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New 70mm Print!!Richard Dreyfuss stars as lineman Roy Neary, who experiences a close encounter of the first kind – witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. Meanwhile, government agents have close encounters of the second kind – discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in an unusual place. Roy and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind – contact.
With revolutionary special visual effects by Douglas Trumball (2001: A Space Odyssey), John Williams’ unforgettable score, and winning performances by Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, and François Truffaut, Close Encounters quickly joined director Steven Spielberg’s previous picture, the unprecedentedly successful Jaws, as one of the most popular films of all-time upon its release in late 1977.
The film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, winning for Best Cinematography (Vilmos Zsigmond).
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