From Firelight to Close Encounters: The Making of Spielberg's UFO Classic
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Steven Spielberg’s lifelong fascination with UFOs culminated in Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film born from an early homemade project and evolving scripts, brought to life by Richard Dreyfuss and François Truffaut, scored by John Williams, and realized with pioneering effects by Douglas Trumbull that helped revive Columbia Pictures and left a lasting impact on science fiction.
