Episode 525: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2021

⏱️ 224 minutes

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Summary

Sci-Fi Month rolls on with a deep dive into Steven Spielberg’s iconic Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). This film weaves together three gripping tales: first, cartographer-turned-investigator David Laughlin (Bob Balaban) and French scientist Claude Lacombe (François Truffaut) chase the mystery of alien contact; next, single mother Julian Guiler (Melinda Dillon) faces the unimaginable when her son, Barry, is abducted by otherworldly visitors; and finally, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss), a man lost in the monotony of life, finds his world forever changed after a close encounter that leaves him haunted by visions of an alien invitation.

Mike is joined by Suzen Tekla Kruglnska and El Goro to explore this sci-fi masterpiece. The episode features exclusive interviews with production designer Joe Alves, screenwriter Matthew Robbins, second assistant director Jim Bloom, and special effects legend Douglas Trumbull.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:27.6	Turn it off.
0:31.5	Hey,
0:32.1	it. Close encounters of the first kind of an unidentified flying object.
0:48.3	Closed encounters of the second kind.
0:56.7	Physical evidence of a UFO.
1:00.9	Close encounters of the third kind.
1:03.0	Actual contact.
1:10.4	Columbia Pictures in association with EMI presents close encounters of the third kind.
1:14.9	The director is Steven Spielberg, whose most recent motion picture, Jaws, is already a legend.
1:23.2	The producers are Julia Phillips and Michael Phillips of The Sting and taxi driver.
1:31.4	Creating special effects is Douglas Trumbull, who in this film goes far beyond its achievements in 2001 of Space Odyssey.
1:40.2	For the music, there was only one choice, 11-time Academy Award nominee, John Williams,
1:47.0	composer of the scores for Jaws and Star Wars.
1:50.7	The technical advisor is the world's foremost authority on unidentified flying objects,
1:55.9	Dr. J. Allen Heineck of Northwestern University.
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