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With ‘Dogma’s’ re-release, director Kevin Smith’s prayers for his cult basic have been answered
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With ‘Dogma’s’ re-release, director Kevin Smith’s prayers for his cult basic have been answered

Last updated: June 6, 2025 8:09 pm
Editorial Board Published June 6, 2025
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For greater than 1 / 4 century, director Kevin Smith has tried to resurrect “Dogma,” his non secular satire about two fallen angels seeking to get again into heaven. Lately, his prayers for the 1999 comedy have been lastly answered.

On Thursday, the film received a theatrical re-release throughout 1,500 AMC Theatres screens in honor of its twenty fifth anniversary. Technically, the milestone was final 12 months. However the second coming of a film that introduced us certainly one of Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s finest on-screen collaborations and an A-list comedic ensemble — together with George Carlin, Chris Rock, Janeane Garofalo and Alan Rickman — to not point out the meme-worthy, winking “Buddy Christ,” warrants a long-awaited hallelujah.

“It’s got a good legacy to it,” Smith stated of the movie. “It’s become the ‘umbrella film’ for me. The umbrella film is the movie that no matter what you do, even if you make s— that people don’t like, they won’t crucify you — pun intended — because you made a movie that they like.”

Kevin Smith, in a purple blazer and backwards cap, leans against a wall.

“To me, it plays like a kid really trying to celebrate his faith after having grown up in a church where every Sunday, everyone seemed to be mourning it. … It’s a love letter to spirituality,” Kevin Smith stated about “Dogma.”

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Although the glowing interval of Smith’s profession is essentially outlined by 1994’s “Clerks” and 1997’s “Chasing Amy,” his fourth movie, “Dogma,” steeped in irreverence and hilarity centered round his former Catholic religion, continues to be thought of certainly one of his classics. The film debuted at Cannes in 1999. He returned to the famend movie competition final month, when the comedy performed within the Cannes Classics part, simply days earlier than sitting down with The Occasions on digital camera to debate “Dogma’s” whirlwind re-release. Within the interview, the director, author and actor recounts how the film was saved by filmmaker and actor Alessandra Williams, who raised cash to purchase the movie from Miramax earlier this 12 months, many years after it was acquired and shelved by disgraced producer Harvey Weinstein. Weinstein bought Smith’s movie, together with a trove of others, to Williams to assist pay for his authorized protection, Smith stated.

In collaboration with Iconic Occasions, the movie has since been remastered in 4K for its screening tour and is being proven in choose AMC theaters. Smith is well-seasoned when it involves touring his previous movies, pairing the screenings with Q&As and stand-up performances all through the stay displays. It took little time for him to guide a sold-out, 20-city tour geared toward getting followers fired as much as come see “Dogma” as soon as once more below a lot totally different (and safer) circumstances.

“Even with getting people aware of the movie this time around, it’s not as fraught with peril as it was back in the day,” Smith stated, referring to the demise threats, protests and 400,000 items of hate mail he stated the film garnered from Christian extremists who denounced what they believed to be the movie’s mockery of their religion.

“You Jews better take that money you stole from us and start investing in flak jackets,” Smith stated whereas closing his eyes and reciting one of many letters from reminiscence. “We’re coming because we’re coming in there with shotguns. Signed, Your Brothers in Christ.”

Although the controversy of the movie has undoubtedly waned, the inspiration behind the movie stays steadfast, Smith stated. “To me, it plays like a kid really trying to celebrate his faith after having grown up in a church where every Sunday, everyone seemed to be mourning it. So I think [people hopefully see it] for what it is. It’s a love letter to spirituality.”

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