Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Director’s Cut
- Thu, Jul 16
- Fri, Jul 17
- Sat, Jul 18
The Frida Cinema's seating is first-come, first-serve. For our Midnight Screenings, please plan on arriving by 11:30pm to ensure ample time for parking, picking up concessions, and securing optimal seats. Screening will begin promptly at midnight.
Director: Steven Spielberg Run Time: 137 min. Release Year: 1977
Starring: Bob Balaban, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Richard Dreyfuss, Teri Garr
We are not alone.
Our Spielberg Summer series continues with one of the filmmaker’s most personal and awe-inspiring works: the Director’s Cut of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a Science Fiction epic that looks to the stars with wonder instead of fear.
After an inexplicable encounter with a mysterious object in the night sky, ordinary family man Roy Neary begins experiencing strange visions that consume his life and lead him toward a destiny he cannot understand. As reports of unexplained phenomena spread across the globe, Roy joins a growing search for answers that culminates in one of the most unforgettable finales in movie history.
Where many Sci Fi films imagine alien contact as a threat, Close Encounters of the Third Kind dares to imagine it as a miracle. Spielberg’s knack for groundbreaking visual effects with a deeply human sense of curiosity shine brightly here, paired, of course, with a brilliant score from the one and only John Williams. It’s a reminder of why we go to the movies in the first place.