Sedona News – The Sedona International Film Festival, in collaboration with theaters around the world, is proud to present Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film that will be screened at the Alice Gill Sheldon Theatre on July 7th and 10th for a global return in 2024.
To celebrate Columbia Pictures' 100th anniversary, Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be screened again in theaters nationwide.
Directed by Steven Spielberg, this epic film was nominated for nine Academy Awards and won two, for Best Cinematography and Special Sound Effects Editing (for the late Sedona resident Frank Warner).
Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who, along with several other stunned bystanders, experiences his first close encounter with a UFO as it streaks across the sky.
After this life-changing event, he begins to be plagued by mysterious visions of strange mountain-like shapes. He becomes obsessed with figuring out what they represent, much to the dismay of his wife and family. Meanwhile, strange events are occurring all over the world. Government agents experience a second close encounter and discover physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors, including a fighter plane lost in World War II and a warship that vanished decades ago that suddenly reappears in unusual locations.
Roy continues to follow his visions into a remote area where he and the agent follow clues and arrive at a location where they experience a close encounter of the third kind, or contact.
With this special nationwide encore, why not experience Close Encounters of the Third Kind the way it was meant to be seen: on the big screen?
Close Encounters of the Third Kind will be showing at the Alice Gill Sheldon Theatre on July 7 and 10. Show times are Sunday, July 7 at 3:30 and 6:30 pm, and Wednesday, July 10 at 6:30 pm.
Tickets are $12, or $9 for festival members. For tickets or more information, call 928-282-1177. Both the theater and festival offices are at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A in West Sedona. For more information, visit the website at Sedona Film Festival.
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