new book about CE3K

[Bryant Burnette 790]

Ray Morton's Close Encounters of the Third Kind: The Making of Steven Spielberg's Classic Film came out last year, so it's not brand-new, but it's pretty new, and it's also pretty awesome.

The book goes into tons of detail about every aspect of production (pre-, unhyphenated, and post-). It's extremely readable (although some of the more technical aspects of the visual effects section get a bit bogged down), and highly recommended for anyone who cinsiders themselves a fan of the movie.

One caveat: not much about the music. This is a very detailed book, even including a recounting of how the posters were designed; but the score gets relatively short shrift. It may simply be that Morton was unable to get any interview time with Williams or anyone else closely associated with the scoring of the film. Then again, maybe not. Either way, it's a great book.

[vmw331 4]

I saw this advertised in a film mag last year and I forgot all about this book.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention again. I've gotta check this out!

[Bryant Burnette 790]

It's excellent. Morton has also written another book about the history of King Kong, from the original right up through the remake. I want a copy of that one right now.

[Ollie 1,375]

I've read some of the Kong book and I plan to get it soon.