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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 |
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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
| 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 |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...The best -- the most elaborate -- 1950's[-style] science fiction movie ever made..." 11/17/1977 p.C19New 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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