Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Widescreen Edition) [VHS]
by Steven Spielberg

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Actor: Bob Balaban, Fran?ois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr
Director: Steven Spielberg
Writer: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Clark L. Paylow
Producer: Julia Phillips
Writer: Hal Barwood
Writer: Jerry Belson
Writer: John Hill
Writer: Matthew Robbins
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language); Hindi (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language); English (Unknown)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Letterboxed, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Running Time: 137 minutes
Release Date: 1998-05-12
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Columbia Pictures
Studio: Columbia Pictures

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Movie Review: First Class Fantasy!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Loved this film. I have the Collectors Edition and know nothing about Bluray, though it seems there are many reviews that talk more about Bluray and techy stuff than about the story. I don't have bluray, and my DVD is just fine! I very much enjoyed the 2nd disc Collectors Edition, and the discussions with Spielberg, the editors, artists, musicians, actors and others who made this such an enjoyable film. Mainly because it was just so much FUN to watch!

I give it more than 5 stars, as all the fantasy (fantastic) scenes were made without today's help from computers. Everything they did was done without computers and it still looked real. As much as I love Harry Potter, and I do, I doubt it could have been made or even attempted without computers.

I"m glad I bought the 2 disk version because the 2nd disk explained so much about the making of the film and the selection of the characters. The little boy in the film, now all grown up explains how such a little child was able to attain the expressions, the wide eyed looks and his adorable smile that a kitchen gone crazy might have frightened a child of his age (I think he was about 4). (He was my favorite character.)

Terry Garr was perfect in her role as the bewildered wife and Richard Dreyfus, perfect as the man whose mind had gone far off kilter so that he could follow a strange obsession placed there by the UFO, uh, characters. Great music by John Williams (per usual) and Francois Truffaut, an excellent French actor and director brought a kind of scientific reality to the whole fantasy. Can there be UFOS? I doubt it, but who knows?

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The Collector's Edition (CE) represents Steven Spielberg's third version of Close Encounters. Created in 1998, this sequence contains most of the judicial edits made for the Special Edition (SE) in 1980, speeding up Roy Neary's first contact with the UFOs and adding a scene of a discovery in the Mongolian desert. The Collector's Edition also reinstates the comical madness of Neary tearing up his own front yard, replaced in the SE by a scene where he breaks down in the shower; both scenes are restored in the CE. The SE's revised ending, featuring an extended scene inside the mothership is deleted.

Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers--or anybody who's too young to remember The Goodbye Girl--may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the "chosen") is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophizing about extraterrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner "call." Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary, Close Encounters comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed, but one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial. --Miles Bethany

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