The genius of this film is that it goes beyond humanity and asks the biggest question of all. In my opinion, it's the greatest film ever made.

They sure don't make movies like they used to, the story, acting, directing, effects from this movie still stands the test of time.

The heart that Spielberg adds to his movies, like a chef with a secret ingredient, is what makes his movies special.

All this was done masterly by miniatures and old school techniques, no CGI. Hours and hours of work by technicians. Much respect.

To this day I still call this picture up and watch it to be my time machine. Growing up in the 70’s and 80’s … We definitely had the best new films for those decades that were the catalyst for so many more to come … we were truly lucky to live in the last best decades of America. From Star Wars, Star Trek, Jaws, Close Encounters, Superman, Aliens, Predator, E.T. to name a few. These pictures were our only technology. However back then we lived such a different way of life here in America that today people can’t understand or imagine it . We did not lock our doors, we did not have shootings, we talked about things over dinner, we went camping, swimming and did many things together and appreciated the simple things in life like a walk up town for an ice cream or a cold soda in a glass bottle. It was just better then……….

Thank God!, there wasn't a remake!..

One of the great movies ever, cant get enough of it...

Thank you, Steven, for the very first movie that I remember my folks taking me to see in the cinema when I was a kid. 🌎🌏🌍🌌🔭📡🚀🛸👽🖖🏻

You are so right, the movie was like a Roller coaster ride! So much fun to watch. Richard Dreyfuss should have gotten a academy award 🏆 for his outstanding performance in Close encounters of the third kind. The music 🎶 also made the space ship seem so real. Hats off to Steven Spielberg, he is a genius. 🎩🧢👒. I still Love 💗 this movie after all these years!

The part of the movie that enforces quarantines over a faked story...this reminds me of this current year so much! I was a 21 year old theater usher when this film was playing in 70mm, 6 channel stereo every night for months. Love hearing John Williams in stereo with 16 Altec speakers picking up every signal.

I am glad this movie was made when it was. Spielberg is a different man now and would never have made the movie this way today.

Oh God!! It's been over 40 years since I first went to see this amazing movie. Still my favourite all time movie bar none. I admit I disliked the Special Edition intensely but, was so relieved when the Directors Cut came out with the Theatrical Cut reissued also. No other Alien contact film has ever come close to Close Encounters in any way. Spielberg nailed it on his first try and I am ever thankful to him. This film has a very special place for me. Changed my outlook on everything. Thank you Steven Spielberg.

The first sci-fi I had seen and nothing has even come close to beating this gem!

In Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, near the end of the movie, did anyone else notice how the mother ship arose from below Devils Tower? Another thing I noticed recently watching the DVD, when all of those previously abducted people were walking down the ramp of the UFO to terra firma, (after the military pilots) there was also a dog that exited the mother ship. Steven Spielberg thought of everything!

as a kid i loved the scene where dreyfuss builds the devil tower in his living room.

I bought this on DVD when I was a kid with pocket money … Spielberg is my favourite director because, like he said, he was a big kid.

46 years later the special FX are still so amazing and the movie exists as a time capsule

Unbelievable how relevant this movie is in 2021

An absolute classic...i have it here on DVD but saw it first in the cinema theatre in 1977 when it came out !!

This movie gave me constant chills up my spine when i saw it on release in the cinema.

They NEED to make a sequel now where the guy who left comes back and hasn't aged!!!! It's been decades!!!!

I saw this movie, in room, in Marseille, in France, on March 11th, 1978.

We were interviewed by Dr J Allen Hynek afer our ufo encounter. He came to my country in the 70s. My husband got feedback that said he was impressed with our interview.

One of my favorite films by Steve Spielberg to this day

Besides being a great movie, the various domestic scenes do a great job of portraying middle American life in the 1970s... right down to that damn soap opera my mom always used to watch

Best movie ever.... still today.

My favourite film of all time and soundtrack! The climbing of devils tower and shop communication inspired me into music!

Genius of Spielberg ...real genius ...one of most intelligent figures in film 🎥🔯

even better when you know this was based on Fact, and not Fiction, this movie fascinated me back then, and still does to this day

Great Look back over 30yrs of Steven Spielberg's Great Close Encounters and Great Cinema Career as the Greatest Director!!

