In the finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977, we’re talking about this season’s audience choice pick, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut, Bob Balaban and Teri Garr, Close Encounters of the Third Kind defeated Saturday Night Fever and Smokey and the Bandit in our audience choice poll of iconic 1977 films.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-close-encounters-review-20170831-story.html), Arthur Knight in TheHollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/close-encounters-third-kind-1977-review-947485), and A.D. Murphy in Variety (https://variety.com/1977/film/reviews/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1200424081/).

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