- Our scoopers continue to revise the Nails cigarette box cutouts, so instead of replacing just one of the files, we’re now posting both versions. Choose your favorite in our Files Askew section.
- The Johnny Vaughn Film Show aired the Kevin interview, which was good, along with some short clips from the trailer this weekend. The panel that reviewed the film didn’t like it too much, yet they LOVED Mystery Men…So obviously the panel was on crack.
- In other UK news, Gail Porter’s Channel 5 Movie Show is on Wednesday, December 22nd at 7pm.
- Barry Norman reviewed Dogma on Thursday night, on his show Barry Norman’s Film Night, and found it highly enjoyable, although he also found it a bit long and messy.
- Dogma & View Askew stuff appears quite a bit in the latest issue of Premiere Magazine. Here’s a summary:
- 1) A quiz where one of the questions was: In Dogma, Linda Fiorentino plays a descendant of Christ who works where?
2) A big feature piece of Matt Damon
- 3) A small piece on Salma about her 3-week stint with Vancover’s finest
4) A piece about how Satan has been in all of these movies lately. It showed a picture of Jason Lee and says: An obnoxious demon (Jason Lee) and his hocky-stick-toting goons attempt to use two fallen angels (Matt Damon and Ben Affleck) to nullify the existence of God.
- In the January 2000 US Magazine, Dogma is mentioned in #42 in the Ninety-nine Stories of 1999:
- Clerks will be airing on Film Four in the UK this January:
Fri 14 Jan – 10.00 pm
Sat 1 Jan – 10.00 pm
Wired, outrageously confident and filthy, Dogma director Kevin Smith’s dazzling comic debut was shot for just $27,000. The action takes place almost entirely at the counter of a local grocer’s where Brian O’Halloran and best friend Jeff Anderson ruminate on life, love and blow-jobs. Their discourse on the service industries of the Death Star is a wonder, and a case of mistaken identity will leave you uncertain whether to laugh or cry.
- And last, but certainly not least, Dogma made Owen Gleiberman’s top ten best movies of 1999 list in Entertainment Weekly:
2. Topsy-Turvey
3. Boys Don’t Cry
4. Run Lola Run
5. Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred. A. Leuchter, Jr.
6. Go
7. Being John Malkovich
8. Election
9. The Blair Witch Project
10. Dogma: Its only sin is its cinematography. It took a professional rascal like Kevin Smith, who writes naughty jokes with evangelical fervor, to make a heavenly religious movie rooted in the imperfections of earth. The tale of two bad-boy angels who try to win their way back into God’s good graces, “Dogma†is as scrappy (and funny) as an underground comic book, yet it so believes in everything it’s showing you–a world of celestial beings hooked on Catholic debate–that it makes you a believer too.
A very cool list, as well. Run Lola Run was definitely one of the coolest of this past year, and ya gotta love Malkovich if even just for the originality. Looking through that list, 1999 really was an interesting and fun year at the movies.
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