I have to watch it every now and again...even tho' Ive seen it a dozen times or so. You'd think in the midst of all the ancient alien theories, my 'looking back' at this movie would sorta fade. But if anything, "Ancient Aliens" kind forced me to watch this a few more times. And to boot, there is so much of what that program talks about, that is all over the movie (UFO sightings, abductions, the way UFOs move, motherships, probes of light, how fast they are, pilot experiences with UFOs, old aircraft from decades ago, appearing in deserts, etc)

all time favorite movie

Remember searching the skies on the ride home having seen the film?

just got done watching this. still love it

Best Spielberg movie.

My favorite movie besides the darkknight.Seen it in the cinema and it blew me away.

He's a genius.

Steven cleared every hurdle and got this made EPIC‼️ 8:15 In New Mexico in the middle of nowhere .I laid down in some tall Grass to sleep while hitchhiking .I thought I was looking at a oil refinery, a bunch of white lights suspended in the air. There was no structure anywhere in sight when I got ready to leave.

the air traffic control scene from close encounters and the uss Indianapolis story from jaws are for me 2 of the greatest scenes steven spielberg has done in absolute film history

Spielberg is a fucking genius!!

While Steven Spielberg was filming Close Encounters of the Third Kind, George Lucas came to visit him. BTW, that 2% gross is still in effect, as both men agreed to, as far as which movie would make more at the box office- George's movie was the first Star Wars movie, which Steven predicted would be a historic box office smash. He was right- Close Encounters was also a box office smash, too, back in 1977!!!

Still 2 of his masterpiece films.

Still my favorite movie of all time. Never been a better movie made about UFOs!..

Steven spielberg was sent a 20 page booklet to his residemce from the government and told him not to release the movie because that last scene depicts 12 people boarding the ship was based on real actual event that took place through 1964 through 1978 the mission was called project serpo and yea pretty wicked awesome stuff gotta love it also this movie changed my life :)

there will never be another director as brilliant as Spielberg!

Wyoming my favorite state ...I drove through many states ...Washington State also impressive ...America special nation spiritually ...my impression 🌎 💖

One of the best film directors of all time, same director for "Saving private Ryan".

I heard Spielberg's one regret about the script of Close Encounters was letting Roy leave his family.

Spielberg is an Alien. No human has that much genius.

A perfect movie in all respects..

Should be in Sight and Sounds top one hundred greatest films..

However Stephen we DO film them around the World every day!

이티이후, 미지와의조우는 제게 최고의명작이었습니다. 고맙습니다. 스티븐스필버그

Thank you!!!! :)

Yo tenia 5 o 6 años cuando la estrenaron acá en Chile, mi tío(abuelo) nos llevo a verla, función vespertina, llegamos cuando abducían al niño...tremendo espectáculo ante mis ojos. Luego la vi completa en Tv.

Stevie has been compromised. These were his glory days... Jaws, Close Encounters and Raiders. Great fiction adventures with cinematic flair!

That mashed potatoes scene happened to me (without the potatoes) as I explained a religious experience I had with my family.

Es un lastima que no hizo un nuevo films seguramente no tendria idea dado que en treinta años no hubo encuentros

I can listen to Spielberg forever.

I wish you could make a new one !!! This is the most realistic sci-fi movie about extraterrestrial Being movie !

Steven Spielberg best director in the universe

Anyone who has seen this....a contributor advisor was BluBook USAF ufo investigatorJ. Allen Hynek,who was originally a debunker...later became a devout believer...he is in scene at end if im mistaken...even with his pipe....when the mothership lands...he comes out of the group of technicians etc...

One thing that seldom gets mentioned. The short musical note and tone when the mothership hovers over Devil's Tower and turns over...is exactly the same as when Dave Bowman in 2001 : A Space Odyssey is in the middle of the stargate sequence. Nobody ever mentions this....but it seems to me deliberate. Compare the music at 3.53 in this clip with that at 2.15 here... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gL9dlM2Bs7exmGQ.html

I can 'guff' the 5 tones! That deep bass moog sound..

