Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Spielberg, 1977):
Islington Screen on Green, 10.30pm
Those wonderful programmers at Everyman Screen on the Green are putting on a 35mm Steven Spielberg season (full details here) with the arrival of The Fabelmans due later in January. This film is also being screened on January 11th. Details here.
Chicago Reader review:
For better or worse, one of Steven Spielberg's best films (1977), and
perhaps still the best expression of his benign, dreamy-eyed vision.
Humanity's first contact with alien beings proves to be a cause for
celebration and a form of showbiz razzle-dazzle that resembles a slowly
descending chandelier in a movie palace. The events leading up to this
epiphany are a mainly well-orchestrated buildup through which several
diverse individuals—Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Melinda
Dillon—are drawn to the site where this spectacle takes place. Very
close in overall spirit and nostalgic winsomeness to the fiction of Ray
Bradbury, with beautiful cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond that
deservedly won an Oscar. This is dopey Hollywood mysticism all right,
but thanks to considerable craft and showmanship, it packs an undeniable
punch.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the original trailer.
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