s, [FM & AM, Class Clown, Occupation: Foole, On The Road, Toledo Window Box and An Evening With Wally Landow] plus a seventh disc simply reffered to as “Unreleased Material.” We’re big Carlin fans, and we’re sure this’ll be a way cool set.
  • Looks like Kevin will be in The Big Apple tomorrow again (or, most likely, he just hasn’t left yet) for a taping ofthe Sundance Channel show titled World Cinema Today. It’s happeneing at THE IMAGE GROUP/MTI STUDIOS, 885 Second Avenue @ 47th Street (Entrance on Northwest corner of 47th Street and Second Avenue) in NYC at 12:00 noon. We assume that it’seither limited or closed to the public, but if you’re in the area you may wanna swing on by and check into it.

  • Finally today, Jay & Silent Bob appear in the upcoming Mojo Mechanics, issue #3 (You can order it through Previews now) , from Syndicate Publishing. The guys behind it are big View Askew and News Askew fans, and sent us the first two books…Fun stuff. Definitely worth checking out, even if you’re just collecting books with Jay & Bob references.