Steven,cuándo filmas las siguientes peliculas mas realistas de Encuentro cercano de tercer tipo,te aseguro que será bien taquillera!!

V.Good Movie by Mr.Speilberg!

Unwatchable???. !! I think this film is full of some of the most imaginative images in movie history. The approach to the UFO's was highly original. The mother ship is presented as a "what if" and what's wrong with that?. You'd rather have a giant cigar hover over the mountain? I mean to each their own. But the sense of awe and wonder i get when i watch this film has not diminished in 35 years. Spielberg knows how to capture that on film so well. Its why i enjoy the film

Look at 8:34, digital numbers. Never seen that before in that movie.

I saw ten UFOs back in Clinton, Iowa on April 30, 1966. They were about a dime at arm's length. They stopped overhead and sent a chill down my spine. I was stationed at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo, TX from 75 to 78. My Wife and I went to see the movie and police chase sent the same chill down my spine. My sighting has stuck with me.

above all, one of the first film about, intuition ... opening doors

The best movie ever! I've watched it so many times that I know everybody's line's. 🤣 McDonald's made a killing off this movie.

I care not whether anyone believes this or not, I will just share it for those who keep an open mind, and wish the rest of you all the best. A friend and colleague of mine (a doctor of material science, Yuri Lozotzev) investigated close encounters of the third kind in Russia at the request of the KGB in 1989, after a series of landings occurred in Voronezh. An egg-shaped craft landed in a football park witnessed by 30 children. A bus-shaped object landed on a Russian nuclear asset site - and left after being fired upon - witnessed by two soldiers whom he then interviewed, and there were other landings in various other settings. They were very tall, benevolent beings, who appear to have craft that travel trans-dimensionally, and not through space. A high-ranking military friend of his told him that hovering UFOs helped to avert the Chernobyl reactor from reaching critical mass and exploding in 1986. Jacques Vallee traveled to Russia and compared notes with them. He said the French had recorded UFOs for more than 200 years - noting that old sightings were of 'balloons', as in alien visitation 'by balloon' suggesting that they might tailor their craft's appearance to fit in with the locals, so to speak. The 'dark matter' which generates the unaccounted gravity we can detect in the universe may be direct evidence for the parallel dimensions which share the space we live in. Other beings may have discovered ways of moving between dimensions, perhaps prompted by our fondness for nuclear explosions, which may impact their dimensions in some way, hence making our nuclear programs of great interest to them. In 1995, at a racetrack in Ballybrit, Galway, Ireland, I and about 20,000 people witnessed a golden sphere appear out of nowhere - it hung directly over the course like a little sun - where it hung motionless for about 20-30 minutes before disappearing. It was not a meteorological phenomenon, and it was not St' Elmo's fire as was suggested by the meteorology office (no metal conductive surfaces anywhere closeby). What it was I have no frame of reference for. People just stared at it, and there was no major reaction. I now believe it was from another dimension and that we were being observed. Not only are we not alone, they are most likely already here. Peace.

hmmm, interesting.... I've noted that not one interviewee dares to come forward about the truth there... This "making of" should be renamed as Jaws 2 ( 1977: 138minutes in it's true form ), because that's what it is. No one cared about the sharks in Jaws 1 (1975: 124minutes ), what people wanted was more Dr. Hooper and this was to be the sequel and HIS own side story about life after Jaws 1 (1975: 124minutes ). True, hardcore Jawsheads might not care that much about the film naming sequence, but hardcore Hooperheads care about Canon and it's important to note that Jaws 2 (1978: 126minutes ) - as you all know it - was finally re-named Close Encounters of the Third Kind ( 1977: 138minutes ) due to Spielberg being denied the naming rights to the Jaws sequel. He wanted less sharks, because that had already been done in Jaws 1 (1975: 124minutes ) and more aliens, a larger threat, but the studio backed him into a corner over having MORE sharks and Spielberg eventually packed his things and left to make the TRUE sequel with his own money. It DID finally come out as "Jaws 2" but that was never it's original name. After this, Jaws 2 ((1978: 126minutes ) was actually Jaws 3 (1983: 99minutes ), Jaws 3 (1983: 99minutes ) was actually Jaws 4 (1987: 89minutes ) and Jaws 4 ( 1987: 89minutes ) was in fact really Jaws FIVE ( 1987: 89minutes ). Why the creators of this "making of" have chosen to stay silent on the truth and not expose the sex perverts of Hollyweird, is beyond me.

