Paris 36 (1977)

Director: Steven Spielberg  Starring: Richard Dreyfuss  Teri Garr  
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Publisher: Columbia/tri-Star
Format: DVD
UPC: 00043396309562
Buy.com Sku: 211314246
Item#: V2XCWQ
Category Keywords: Aliens  Blockbuster  Classic  Essential Cinema  Friends  Recommended  Science-Fiction  Theatrical Release  Thriller 
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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.


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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.

 
Entertainment Reviews
Paris 36 - DVD Review
By: Jason McKiernan - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews
Published on: 8/12/2009 4:48 AM
In 1930s Paris, political turmoil ran rampant. Warring factions led to social upheaval. Fascist landlords took over most neighborhood establishments. The working class was abandoned, left to toil miserably away at mere survival while their dreams faded quickly into an ever-expanding void. Paris 36 tells the story of a tight-knit group of idealists who use their dreams to aid their survival. They are lowly peasants in their new social order, but they strive with the ardent passion of true believers to overcome their status and attain their own version of a happy life....read the full review

 
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Release Information
Studio: Columbia/tri-Star
Release Date: 8/11/2009
Running Time: 135 minutes
Original Release Date: 1977
Catalog ID: 3095
UPC: 00043396309562
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video
Available Audio Tracks: English [CC]
Video: Color

 
Cast & Crew
Carl Weathers
Richard Dreyfuss
François Truffaut
Bob Balaban
Warren Kemmerling
Teri Garr
Melinda Dillon
Roberts Blossom
Pat McNamara
Lance Henriksen
Cary Guffey
Joe Alves - Production Designer
Steven Spielberg - Screenwriter
John Williams - Composer
Douglas Trumbull - Special Effects
Roy Arbogast - Special Effects
Vilmos Zsigmond - Director of Photography
Michael Kahn - Editor
Julia Phillips - Producer
Michael Phillips - Producer
Steven Spielberg - Director

 
Awards

Academy Awards (1977)
Winner, Best Sound Effects Editing
Vilmos Zsigmond, Winner, Best Cinematography

 
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

  
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