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• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 40th Anniversary | Blu Ray | (09/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Released in 1977, Close Encounters of the Third Kind was that year's cerebral alternative to Star Wars. It's arguably the archetypal Spielberg film, featuring a fantasy-meets-reality storyline (to be developed further in E.T.), a misunderstood Everyman character (Richard Dreyfuss), apparently hostile government agents (long before The X-Files), a sense of childlike awe in the face of the otherworldly, and a sweeping feel for epic film-making learned from the classic school of David Lean. Contributing to the film's overall success are the Oscar-winning cinematography from Vilmos Zsigmond, Douglas Trumbull's lavish effects and an extraordinary score from John Williams that develops from eerie atonality à la Ligeti to the gorgeous sentiment of "When You Wish Upon a Star" over the end credits. Not content with the final result, Spielberg tinkered with the editing and inserted some new scenes to make a "Special Edition" in 1980 which ran three minutes shorter than the original, then made further revisions to create a slightly longer "Collector's Edition" in 1998. This later version deletes the mothership interior scenes that were inserted in the "Special Edition" and restores the original ending. On the DVD: CE3K is packaged here with confusing documentation that fails to make clear any differences between earlier versions of the film and this "Collector's Edition"--worse, the back cover blurb misleadingly implies that this disc is the 1980 "Special Edition" edit. It is not. A gorgeous anamorphic widescreen print of Spielberg's 1998 "Collector's Edition" edit occupies the first disc: this is the version with the original theatrical ending restored but new scenes from the "Special Edition" retained. The second disc rounds up sundry deleted scenes that were either dropped from the original version or never made it into the film at all--fans of the "Special Edition" can find the mothership interior sequence here. The excellent "making-of" documentary dates from 1997 and has interviews with almost everyone involved, including the director speaking from the set of Saving Private Ryan. Thankfully the superb picture and sound of the feature make this set entirely compelling and more than compensate for the inadequate packaging. --Mark Walker

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind--Collector's Edition (two discs) | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £12.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (76.98%)   |  RRP £22.99

  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.

• Close Encounters of the Third Kind - 40th Anniversary Limited Edition | 4K UHD | (09/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Anybody who has written him off because of his string of stinkers--or anybody who's too young to remember The Goodbye Girl --may be shocked at the accomplishment and nuance of Richard Dreyfuss's performance in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Here, he plays a man possessed; contacted by aliens, he (along with other members of the "chosen") is drawn toward the site of the incipient landing: Devil's Tower, in rural Wyoming. As in many Spielberg films, there are no personalized enemies; the struggle is between those who have been called and a scientific establishment that seeks to protect them by keeping them away from the arriving spacecraft. The ship, and the special effects in general, are every bit as jaw-dropping on the small screen as they were in the theater (well, almost). Released in 1977 as a cerebral alternative to the swashbuckling science fiction epics then in vogue, Close Encounters now seems almost wholesome in its representation of alien contact and interested less in philosophising about extra-terrestrials than it is in examining the nature of the inner "call." Ultimately a motion picture about the obsession of the driven artist or determined visionary, Close Encounters comes complete with the stock Spielberg wives and girlfriends who seek to tether the dreamy, possessed protagonists to the more mundane concerns of the everyday. So a spectacular, seminal motion picture indeed, but one with gender politics that are all too terrestrial. --Miles Bethany, Amazon.com

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind | Blu Ray | (23/10/2017) from £34.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Celebrate the 40th Anniversary of Steven Spielberg's scifi blockbuster, now fully restored in 4K. Richard Dreyfuss stars as cable worker Roy Neary, who experiences a close encounter of the first kind witnessing UFOs soaring across the sky. Meanwhile, government agents have close encounters of the second kind discovering physical evidence of extraterrestrial visitors in the form of a lost fighter aircraft from World War II and a stranded military ship that disappears decades earlier only to suddenly reappear in an unusual place. Roy and the agents follow the clues that have drawn them to reach a site where they will have a close encounter of the third kind contact. Includes All 3 Versions of the Film: Theatrical Version, Special Edition & Director's Cut - all restored in 4K.