Hopefully they ARE friendly.

Please forgive my bad language, but i fucking love this guy! The word 'Genius' just about touches it. Kudos though, to everybody else involved! An all time fave film of mine... \m/ (:o)

I hope Spieldberg makes one last alien movie, especially right now it would be so relevant.

Steven Spielberg seemed to know about alien UFO existence way back in the 70's....long before most folks had Televisions....telephone..

If you LOVE Close Encounters of the Third Kind, then search on KZfaq for "We Were NEVER Alone screenplay presentation" and then please share with your friends. Maybe we can get some online momentum going for a sequel.

i wish to see the return of mr merry !

6:25, Michael Jackson watched this movie on video tape while in the hospital after his hair caught fire during the filming of the Pepsi commercial. Did he pattern his look after that person? Just a thought.

I think the reason we don't have all of the UFO sightings like we used to is because the aliens are seeing what we're doing to ourselves as a society and are keeping their distance.

Pardon the language but ....fkn facisnating as fk..one of my all time movies

Steven knows way more then he says.......

Sone of the greTest one of the Greatest movies ever made

wouldn't be surprised if next year they make a documentary 40 years of ET

*In our galaxy alone there may be MILLIONS of primitive Precambrian equivalent planets, THOUSANDS of Stone-age equivalent planets, and only less than 100 Radio communications planets, all too, too far to be heard. This is the Drake Equation.*

At the end of this movie when they took Richard Dreyfuss away with them. Did they ignore the others ? ( Is it because they were not invited, because they had not received that telepathic connection ) ? Or did they also go with them.. but they only show Dreyfess being led up the spaceship by the aliens.. ?

He made E.T for himself But this film he made for us

Dr. Steven Greer will not make you skeptical. There have been hundreds, maybe thousands of recorded sightings due to his program, CE5.

aspect ratio? pls!

죽기전에 꼭! 가보고싶은곳중 한곳! 와이밍주의 데블스타워!:)

I would like to see Steven Spielberg make another great classic such as this movie. :D *Haven't you ever wondered that life might be just like a video game? Imagine creating a character in like a video game, and you are basically are trying for example how you look like and how your future is going to be? what are your special abilities, what are you going to become as you grow. So Instead of saying that "GOD" made man kind, why not say Aliens came up with man kind.* - great movies are created with dreams and imagination. so why not do the same for future films?

I dreamed of UFOs after this film for a long time. I watched a pirate copy of et at a friends birthday party. Gremlins changed the way I looked at films. Jaws scared me... Some people are just meant to create things...

the watchers pull back BECAUSE OF ALL THE CAM quarters

Are you going to release it in 3D ??

So he had producers who had worked on Taxi Driver (1976) lined up before he made Jaws (1975)? Doesn't make sense.

There are other beings, there are other intelligence's out there, -what we view in movies now is the future. Frankenstein 1940s movies about a scientist who uses body parts to produce a human being, resuscitated by electricity, today we use electricity to shock the heart back to life, we can also do heart transplants, use the face of a dead person to put on another, so the movie proved this would happen. First Man on the Moon movie 1940s shows a rocket not unlike the one used to go to the moon, they also acted weightlessness , a space suit, so how did they know about this. Terminator movie, robots talking and fighting against humans, micro technology, tracking people, and even more concerning SKYNET. So we now have robots ready for use in the workplace and soon to be in Tesco, Asda, etc, drones already used in war situations, and SKY TV, and they are branching out in to every conceivable field. So there you have it Spielberg once believed but now is more sceptical , it should be the other way around, its more real than ever before.

They will want his brain someday👽✨

In the 70s. 🎉 I looked for St.Nicolus aska Santa Claus, 🎉and I found out after seeing this 🎉movie , thanks for nothing except something was under my 🌲 ‼️

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