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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 - 135 min. - Color
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rated G
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND is Steven Spielberg's extraordinary film about a man named Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) who becomes obsessed with meeting extraterrestrials after encountering a UFO on an abandoned road one night. Against the wishes of his wife (Teri Garr) and children, Neary, along with another witness to the sighting (Melinda Dillon), travels to a mysterious mountain where the government has built a landing strip hoping to attract the aliens. Director Fran

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses an unidentified flying object, and even has a "sunburn" from its bright lights to prove it. Neary's wife and children are at first skeptical, then concerned, and eventually fearful, as Roy refuses to accept a "logical" explanation for what he saw and is prepared to give up his job, his home, and his family to pursue the "truth" about UFOs. Neary's obsession eventually puts him in contact with others who've had close encounters with alien spacecraft, including Jillian (Melinda Dillon), a single mother whose son disappeared during her UFO experience, and Claude Lacombe (celebrated French filmmaker Francois Truffaut), a French researcher who believes that we can use a musical language to communicate with alien visitors. Lacombe's theory is put to the test when a band of government researchers and underground UFO enthusiasts (including Neary) join for an exchange with alien visitors near Devil's Tower, Wyoming. In 1980, a "Special Edition" was released. While its primary selling point was the addition of scenes inside the alien spaceship, Spielberg claimed that he also cleaned up some choppy editing in the second act. --- Mark Deming

Several years in the making and, like Jaws, millions over budget, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) became Steven Spielberg's second blockbuster, confirming his skills at creating visually spectacular popular entertainment. Blending his reverence for the power of movies with a science fiction UFO tale, Spielberg turns an average man's "close encounter" with an extra-terrestrial into an uplifting excursion into fantastic sights. Unlike in Cold War 1950s UFO stories that posit a threat from outside, Spielberg turns the unknown from an initially menacing force that imperils normality into a universal ambassador of transcendent goodwill, providing an escapist note of cinematic hope during the late '70s cultural malaise. Still, 2001 F/X master Douglas Trumbull's pre-digital age visual effects were an even stronger draw, as Close Encounters moves from initial appearances of space pod lights towards the climactic appearance of the enormous and stunningly rendered "mother ship." Praised for Spielberg and company's dazzling craft, amid reservations over the cardboard characters, Close Encounters became one of the biggest hits of the 1970s, helping financially teetering Columbia Pictures and strengthening the late '70s turn towards youth-oriented blockbusters. Beginning with a 1980 "Special Edition," Spielberg re-edited Close Encounters several times after 1977. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Richard Dreyfuss - Roy Neary
Francois Truffaut - Claude Lacombe
Teri Garr - Ronnie Neary
Melinda Dillon - Jillian Guiler
Cary Guffey - Barry Guiler
Bob Balaban - David Laughlin
J. Patrick McNamara - Project leader
Warren Kemmerling - Wild Bill
Roberts Blossom - Farmer
Philip Dodds - Jean Claude
Shawn Bishop - Brad Neary
Adrienne Campbell - Silvia Neary
Justin Dreyfuss - Toby Neary
Merrill Connally - Team Leader
George DiCenzo - Major Benchley
James Keane - Radio Telescope Team
Dennis McMullen - Radio Telescope Team
Alexander Lockwood - Implantee
John Dennis Johnston - Special Forces
Bill Thurman - Air Traffic
Galen Thompson - Special Forces
Carl Weathers - M.P.
F.J. O'Neil - ARP Project Member
Gene Rader - Hawker
Josef Sommer - Larry Butler
Matthew Robbins - Returnee #3 Flt. 19
Cy Young - Radio Telescope Team
Eumenio Blanco - Federale
Hal Barwood - Returnee #2 Flt. 19
Robert Broyles - Dirty Tricks #3
Luis Contreras - Federale
David Anderson - Air Traffic Controller
Norman Bartold - Ohio Tolls
Keith Atkinson - Dirty Tricks #2
Basil Hoffman
Lance Henriksen - Robert
Chuy Franco - Federale
Randy Herman - Returnee #1 Flt. 19
Amy Douglass - Implantee
Gene Dynarski - Ike
Jon Ewing - Dirty Tricks #1
Matt Emery - Special Leader

