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Podcast: Have a Good Movie
Episode: SPIELBERG DIRECTOR SERIES: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
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CONTENT WARNING: Alien abduction, being treated as mentally ill, fear, obsession.
Spielberg’s second film was intended to be his motion picture debut, a passion project of his since making an adolescent film in the mid-60’s. In many ways, it’s his personal love letter to sci-fi, and there are moment of sublime beauty and awe in this film. You could probably just watch the last 35 minutes of the movie showing the moment where humans make contact with alien life, and leave a movie...