Director Steven Spielberg’s obsession with the possible existence of aliens from outer space reached ridiculous heights in his 1977 movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Most of the two hour-plus motion picture is very slow paced, and even just down right boring. Spielberg’s screenplay tells the story of a group of people trying to contact aliens, and one of them succeeds, and has a “sunburn” to prove it.
That would be the star of the show, Richard Dreyfuss. He became a superstar with this film, and in “The Goodbye Girl,” also released in 1977, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar. (He did gain initial prominence in Spielberg’s “Jaws” in 1975.) Co-stars include Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Roberts Blossom, Philip Dodds, Cary Guffy, Lance Henriksen, George DiCenzo, Gene Dynarski, Josef Sommer, David Abraham Cheulkar, and Carl Weather as the military police.
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was a huge smash hit at the box office for EMI Pictures and Columbia Pictures. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning two for Best Cinematography and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing. John Williams was also nominated for an Oscar for his soundtrack composition with its easily recognizable instrumental theme music. Williams won two Grammys for his efforts.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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My Review
Director Steven Spielberg’s obsession with the possible existence of aliens from outer space reached ridiculous heights in his 1977 movie “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” Most of the two hour-plus motion picture is very slow paced, and even just down right boring. Spielberg’s screenplay tells the story of a group of people trying to contact aliens, and one of them succeeds, and has a “sunburn” to prove it.
That would be the star of the show, Richard Dreyfuss. He became a superstar with this film, and in “The Goodbye Girl,” also released in 1977, for which he won the Best Actor Oscar. (He did gain initial prominence in Spielberg’s “Jaws” in 1975.) Co-stars include Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Roberts Blossom, Philip Dodds, Cary Guffy, Lance Henriksen, George DiCenzo, Gene Dynarski, Josef Sommer, David Abraham Cheulkar, and Carl Weather as the military police.
“Close Encounters of the Third Kind” was a huge smash hit at the box office for EMI Pictures and Columbia Pictures. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, winning two for Best Cinematography and a Special Achievement Academy Award for Sound Effects Editing. John Williams was also nominated for an Oscar for his soundtrack composition with its easily recognizable instrumental theme music. Williams won two Grammys for his efforts.