The Neon Bible - Flashback: Close Encounters Of The Third Kind
Will be posting the text from my articles for the much-missed movie magazine Neon as and when. First up, an oral history of Spielbeg's CE3K.
The producers almost hit the roof when they saw the budget – the effects bill alone was $3 million! Who the hell did the director think he was? Steven Spielberg?
In 1964, 17-year-old ‘Steve’ Spielberg, as he then liked to be known, directed his first film. Entitled Firelight, it was inspired by the sci-fi novels of Ray Bradbury and Arthur C Clarke and th…
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