Close Encounters of the Third Kind
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Alien Abduction Stars in the Movie The Fourth Kind...the silliest. (See pictures of movie flying saucers.) Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind popularized astronomer J. Allen Hynek's classification of alien encounters. The third kind was contact. The fourth is abduction. In this article: Art Bell, Milla Jovovich, The Fifth Element, Direct evidence, J. Allen Hynek, The Men Who Stare at Goats, and Roland Emmerich |
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Washington Times | November 15, 2009
VAULTS: Three faces of cinematography
...Friend's Wedding." He died two years ago at age 74. Mr. Zsigmond won the Academy Award for best cinematography of 1977 for Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," a production that recruited several other stellar lighting...
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scotsman.com - Entertainment | November 05, 2009
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...site. To read this article in full you must be registered with the site. In 1977, Steven Spielberg introduced audiences to Close Encounters Of The Third Kind. The film took its title from a scale devoted to alien encounters: the third...
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Life123 | October 21, 2009
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...His Big Break He Finally Got to Have Fun After the success of Jaws, Spielberg was given license to do as he pleased, so he made Close Encounters of the Third Kind, which was also a smash hit. Aside from one failure, the comedy 1941,...
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The Deadbolt | October 25, 2009
The Fourth Kind and Our Fascination with Aliens
...of alien contact of the fourth kind. In 1977, director Stephen Spielberg introduced moviegoers to the meaning of a third kind encounter, contact with aliens, in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Now Universal and director Olatunde...
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Independent.co.uk - Film & TV | October 10, 2009
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...again. 'Night Skies' Hollywood wizard Steven Spielberg conjured this sci-fi horror up in the late 1970s as a sequel to 1977's Close Encounters of the Third Kind, only this time the aliens were not so friendly. Instead, the little...
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Boing Boing | November 18, 2009
Jacques Vallee on Boing Boing
...from outer space." Whenever I see the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind, I get a kick out of Francois Truffaut's character Claude Lacombe insisting that the UFO phenomenon "is an event sociologique!" That is exactly something...
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...you on your seat, eager for more. A.I.: Spielberg took the helm of this film following the death of legendary director Stanley Kubrick, who had intended for Spielberg to be involved in its production. This futuristic story about a robot...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg. The film stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban and Cary Guffey. It tells the story of Roy Neary, an Indiana electrical lineman, whose life changes after he has an encounter with an unidentified flying object. However, the United States government is also aware of the UFOs as is a team of international scientific researchers.
Close Encounters was a long-cherished project for Spielberg. In late 1973, he developed a deal with Columbia Pictures for a science fiction film. Paul Schrader, John Hill, David Giler, Hal Barwood, Matthew Robbins and Jerry Belson contributed with script writing work, alongside Spielberg. In the end Spielberg was given solo writing credit.
Filming began in May 1976. Douglas Trumbull served as the visual effects supervisor, while Carlo Rambaldi designed the aliens. Close Encounters was released in November 1977 and was a critical and financial success. The film was reissued in 1980 as Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Special Edition, Spielberg's "director's cut" of the film with additional scenes. The film received numerous awards and nominations at the 50th Academy Awards, 32nd British Academy Film Awards, the Saturn Awards and has been widely acclaimed by the American Film Institute. In December 2007 the film was named to the National Film Registry.
- Name:
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- November 16, 1977
- Directed By:
- Steven Spielberg
- Produced by:
- Written By:
- Steven Spielberg
- Editor:
- Michael Kahn
- Cinematography:
- Vilmos Zsigmond
- Music By:
- John Williams
- Distributed By:
- Columbia Pictures
- Length:
- 132 minutes
- Language:
- English
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