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Sibling CinemaAuthor: Bonnie and Dennis
Welcome to Sibling Cinema! Dennis and Bonnie are siblings and we're here to talk movies! Dennis is an obsessive cinephile and Bonnie is a super casual movie watcher. In this series we are embarking on a countdown of the Academy Award Best Picture winners. We aggregated several different lists (our trailer goes into more detail on how) that rank the ninety-four winners of the Best Picture Academy Award in a rough attempt to get a consensus. It is not intended to be rigorous or definitive. It's just a framework to guide our journey through cinema history. Language: en Genres: Film History, TV & Film Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it Trailer: |
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Thursday, 26 March, 2026
This week, we discuss Steven Spielberg's follow-up to Jaws, the science fiction classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film that traded the alien invasion tropes of the 1950s for a sense of spiritual wonder, mystery and awe. And five famous bars of John WIlliams music.SPOILER ALERT We will be talking about this movie in its entirety, including the iconic five-tone sequence and the transformative finale at Devil's Tower. If you haven't seen this masterpiece, we strongly suggest you watch it before listening to our takes.A Columbia Pictures and EMI Films production. Released on November 16, 1977. Directed and written by Steven Spielberg. Starring Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, and Bob Balaban. Cinematography by Vilmos Zsigmond. Edited by Michael Kahn. Music by John Williams.
