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- "INCIDENT AT ROSWELL"
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- review of Australia video release
- by Bill Chalker
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- The Viacom Films movie "ROSWELL" will be released in Australia on February
- 9th, 1995, as a video from First Release Home Entertainment. First Release
- have given it the name "Incident at Roswell".
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- I previewed the video on 10th January, and since then watched it a number of
- times. This review is intended for Australian audiences. No doubt many US
- Paranet users will have seen it in its Showtime cable channel showings.
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- Watching it I had one dissappointment. Namely that this film did not get a
- cinema release in either the US or Australia. I found it to be entertaining as a film and fascinating as an account of the Roswell saga. While there
- are the to be expected cinematic embellishments I was often intrigued by
- the many apparent accurate representations of key elements in the events
- that have also been the subject of 4 books, numerous research articles,
- documentary programmes and other media offerings.
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- The film serves its subject matter well, casting the whole affair in a Oliver
- Stone "JFK" style thriller. Fact is blended with a little speculation and
- some woven fictional elements.
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- The film, directed by Jeremy Kagan ("The Journey of Natty Gann",
- "The Chosen", "The Big Fix", "Heroes" and "The Sting II") and with
- co-executive producer Paul Davids, is based on the Roswell scenario described
- in the 1991 Avon book "UFO Crash at Roswell" by Kevin D. Randle and
- Donald R. Schmitt.
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- (Continued in Part 2)
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