![]() ![]() Spielberg’s film drew on the science-fiction movies and TV shows of its director’s childhood. Like “Star Wars,” which had its premiere approximately half a year before “Close Encounters,” Mr. ![]() ![]() The location is the setting of the film’s finale, and those who make the trek for the screening, which is sponsored by Alamo Drafthouse theaters and the cable station Syfy, will be recapitulating that of its protagonist, Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss), a Midwestern telephone lineman redeemed and ultimately beatified by his belief in U.F.O.s. The pièce de résistance is the open-air screening on Saturday at the base of Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming. (In New York, these include the AMC Lincoln Square, AMC Empire and Regal Union Square.) In addition to a presentation at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday, the movie, newly remastered and digitally restored, opens on Friday for a special weeklong run in theaters across the country. “Close Encounters” will mark its 40th anniversary with appropriate fanfare. The French director François Truffaut once said that “when a film achieves a certain success, it becomes a sociological event.” Such was the case with Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” a movie in which Truffaut himself appeared as a scientist exploring the possibility of extraterrestrial life, and which was initially greeted with something like religious awe. ![]()
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