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blurb-heavy 3m 43s trailer for Merhige’s first film, BEGOTTEN. The package of supplements is rounded off with thumbnail bios and filmographies of the direc­ tor and his leading men, as well as some typically overreaching production notes (“According to John Malkovich, our fascination with vampires plays into fear of the dark”). A pleasant but lackluster au­
dio commentary is provided by director Merhige, who vacillates between precious academic phraseology and bland superla­ tives for his cast. While many of Merhige’s claims are arguable (“You just feel that there is this seamless reality created”), more troublesome is that he elevates his mimicry of setups from the original NOSFERATU to the level
of high art (“This really was bom out of looking at the film many, many times”). How scary is that? —Richard Harland Smith
SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL
2000, Synapse Films #SFD0013, DD-2.0/MA/+, $29.95, 81m 11s, DVD-1
A comic documentary, SIX
DAYS IN ROSWELL is a hu­ morous exploration of the very serious byzantine American preoccupation with unortho­ dox religious experiences, ab­ ductions and alien visitations by the same filmmakers who made the documentary TREKKIES (1997). Using the annual Fourth of July celebrations commemorating the alleged UFO crash at Roswell, New
Mexico, as the social back­ ground, the film records the ad­ ventures of Richard Kornfeld, a Minnesotan who goes to Roswell with the expressed wish to be abducted by aliens. During the six days he spends in Roswell, Rich meets and interacts with all sorts of eccentrics, from alleged abductees to William “Mac” Brazel impersonators to ballad- eers singing about the gov­ ernment’s CJFO crash cover-up, and attends various seminars where he meets such well- known CJFOlogists as Whitley Strieber, Budd Hopkins, Kevin D. Randle and Stanton T. Fried­ man, among others. Toward the end of his stay, Rich even man­ ages to attend the world premiere of ROSWELL: THE MUSICAL. We hope we’re not spoiling anything
Richard Kornfeld seems to be interviewing the wrong convention guest in Synapse Films’ comic documentary, SIX DAYS IN ROSWELL.
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