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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Summary
1,140 words, approx. 4 pages With its elaborate, unprecedented use of special effects and novel portrayal of extraterrestrials, Close Encounters of the Third Kind opened to popular acclaim in November 1977, eventually earning $240 million in worldwide release and significantly...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind Information
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 <i>Close Encounters of the Third Kind</i> (1977) is a science fiction movie about unidentified flying objects. It was written and directed by Steven Spielberg. It stars Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Bob Balaban, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, and...



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Facts about AFI's top-100 movies
6/21/2007: 289 words, approx. 1 pages Here are some facts and trivia about the American Film Institute's new list of top-100 U.S. movies, with some comparisons to the institute's first such list in 1998:_ Out of the 43 newly eligible films released from 1996 to 2006, only four made the new...
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9/28/2007: 368 words, approx. 1 pages Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press: DEMOCRATS AND IRAN (The Wall Street Journal, New York) Kudos to Hillary Clinton -- yes, you read that right -- for her Senate vote this week urging the U.S. to designate Iran's Islamic Revolutionary...




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Critical Essay by Charlene Engel
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 In the following essay, Engel asserts that Close Encounters of the Third Kind is primarily concerned with language in a variety of forms—“verbal, visual, electronic, and musical.”
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Critical Essay by Garrett Stewart
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 Without the steely perfection or visual profundity of [Stanley] Kubrick's 2001, Spielberg's rousing entertainment [Close Encounters of the Third Kind] is easily the next most impressive venture in the film art of science fiction. Kubrick was out for apocalypse, Spielberg only for epiphany. Yet more is revealed than the cosmic visitation, for even more obviously than in Kubrick's masterpiece, Close Encounters offers a multiple comment on the genre in which Spielberg is working, the gifts...
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Critical Essay by B. H. Fairchild, Jr.
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 Almost everyone both in and out of [Close Encounters of the Third Kind] seems … to be waiting for some kind of miraculous salvation, an escape, an awakening, from the bad dream of social stagnation and middle-class malaise which the first half of Spielberg's movie so emphatically reminds us of. And we would probably all arise and go now … were it not for the film's sustained promise that soon, suspensefully soon, our questions will be answered, our emptiness will be filled, that ...


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