• Xena Warrior Princess - Series 5, Part 2 | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  More hack n' slash sword and scorcery action from the warrior princess... Episodes include: God Fearing Child Eternal Bonds Amphipolis Under Siege Married With Fishsticks Life Blood Kindred Spirits Antony and Cleopatra Looking Death in the Eye Livia Eve Motherhood.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 6 Box Set 1 | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £17.98   |  Saving you £17.01 (48.60%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Fiesty fierce fantastic. Relish more adventures with the warrior princess Xena in this DVD collection of the first half of Season 6. Episodes Included On This DVD: Coming Home The Haunting Of Amphipolis Heart Of Darkness Who's Gurkhan Legacy The Abyss The Rheingold The Ring The Return Of The Valkyrie Old Ares Had a Farm Dangerous Prey.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 6 Box Set 2 | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £26.97   |  Saving you £8.02 (22.90%)   |  RRP £34.99

  More action/adventure from the princess who knows how to kick some butt!!!

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 3 - Part 2 | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Xena driven to vengeance by Ares nearly kills her friend Gabrielle but is taken to the mystical land Illusia where they are reunited. Gabrielle however is still tormented by her rift with Xena and tries to erase her memory at the Temple of Mnemosyne. After a tortuous ordeal she comes to realise that in order for good memories to exist there must also be bad memories. Enlightened by this they travel on together recovering the North Star jewel stolen from Aphrodite along the way only to discover Hope Gabrielle''s daughter in the process of being re-born into the world with the sacrifice of Gabrielle's friend Seraphin. Xena and Gabrielle realise they must stop this but are battling against their old foes Ares and Callisto again... Features the episodes: The Bitter Suite One Against an Army Forgiven King Con When in Rome Forget Me Not Fins Femmes and Gems Tsunami Vanishing Act and Sacrifice Parts One and Two.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 4 Boxset 1 | DVD | (05/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Where is Gabrielle - is she alive or dead? Xena tracks her down to the land of the Amazons trapped along with Amazon spirits. Xena fights Alti to see her best friend one more time but is it really her? Eventually reunited they travel on but things don''t go smoothly for the adventurous duo as Xena is sent to Shark Island Prison for past crimes and even Argo switches sides and becomes a Warlord's horse! Xena breaks free to continue her fight against injustice never easy as the evil Horde returns with a vengeance! Features the episodes: Adventures In The Sin Trade: Part I Adventures In The Sin Trade: Part II A Family Affair In Sickness And In Hell A Good Day A Tale Of Two Muses Locked Up And Tied Down Crusader Past Imperfect Key To The Kingdom and Daughter Of Pomira.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 2 (Box Set 1) | DVD | (11/02/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess now boasts a huge cult following. Xena is a charismatic and highly-skilled warrior from ancient times. This DVD box set includes the first half of the second season of this action-packed series.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 3 - Part 1 | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  More adventures with the warrior princess Xena who fights for the rights of the innocent.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 2 Volume 2 | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £55.00   |  Saving you £-20.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess now boasts a huge cult following. Xena is a charismatic and highly-skilled warrior from ancient times. This DVD box set includes the second half of the second season of this action-packed series.

• Close Encounters Of The Third Kind - The Reel Collection | DVD | (02/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Close Encounters Of The Third Kind is a mesmerizing movie about earth's encounter with spaceships and alien beings as experienced by one ordinary man.

• Xena - Warrior Princess - Series 4 Boxset 2 | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Epsiodes include: If The Shoe Fits / Paradise Found / Devi / Between The Lines / The Way / The Plays The Thing / The Convert / Takes One To Know One / Endgame / Ides Of March / Deja Vu All Over Again