Close Encounters of the Third Kind (PG)

Dir Steven Spielberg, US, 1977, 129 mins
Richard Dreyfus, Francois Truffaut, Teri Garr

An ordinary man finds his unexceptional life turned upside down after an encounter with a UFO. With a thrilling story and unrivalled special effects, the film is all the more remarkable for the tricky personal issues it deals with, including uncomfortable emotional truths about family life. A must to be seen on the big screen – Vilmos Zsigmond rightly won the Oscar for Best Cinematography – this is a perfect complement to Spielberg’s recent Disclosure Day.