Tuesday, May 14, 2024

Movies for June, 2024: The Day the World Stood Still and Close Encounters of the Third Kind

      John Cleary will host our 7 p.m. June 5 meeting at his home, and we will be discussing: 


The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

    An alien lands in Washington, D.C., and tells the people of Earth that they must live peacefully or be destroyed as a danger to other planets. 

Director: Robert Wise
Writers: Edmund H. North and Harry Bates
Stars: Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal and Hugh Marlowe

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

     Roy Neary, an Indiana electric lineman, finds his quiet and ordinary daily life turned upside down after a close encounter with a UFO, spurring him to an obsessed cross-country quest for answers as a momentous event approaches. 

Director: Steven Spielberg
Writers: Steven Spielberg, Hal Barwood and Jerry Belson
Stars: Richard Dreyfuss, Francois Truffaut and Teri Garr


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Scores for May 2024 Movies


Average rating on a 10-point scale

American Fiction (2024) 8 (9 voting)

Past Lives (2023) 6.7 (9 voting)


Films of Merit






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