Episode 13

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21st Oct 2020

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977 Audience Choice)

In the finale of our season on the awesome movie year of 1977, we’re talking about this season’s audience choice pick, Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Francois Truffaut, Bob Balaban and Teri Garr, Close Encounters of the Third Kind defeated Saturday Night Fever and Smokey and the Bandit in our audience choice poll of iconic 1977 films.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Charles Champlin in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-close-encounters-review-20170831-story.html), Arthur Knight in TheHollywood Reporter (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/close-encounters-third-kind-1977-review-947485), and A.D. Murphy in Variety (https://variety.com/1977/film/reviews/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1200424081/).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in next time for our 1977 season epilogue.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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David Rosen is a music composer and podcast producer. He has scored feature films, commercials and more, as well as creating albums of instrumental music. He currently produced Piecing It Together which he hosts and Awesome Movie Year.