Crew for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg - Director / Screenwriter
Jim Bloom - Producer
Julia Phillips - Producer
Michael Phillips - Producer
John A. Alonzo - Cinematographer
William A. Fraker - Cinematographer
Don Jarel - Cinematographer
Laszlo Kovacs - Cinematographer
Dennis Muren - Cinematographer
Dave Stewart - Cinematographer
Douglas Trumbull - Cinematographer / Special Effects
Richard Yuricich - Cinematographer / Special Effects
Vilmos Zsigmond - Cinematographer
John Williams - Composer (Music Score)
Michael Kahn - Editor
Joe Alves - Production Designer
John Loggia - Production Designer
Daniel Lomino - Art Director
Phillip Abramson - Set Designer
Jim Linn - Costume Designer
Roy Arbogast - Special Effects
Gregory Jein - Special Effects
Douglas Slocombe - Special Effects
Matthew Yuricich - Special Effects
Chuck Myers - First Assistant Director
Steven Poster - Camera Operator
Gene S. Cantamessa - Sound/Sound Designer
Robert Glass - Sound/Sound Designer
Buzz Knudson - Sound/Sound Designer
Don MacDougall - Sound/Sound Designer
Buddy Joe Hooker - Stunts Coordinator

Awards for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Best Art Direction (nom) Joe Alves 1977 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Phillip Abramson 1977 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Daniel Lomino 1977 Academy
Best Cinematography (win) Vilmos Zsigmond 1977 Academy
Best Director (nom) Steven Spielberg 1977 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Michael Kahn 1977 Academy
Best Score (nom) John Williams 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Robert Knudson 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Don MacDougall 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Gene S. Cantamessa 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Robert Glass 1977 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Melinda Dillon 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Gregory Jein 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Richard Yuricich 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Matthew Yuricich 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Douglas Trumbull 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Roy Arbogast 1977 Academy
Special Achievement (win) Warner, Frank E. 1977 Academy
Best Director (nom) Steven Spielberg 1977 Directors Guild of America
10 Best Films 1977 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Direction Steven Spielberg 1977 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Steven Spielberg 1977 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Art Direction (win) Joe Alves 1978 British Academy Awards
Best Film Steven Spielberg 1978 British Academy Awards
100 Greatest American Movies (win) 1998 American Film Institute

Feature Details

Title: Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Feature Release Date: 1977
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rating: G
Color: Color
Runtime: 135 Minutes
Chapters: 43
Picture: Letterboxed
Ratio: 2.35:1
Playback Format: CLV

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LD Release Date: 18 Dec 1991
Catalog Number: CC1242L
UPC: 715515000901
Manufacturer: Pioneer USA
Collection: Criterion Collection
Publisher: Criterion

Diameter: 12"
Sides: 3
Cover: Jacket
Spoken Language: English
Country: USA
Video Format: NTSC

Model: CC1242L
Shipping Weight: 2 lbs
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Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut and Teri Garr in...

Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Criterion Collection

( Catalog Number CC1242L )
(2.35:1) (3 Sides) (CLV) (NTSC)

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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 - 135 min. - Color
Genre: Sci-Fi
Rated G
Country: USA

LaserDisc Movie Storyline:
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND is Steven Spielberg's extraordinary film about a man named Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) who becomes obsessed with meeting extraterrestrials after encountering a UFO on an abandoned road one night. Against the wishes of his wife (Teri Garr) and children, Neary, along with another witness to the sighting (Melinda Dillon), travels to a mysterious mountain where the government has built a landing strip hoping to attract the aliens. Director Fran

LaserDisc Movie Review:
Steven Spielberg followed Jaws (1975), his first major box-office success, with this epic science fiction adventure about a disparate group of people who attempt to contact alien intelligence. Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) is an electrical lineman who, while sent out on emergency repairs, witnesses an unidentified flying object, and even has a "sunburn" from its bright lights to prove it. Neary's wife and children are at first skeptical, then concerned, and eventually fearful, as Roy refuses to accept a "logical" explanation for what he saw and is prepared to give up his job, his home, and his family to pursue the "truth" about UFOs. Neary's obsession eventually puts him in contact with others who've had close encounters with alien spacecraft, including Jillian (Melinda Dillon), a single mother whose son disappeared during her UFO experience, and Claude Lacombe (celebrated French filmmaker Francois Truffaut), a French researcher who believes that we can use a musical language to communicate with alien visitors. Lacombe's theory is put to the test when a band of government researchers and underground UFO enthusiasts (including Neary) join for an exchange with alien visitors near Devil's Tower, Wyoming. In 1980, a "Special Edition" was released. While its primary selling point was the addition of scenes inside the alien spaceship, Spielberg claimed that he also cleaned up some choppy editing in the second act. --- Mark Deming

Several years in the making and, like Jaws, millions over budget, Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) became Steven Spielberg's second blockbuster, confirming his skills at creating visually spectacular popular entertainment. Blending his reverence for the power of movies with a science fiction UFO tale, Spielberg turns an average man's "close encounter" with an extra-terrestrial into an uplifting excursion into fantastic sights. Unlike in Cold War 1950s UFO stories that posit a threat from outside, Spielberg turns the unknown from an initially menacing force that imperils normality into a universal ambassador of transcendent goodwill, providing an escapist note of cinematic hope during the late '70s cultural malaise. Still, 2001 F/X master Douglas Trumbull's pre-digital age visual effects were an even stronger draw, as Close Encounters moves from initial appearances of space pod lights towards the climactic appearance of the enormous and stunningly rendered "mother ship." Praised for Spielberg and company's dazzling craft, amid reservations over the cardboard characters, Close Encounters became one of the biggest hits of the 1970s, helping financially teetering Columbia Pictures and strengthening the late '70s turn towards youth-oriented blockbusters. Beginning with a 1980 "Special Edition," Spielberg re-edited Close Encounters several times after 1977. --- Lucia Bozzola

