Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977) Retrospective/Review - Spielberg Sci-Fi, Part 1

In 1977, in the wake of Star Wars, audiences were given another dose of the sci-fi fantastical in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Audiences were no strangers to aliens and flying saucers in movies, but that kind of subject matter was usually in the domain of cheap B-movies from a bygone era. At the tail end of such a cynical decade of cinema, it must have been utterly dazzling to be met with that familiar iconography with more naturalism, spectacle and optimism than ever before.

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00:00 Intro
01:32 Origins and Development
06:28 Casting
10:48 Production
17:55 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
25:39 Release and Reception
26:00 Special Edition and Director's Cut
27:57 Legacy
29:33 From Close Encounters to E.T
33:34 Outro

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