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    MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018

    Watched CLOSE ENCOUNTERS for probably the 50th time -- I don't even know anymore -- with some teens who hadn't seen it yet. It worked like a charm. Nobody said a word. It's a remarkable film. Pure beauty. The last 40 minutes are sublime. Has Spielberg ever topped it?

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      2. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018

        I will always associate the movie with my dad. He took me to see it when I was 9. I owned the trading cards and memorized most of the images long before I saw the movie. Some of the shots in this thing still smell like photographic film and bubblegum to me.

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      3. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018

        J.G. Ballard once compared Spielberg to Rossini. I think about that comparison a lot. When he's really cooking, what he does is closer to symphonic music than traditional narrative cinema. He's conducting the audience's emotions.

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      4. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018

        I still notice new things ever time I watch CE3K, and I've been watching it once or twice a year for decades. This time I noticed the guy center-frame amid all the scientists surrounding the mothership's entrance. He simply collapses as if his knees just gave out on him.

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      5. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018

        This time for some reason I was really taken with the young, skinny piano player who spends the last twenty minutes of the film completely entranced, like a grownup version of Barry, the little boy.

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      6. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018

        I don't believe I have ever turned down an offer to watch Close Encounters again, and I doubt I ever will.

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      7. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018

        CLOSE ENCOUNTERS was the best film of 1977.

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      2. MZS‏ @mattzollerseitz 21 Dec 2018
        Replying to @daveparke

        No. I've only ever seen that sequence once, during the 1980 rerelease. Didn't Spielberg get rid of it after that?

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      1. Max Kath‏ @Hepcat25 21 Dec 2018
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        I think ET matches it, but otherwise no.

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      1. boat enthusiast‏ @iknowfilm420 21 Dec 2018
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        E.T. is Spielberg’s magnum opus in my humble opinionpic.twitter.com/zwkvMSA1Mh

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