On September 1, “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” will return to movie screens for one week. I don’t know if it will be “digitally enhanced,” but it seems probable that it will at least be cleaned up. If’n it’s showing at a theater anywhere near me, you can bet your ass I’m’a going. It, like “Star Wars” which premiered only half a year or so before it, has held up surprisingly well. Unlike “Star Wars,” I never saw “Close Encounters” in the theater, but it has all the hallmarks of a flick that demands a large screen.
And so long as they’re throwing this one back out there, why not:
1: “2001: A Space Odyssey”
2: “Star Trek The Motion Picture”
3: “The Black Hole”
4: “Blade Runner”
What else? Disney’s “20,000 Leagues Under The Sea?” “Patton?” “Raiders of the Lost Ark?”