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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (The Collector's Edition)
starring: Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Bob Balaban
directed by: Steven Spielberg

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Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780800198398
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Special Edition, THX, NTSC
ISBN: 0800198395
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: May 12, 1998
Running Time: 137 minutes
Sales Rank: 5373
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1977

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Description:
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.

Amazon.com:
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

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- Re-Introduce a "classic" comfort movie
This film is timeless--Still makes you wonder, hope. Shared as a adult with my adult children. Knew that it was a valued piece to their library of DVDs'

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- Spielberg's Masterpiece! Great DVD Too!
The sign of a classic movie is how well it ages and "Close Encounters ..." seems to get better over the years and the more times you watch it. This film has many signs to show that it was influenced by Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" from the opening sequence to the massive role of music to the whole feel of the movie and yet Spielberg did not simply copy Kubrick's formula but instead took the genre on to another level putting his own stamp on it. Franchises like The "X-Files" and many others have at least been influenced themselves by this film and the special effects are spectacular for the time given there was little if any CGI to the scale of today and yet the visual effects hold up very well even by today's standards.

This one-disc Collector's Edition is also a real treat for fans as it has been restored very, very well for an excellent picture and sound quality. I watched ... Read More

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- From the man who invented the summer blockbuster
Strange events around the world foreshadow the first contact between mankind and aliens. Several people who encounter UFOs are psychically imprinted with an impulse to converge on the meeting area, including a worker for the phone company (Richard Dreyfuss) and a mother (Melinda Dillon) searching for her abducted son (Cary Guffey).

I'm not sure which of the three (at least) versions of this film I saw. I didn't get to see the interior of the ship at the end, but I did see the scene in which Dreyfuss tears up his yard to construct a replica of the mountain in his visions; that may provide a clue to those who are more knowledge about this movie than I. There may be a superior version of this film out there, but I enjoyed this one quite a bit. No one can convey that sense of wonder better than Stephen Spielberg at his best. The story structure is very effective, alternating between the intellectually stimulating ... Read More

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- This means something.
One thing it might mean is that this is one of the most unique science fiction films ever made. I recently watched it with my wife (who very rarely enjoys any kind of sci-fi), a friend, and that friend's wife (who simply detests all sci-fi). Yet everyone enjoyed it. (My friend and I had already seen it.)

"This means something," is a recurring line throughout CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND, similar to "I've got a bad feeling about this," in the STAR WARS films. So, the dialogue is not the best ever written. But CE3K contains a human element interwoven throughout both the character development as well as the plot development that you're unlikely to find any other science fiction film, and certain not to find in any other UFO film.

Often great movies get cloned and copied, and fans of the original get annoyed. Well, I don't think CE3K ever got cloned or copied and that's what annoys me. The movie ... Read More

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