Close Encounters of the Third Kind. (1977)
Written and Directed by Stephen Spielberg.
With Richard Dreyfuss, Francoise Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey.
http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0075860
A series of UFOs takes Indiana by surprise, and a workman is led by intuition and detection to the landing site, which has been concealed from the public.
What the "Halliwell's film guide" calls a "benevolent mysticism" filled a need at the time it was released, at the height of a sort of "UFO fever". This was the time of the Erik Von Danikan's "Chariots of the Gods" books, the USAF project Blue Book and the start of mass interest in Roswell.
The technical effects are masterly, though their exposure is over-prolonged. In comparison to "It came from Outer Space" (1955), which was made on a tiny budget, it has less suspense, less plot and much more padding. Much of the dialogue is inaudible. However, Close Encounters had enormous box-office success and put Spielberg on the road to his own success.
Two versions of this film exist. I saw the original version, and I have never been bothered to watch the 1980 "special edition". That version pared down the endless idiotic middle section, in which the Dreyfuss character spends hours making a huge mud-pie in his lounge, while the neighbours look on bemused; and it instead extended the final scenes with the spaceship and the aliens, including some new interiors.
"One is inclined to feel that with all the money at his disposal, Spielberg might have got it right the first time" Derek Malcolm 'The Guardian'.
The cost of the film was estimated at 20,000,000 US Dollars. At the time it used the largest film set in history, the inside of an old dirigible hanger.
"It somehow combines Disney and 1950's SF and junk food into the most persuasive (if arrested) version of the American dream yet" Time Out.
Academy Award for Photography- Vilmos Zsigmond.
Written and Directed by Stephen Spielberg.
With Richard Dreyfuss, Francoise Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey.
http://uk.imdb.com/Title?0075860
A series of UFOs takes Indiana by surprise, and a workman is led by intuition and detection to the landing site, which has been concealed from the public.
What the "Halliwell's film guide" calls a "benevolent mysticism" filled a need at the time it was released, at the height of a sort of "UFO fever". This was the time of the Erik Von Danikan's "Chariots of the Gods" books, the USAF project Blue Book and the start of mass interest in Roswell.
The technical effects are masterly, though their exposure is over-prolonged. In comparison to "It came from Outer Space" (1955), which was made on a tiny budget, it has less suspense, less plot and much more padding. Much of the dialogue is inaudible. However, Close Encounters had enormous box-office success and put Spielberg on the road to his own success.
Two versions of this film exist. I saw the original version, and I have never been bothered to watch the 1980 "special edition". That version pared down the endless idiotic middle section, in which the Dreyfuss character spends hours making a huge mud-pie in his lounge, while the neighbours look on bemused; and it instead extended the final scenes with the spaceship and the aliens, including some new interiors.
"One is inclined to feel that with all the money at his disposal, Spielberg might have got it right the first time" Derek Malcolm 'The Guardian'.
The cost of the film was estimated at 20,000,000 US Dollars. At the time it used the largest film set in history, the inside of an old dirigible hanger.
"It somehow combines Disney and 1950's SF and junk food into the most persuasive (if arrested) version of the American dream yet" Time Out.
Academy Award for Photography- Vilmos Zsigmond.
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