Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Collectors Edition) (1977)

Director: Steven Spielberg  Starring: Richard Dreyfuss  Teri Garr  
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Product Summary
Publisher: Columbia Tri-Star
Format: DVD
UPC: 00043396094307
Buy.com Sku: 40170699
Item#: VCHX6R
Category Keywords: Aliens  Blockbuster  Classic  Essential Cinema  Friends  Recommended  Science-Fiction  Theatrical Release  Thriller 
Rating: 
 
We are not alone.
 
 
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.35:1, Dolby Digital Stereo
 
Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment proudly presents the definitive director's cut of Steven Spielberg's masterpiece. "Literate in plotting and dazzling in execution", Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is "an absolute stunner" (Variety). Steven Spielberg's enduring achievement can be seen and enjoyed as he has always intended in this director's cut, remastered from the original film elements. "Of all the UFO films ever made this is the most edifying...a feast for the eyes! The appeal of this film was enormous and still is" (The Motion Picture Guide).
 
"One of the most spectacular movies ever made."  Gene Shalit NBC-TV
"Spectacular! Brilliant! Close Encounters deserves an historic place in movie entertainment."  Jack Kroll, Newsweek

 


Editor's Note

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 François Truffaut costars as Claude Lacombe, one of the organizers of the project. Spielberg hoped to follow up the huge success of JAWS with a low-budget film that would be an easy shoot, but, thanks in part to the complicated special effects, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS quickly snowballed into being an expensive endeavor but a commercial and artistic success. No one who has seen the film has ever looked at a plate of mashed potatotes the same way again.


Plot Summary

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND is director Steven Spielberg's mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man. Richard Dreyfuss is Roy Neary, a man who, after encountering an unexplainable phenomenon one night, becomes obsessed with discovering more, to the dismay of his wife and family. Legendary French filmmaker François Truffaut plays the head of a government agency hoping to attract the aliens to an isolated mountaintop in this unforgettable sci-fi thriller.

 
Features
Scene Selection
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai
Remastered In High Definition
Interactive Menus
Widescreen Version
Digitally Mastered Audio & Anamorphic Video
Audio: English 5.1 DTS And Dolby Digital, 2-Channel Dolby Surround; French, Spanish
 
Technical Info

Release Information
Studio: Columbia Tri-Star
Release Date: 7/26/2005
Running Time: 137 minutes
Original Release Date: 1977
Catalog ID: 09430
UPC: 00043396094307
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed
Available Subtitles: English, French, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai, Chinese
Video: Color

Aspect Ratio
2.35:1

 
Cast & Crew
Francois Truffaut
Melinda Dillon
Richard Dreyfuss
Teri Garr
Steven Spielberg - Director
John Williams - Musical Score

 
Awards

Oscar (1978)
Vilmos Zsigmond, Winner, Best Cinematography
   Steven Spielberg, Nominee, Best Director

British Academy Awards (1978)
Joe Alves, Winner, Best Production Design/ Art Direction

Grammy (1979)
John Williams, Winner, Best Original Score

 
Professional Reviews
New York Times
"...The best -- the most elaborate -- 1950's[-style] science fiction movie ever made..." 11/17/1977 p.C19

New York Times
Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1977" 12/25/1977 p.II:1

Entertainment Weekly
"...The only feature to date for which Spielberg has taken sole writing credit, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS is one of his most personal works....The story's primal appeal endures..." 06/08/2001 p.53

Total Film
"...An undisputed classic....It's Richard Dreyfuss's finest hour..." 08/01/2000 p.102

Uncut
"Where the film scores is in its portrayal of an ordinary man, whose brush with the unknown changes his life..." 07/01/2001 p.140

Empire
5 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t remains awe-inspiring stuff that has held up better than the other big science-fiction film of 1977." 01/01/2008 p.201

Wall Street Journal
"Steven Spielberg's shining, glowing masterpiece will never wear out its welcome." 11/06/2009

Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide 9 of 10
Superb, intelligent sci-fi (written by Spielberg)... Dreyfuss is perfect Everyman struggling with frustrating enigma that finally becomes clear. Powerhouse special effects throughout, plus John Williams' evocative score... - Leonard Maltin
 

  
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