Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

Screening Room Film
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An Indiana lineman sees something he cannot explain, and finds his life reorganised around a shape he cannot stop building.
Medium Film
Year 1977
Creator Steven Spielberg
Runtime 135 min
Mode Fiction
IMDb tt0075860
Reviewed 2026-07-26

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Spielberg wrote and directed; the film depicts a government operation that evacuates a region under a fabricated nerve-gas pretext. Two Academy Awards, including Best Cinematography.

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The state knows, and the film’s tension comes from ordinary people being managed rather than informed — a nerve-gas pretext to clear a site.

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Contact is arranged, scored and rehearsed. The encounter is a scheduled event rather than an intrusion.

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Lights over Indiana that the authorities can identify and choose not to. The sighting is real inside the film’s world from the first scene.

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