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Article: `Close Encounters' in our orbit 1977 sci-fi masterpiece was fine-tuned, resulting in `Collector's Edition'
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 29, 1998
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Columbia TriStar's recently released "Close Encounters of the
Third Kind: The Collector's Edition" ($14) is being described as the
"definitive" version of Steven Spielberg's 1977 sci-fi blockbuster
starring Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri
Garr and Cary Guffey.
Of course, a lot of the fans of the movie thought there was
nothing wrong with the original version. But three years after its
release, the "Special Edition" hit theaters.
Spielberg had deleted some scenes from the 1977 version and added
a few new sequences, including a disappointingly hokey ending set
inside the alien spaceship.
"The Collector's Edition," digitally remastered from newly
restored film ...