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Cinema Club: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director’s Cut)

Cinema Club: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director’s Cut)

Cinema Club: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (Director’s Cut)

Dir. Steven Spielberg
137 min
PG

June Cinema Club

Saturday, June 13 at 11:00 AM

Presenting Steven Spielberg's definitive director's cut of his sci-fi blockbuster, digitally remastered in 2024.

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See Steven Spielberg's Disclosure Day at The Main Cinema starting June 11.

ABOUT THE FILM

Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who along with several other stunned bystanders experience a close encounter of the first kind - witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. After this life-changing event, the inexplicable vision of a strange, mountain-like formation haunts him. He becomes obsessed with discovering what it represents, much to the dismay of his wife and family. Meanwhile, bizarre occurrences are happening around the world. Government agents have close encounters of the second kind - discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappeared decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in unusual places. Roy continues to chase his vision to a remote area where he and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind - contact.

Cinema Club is generously sponsored by:

Julie and Charlie Zelle
Frances and Frank Wilkinson
Leni and David Moore

Film Details

Film Type: Fiction Feature
Release Year: 1977
Runtime: 137 min
Country/Region: USA
Rating: PG
Language: English
Print Source: Sony Pictures
Tags: Drama, Sci-fi
Program: Cinema Club

Cast/Crew

Director: Steven Spielberg
Cinematographer: Vilmos Zsigmond
Screenwriter: Steven Spielberg
Editor: Michael Kahn
Composer: John Williams
Principal Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, François Truffaut