Close Encounters of the Third Kind (30th Anniversary...

Buy This Item Close Encounters of the Third Kind (30th Anniversary... by Columbia Pictures  Available from Amazon  $28.99  on 11-25-2008     Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers--or anybody who's too young to remember <i>The Goodbye Girl</i>--may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in <i>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</i>. 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, <i>Close Encounters</i> 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, <i>Close Encounters</i> 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. <i>--Miles Bethany</i> Reader Reviews This movie is classic Science Fiction and one of my favorites. I highly recommend this movie to anyone liking Sci-Fi. One of Steven Spielberg's finest.

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