{"id":3454,"date":"2025-08-17T09:57:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T16:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2025-08-17T10:01:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T17:01:19","slug":"retro-70mm-movie-adventures-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/17\/retro-70mm-movie-adventures-close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-1977\/","title":{"rendered":"Retro 70mm Movie Adventures: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-1.jpg\" alt=\"Richard Dreyfus plays with his food in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.\" class=\"wp-image-3456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-1.jpg 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-1-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-1-768x483.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters.png\" alt=\"Bob Balaban in Close Encounters of the Third Kind.\" class=\"wp-image-3457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters.png 800w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters-300x38.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters-768x96.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This movie is full of great performances. I have a new favorite: Tape Guy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"825\" height=\"519\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters-tape-guy.png\" alt=\"The true hero of Close Encounters of the Third Kind: TAPE RECORDER GUY!\" class=\"wp-image-3458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters-tape-guy.png 825w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters-tape-guy-300x189.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/close-encounters-tape-guy-768x483.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 825px) 100vw, 825px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You know he begged to sit on stage for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here&#8217;s your fake poster:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"A fake poster for Close Encounters of the Third Kind mimicking the poster for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.\" class=\"wp-image-3455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Close-Encounters.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THIS MEANS SOMETHING.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":10,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[161,63,20],"tags":[78,10,107,300],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-movie-pass-adventures","category-movies","category-photoshop","tag-movies","tag-photoshop","tag-poster","tag-spielberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3463,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ga2so.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}