This DVD version of 1977’s “Close Encounters” is truly of the third kind — it’s director Steven Spielberg’s third official stab at finding a cut that satisfies him. The theatrical ...

Steven Spielberg's "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" is returning to theaters nearly 40 years to the day it was originally released in 1977. Spielberg's own director's cut of the film was ...

Steven Spielberg became a household name with tales of action, adventure, and, beginning with Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, visitors from other worlds. It's a subject he would return to ...

Richard Dreyfuss lobbied to star in Close Encounters after hearing Spielberg's ideas for the movie on the set of Jaws. There's an undeniable sense of childlike wonder captured in Spielberg's ...