Close Encounters of the Third Kind

***** "Steven Spielberg's sci-fi masterpiece may be the nearest thing he created to an old-fashioned epic...this is nderline"></a> that needs no other referents." - The Guardian

***** "You owe it to yourself to watch it on the biggest screen possible" - Total Film

***** "[Spielberg's] greatest work" - Time Out

**** "Steven Spielberg's sci-fi epic has been reissued in a 35mm director's cut: a grainy, gorgeous trip with the tantalising prospect of alien-human friendship at its end." - The Times

**** "It's a big ol' mess of a movie, but an extremely lovable one." - Little White Lies

"A winning blend of otherwordly spectacle and low-ket suburban realism, it's one of the director's best films." - The Big Issue

How Close Encounters channels the wishful spirit of Pinocchio - Little White Lies

Spielberg goes sublime: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - BFI Online

Screening exclusively at BFI Southbank on 35mm