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Cast for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Richard Dreyfuss - Roy Neary
Francois Truffaut - Claude Lacombe
Teri Garr - Ronnie Neary
Melinda Dillon - Jillian Guiler
Cary Guffey - Barry Guiler
Bob Balaban - David Laughlin
J. Patrick McNamara - Project leader
Warren Kemmerling - Wild Bill
Roberts Blossom - Farmer
Philip Dodds - Jean Claude
Shawn Bishop - Brad Neary
Adrienne Campbell - Silvia Neary
Justin Dreyfuss - Toby Neary
Merrill Connally - Team Leader
George DiCenzo - Major Benchley
James Keane - Radio Telescope Team
Dennis McMullen - Radio Telescope Team
Alexander Lockwood - Implantee
John Dennis Johnston - Special Forces
Bill Thurman - Air Traffic
Galen Thompson - Special Forces
Carl Weathers - M.P.
F.J. O'Neil - ARP Project Member
Gene Rader - Hawker
Josef Sommer - Larry Butler
Matthew Robbins - Returnee #3 Flt. 19
Cy Young - Radio Telescope Team
Eumenio Blanco - Federale
Hal Barwood - Returnee #2 Flt. 19
Robert Broyles - Dirty Tricks #3
Luis Contreras - Federale
David Anderson - Air Traffic Controller
Norman Bartold - Ohio Tolls
Keith Atkinson - Dirty Tricks #2
Basil Hoffman
Lance Henriksen - Robert
Chuy Franco - Federale
Randy Herman - Returnee #1 Flt. 19
Amy Douglass - Implantee
Gene Dynarski - Ike
Jon Ewing - Dirty Tricks #1
Matt Emery - Special Leader

Crew for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Steven Spielberg - Director / Screenwriter
Jim Bloom - Producer
Julia Phillips - Producer
Michael Phillips - Producer
John A. Alonzo - Cinematographer
William A. Fraker - Cinematographer
Don Jarel - Cinematographer
Laszlo Kovacs - Cinematographer
Dennis Muren - Cinematographer
Dave Stewart - Cinematographer
Douglas Trumbull - Cinematographer / Special Effects
Richard Yuricich - Cinematographer / Special Effects
Vilmos Zsigmond - Cinematographer
John Williams - Composer (Music Score)
Michael Kahn - Editor
Joe Alves - Production Designer
John Loggia - Production Designer
Daniel Lomino - Art Director
Phillip Abramson - Set Designer
Jim Linn - Costume Designer
Roy Arbogast - Special Effects
Gregory Jein - Special Effects
Douglas Slocombe - Special Effects
Matthew Yuricich - Special Effects
Chuck Myers - First Assistant Director
Steven Poster - Camera Operator
Gene S. Cantamessa - Sound/Sound Designer
Robert Glass - Sound/Sound Designer
Buzz Knudson - Sound/Sound Designer
Don MacDougall - Sound/Sound Designer
Buddy Joe Hooker - Stunts Coordinator

Awards for Close Encounters of the Third Kind

Best Art Direction (nom) Joe Alves 1977 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Phillip Abramson 1977 Academy
Best Art Direction (nom) Daniel Lomino 1977 Academy
Best Cinematography (win) Vilmos Zsigmond 1977 Academy
Best Director (nom) Steven Spielberg 1977 Academy
Best Editing (nom) Michael Kahn 1977 Academy
Best Score (nom) John Williams 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Robert Knudson 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Don MacDougall 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Gene S. Cantamessa 1977 Academy
Best Sound (nom) Robert Glass 1977 Academy
Best Supporting Actress (nom) Melinda Dillon 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Gregory Jein 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Richard Yuricich 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Matthew Yuricich 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Douglas Trumbull 1977 Academy
Best Visual Effects (nom) Roy Arbogast 1977 Academy
Special Achievement (win) Warner, Frank E. 1977 Academy
Best Director (nom) Steven Spielberg 1977 Directors Guild of America
10 Best Films 1977 National Board of Review of Motion Pict
Best Direction Steven Spielberg 1977 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Film Steven Spielberg 1977 New York Film Critics Circle
Best Art Direction (win) Joe Alves 1978 British Academy Awards
Best Film Steven Spielberg 1978 British Academy Awards
100 Greatest American Movies (win) 1998 American Film Institute

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