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post #121 of 126
3/21/09 at 5:46am

Re: SPHE Press Release: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniv. (DVD,BLU-RAY)

I've got that book somewhere. Didn't she also say that cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond was sacked for working too slowly?
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post #122 of 126
3/21/09 at 6:57am

Re: SPHE Press Release: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniv. (DVD,BLU-RAY)

Was Zsigmond sacked? I know at one point Phillips was begging Spielberg to fire him.
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post #123 of 126
3/21/09 at 1:13pm

Re: SPHE Press Release: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniv. (DVD,BLU-RAY)

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Originally Posted by Steve Christou
Was Zsigmond sacked? I know at one point Phillips was begging Spielberg to fire him.
Its possible. Spielberg also used Bill Fraker and Douglas Slocombe on the picture.
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post #124 of 126
3/21/09 at 1:21pm

Re: SPHE Press Release: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniv. (DVD,BLU-RAY)

Vilmos Zsigmond won an Oscar for his work on Close Encounters, I wonder what his thank you speech must have been like. "...and finally thank you Mr. Spielberg for sacking me..."
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post #125 of 126
3/22/09 at 2:58pm

Re: SPHE Press Release: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniv. (DVD,BLU-RAY)

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I know at one point Phillips was begging Spielberg to fire him.

I vaguely recall reading about one incident involving Phillips and Zsigmond. I don't remember where I read it. It might have been on this forum. Basically it involved the dailies on one of the scenes coming back overexposed from Phillips' perspective. She went over Zsigmond's head and ordered the film to be reprocessed. Supposedly this infuriated Zsigmond who had the film processed exactly how he wanted it to look and there might have went to each other's throats over it. I could be wrong about these details though. Like I said, it was something I am vaguely remembering.
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post #126 of 126
3/23/09 at 11:51am

Re: SPHE Press Release: Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 30th Anniv. (DVD,BLU-RAY)

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This piece of dialogue is not in the new release, and that makes me think that it is not the truly original theatrical cut. I am very, very sure that I am not imagining having heard that specific piece of dialogue. Can anyone else confirm this?

KMR - I saw a print of the original version a couple of years ago at a theater in Seal Beach (don't know where they got it; it was a little aged, but certainly watchable), and I don't think that line was in there. ("Run, Mr. Neary.") The scene of Ray, Jillian, & Larry running is a little longer in the OV than in either of the other cuts, but Lacombe didn't have any lines there.

Of course, I can't confirm what might have been in 1977 prints, but as far as I can tell, the OV on the 30th Anniversary Edition is the same as what I saw that night. I'm sorry; I know that probably doesn't help.
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