Close Encounters of the Third Kind  Blu-ray Sci-Fi-Fantasy
Written by Bill Warren    Tuesday, 01 January 2008  1 of 1
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became an enormous hit, surprising everyone (including director
Steven Spielberg), it was widely assumed that Universal, the
distributor, would hand the young director the keys to the
kingdom, backing anything he wanted to make. But they didn’t.
Spielberg instead made his next film for Columbia Pictures—and
it, too, was a smash hit. (Universal wised up: Spielberg
returned for “E.T.”)  Spielberg made this giant production under
a cloud of nearly-complete secrecy (a few scripts leaked out),
shooting it way off in Alabama, India and Wyoming. The title,
too, was mysterious: “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.” What
the hell did THAT mean? Gradually, though, people learned the
movie was about U.F.O.s, and that th