Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Douglas Trumbull, visual effects artist on 2001: A Space Odyssey, dies at 79
Much-respected figure in visual effects was also known for work on Close Encounters of the Third Kind and The Tree of Life
Richard Dreyfuss: 'I was a bad guy for a number of years'
His life has been a rollercoaster ever since Jaws. Richard Dreyfuss talks about Hollywood hell-raising, cocaine burnout, his flirting heyday – and his problems with #MeToo
My favourite film aged 12
My favourite film aged 12: Close Encounters of the Third KindMaking contact with Steven Spielberg’s UFO spectacular once again, I find the movie’s earthly concerns resonate even more powerfully than its sense of cosmic wonder
Film blog
They'll be back: are reissues of familiar favourites crowding out hard-to-find classics?Terminator 2, Dirty Dancing and The Silence of the Lambs are all set for cinema runs – but are brilliant older films in danger of permanent eclipse?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind review – Spielberg's spectacular returns to Earth
Digitally restored to mark the 40th anniversary of its release, the director’s UFO blockbuster has lost none of its grand celestial magic
My family values
Richard Dreyfuss: ‘The one topic on which my dad would open up was sex’The actor talks about being the middle child with a funny, political mother and a distant, money-oriented father with a violent past
Is the big-hearted Spielbergian sci-fi of Close Encounters dead?
The 40th anniversary rerelease of the director’s optimistic tale of aliens landing in America is a sweetly naive imagining of how warm the reception might be, at odds with what the genre now offers audiences
From the Guardian archive
The aliens have landed in Hollywood – archive9 August 1984: Bart Mills reports on the new wave of creature features
This much I know
Richard Dreyfuss: ‘When I die I want the chance to hit God in the face’The actor, 68, on agnosticism, depression and having ‘the finest body of work of any American actor’
What Steven Spielberg's science fiction tells us about America
Not just fantasies, Steven Spielberg’s visions of alien landings and artificial intelligence are also a barometer of a nation’s hopes and fears
Close Encounters of the Third Kind review – a must-watch director's cut
Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi masterpiece may be the nearest thing he created to an old-fashioned epic
Vilmos Zsigmond, Oscar-winning cinematographer, dies aged 85
How Interstellar made Michael Caine think again about climate change
Mother nature’s going to be fine – but we might not be, adds Matthew McConaughey, star of film that addresses humans’ place in the cosmos
The film that changed my life
Joss Whedon: the film that changed my lifeScreenwriter and director Joss Whedon tells Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy how Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind made him an existentialist
Jonathan Jones on art
Was postmodernism born with Close Encounters of the Third Kind?Jonathan Jones: The V&A is preparing to celebrate a cultural movement that has baffled some and invigorated others. But did it all begin with Steven Spielberg's 1977 SF film?
The 25 best sci-fi and fantasy films of all time
Close Encounters of the Third Kind: No 11 best sci-fi and fantasy film of all time
Philip French's DVD club
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Spielberg going down a wormhole
Steven Spielberg is flying back into space. The man who brought us ET and Close Encounters of the Third Kind is to develop a film about a group of space explorers who travel to a new dimension via a wormhole - a hypothetical shortcut through space and time.
Richard Dreyfuss cans film career
The star of Jaws and Close Encounters of the Third Kind has announced that he is quitting the film business
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