Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 70mm Screening!

Sat, 06 Jun, 2026 at 02:00 pm UTC-07:00

3233 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, United States, Arizona 85716 | Tucson

The Loft Cinema
Publisher/HostThe Loft Cinema
Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 70mm Screening!
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Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience Steven Spielberg’s iconic 1977 sci-fi masterpiece Close Encounters of the Third Kind, presented on the big screen in its newly restored, director-approved version on gorgeous 70mm film! See it before Spielberg’s new alien adventure, Disclosure Day, opens nationwide on June 12 … and keep watching the skies!
One of the great works of American science fiction, Steven Spielberg’s visionary fourth feature (following the 1975 blockbuster Jaws) contemplates the possibility of life beyond Earth with a singular blend of awe, fear, and post-Watergate skepticism. Shot by Vilmos Zsigmond in Panavision anamorphic, the early passages unfold with a lived-in realism that makes the film’s escalating wonders feel entirely believable. When UFOs appear in Muncie, Indiana, electrician Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) becomes seized by visions he can’t explain, while a multinational team led by Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) works to decipher what the visitors may be saying, and what the government may be concealing. In classic Spielberg fashion, this blend of domestic drama and operatic spectacle—vast light formations, eerie silences, and John Williams’s now-iconic five-note motif—recasts paranoia as a pathway to revelation rather than a closed loop. Also starring Melinda Dillon, Terri Garr, and Bob Balaban. (Dir. by Steven Spielberg, 1977, USA, 137 mins., Rated PG)
Presented in 70mm! With a greater aspect ratio and higher resolution than 35mm celluloid, 70mm is sharper, richer and more immersive – the ultimate in film projection.
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3233 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, AZ, United States, Arizona 85716

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