Peter Bannon


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Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Can You Tell Me Where Cornbread Is? On the first night of blackouts sweeping across Indiana, lineman Roy Neary (Richard Dreyfuss) encounters director Steven Spielberg’s gimmick with the headlights, and a famous sequence from special effects expert Douglas Trumbull, in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1977.
Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You Come Here A Lot? Now teaching deaf children and fantasizing her way through the San Francisco (though shot in Chicago) red-light scene at night, Diane Keaton (as Theresa) with an indirect reference to her then best-known movie role (The Godfather, and sequel), at a bar, meeting Tony (Richard Gere), in Looking For Mr. Goodbar,1977.
Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Your Daughter Has A Beautiful Body Theresa (Diane Keaton) has just been dumped by her married professor boyfriend (Alan Feinstein) then enters into one of her wildest daydreams, Brian Dennehy the doctor, Richard Kiley her dad, then joining her increasingly free-living sister (Tuesday Weld), in writer-director Richard Brooks’ Looking For Mr. Goodbar,1977.
Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Describe An Irresistible Temptation First scene, writer-director Richard Brooks working from the novel by Judith Rossner based on the murder of schoolteacher Roseann Quinn, Diane Keaton as student Theresa experiences both reality and fantasy with her professor (Alan Feinstein), in Looking For Mr. Goodbar, 1977.
Looking For Mr. Goodbar (1977) -- (Movie Clip) You're The Rock, Baby So far we’ve mostly seen Theresa (Diane Keaton) in her affair with her professor, now we meet her family, parents Richard Kiley and Priscilla Pointer, and flight attendant and formerly-married sister Katherine (Academy Award-nominated Tuesday Weld) in Looking For Mr. Goodbar,1977.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) Are We The First? Joining director Steven Spielberg’s opening, no explanation as Bob Balaban (as “Laughlin”) leads us through a mystifying sand storm in Mexico, and meets Francois Truffaut, the great French director, playing scientist Lacombe, in Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1977.
Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977) -- (Movie Clip) At Devil's Tower First Roy (Richard Dreyfuss), taking a break to beg his wife to come home, then Jillian (Melinda Dillon), see TV news reports identifying the mountain with which they’ve both been obsessed with since their UFO experiences, in Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, 1977.
1941 (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Northern California Coast Opening his famously expensive and box-office un-friendly follow up to Jaws and Close Encounters Of The Third Kind, director Steven Spielberg decides to have fun with a reference to the former, using the same swimmer (Denise Cheshire), in 1941, 1979, starring John Belushi.
1941 (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Strategically Advantageous A Santa Monica peace-nik housewife (Lorraine Gary) receives Sgt. Tree (Dan Aykroyd) and crew (Treat Williams, John Candy et al), her husband (Ned Beatty) thrilled to accept their anti-aircraft gun, their daughter (Diane Kay) torn between soldiers and her local beau (Bobby DiCiccio), nutty goings-on in Steven Spielberg's 1941, 1979.
1941 (1979) -- (Movie Clip) Save It For The Japs Dan Aykroyd as Sergeant Tree with his crew (Treat Williams as "Sitarski," also John Candy) in a coastal cafe, then meeting gonzo pilot Wild Bill Kelso (John Belushi), observed by veteran Elisha Cook Jr., in Steven Spielberg's 1941, 1979.
Day Of The Dolphin, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Care And Feeding DeMilo (Fritz Weaver) has just told scientist Terrell (George C. Scott) that there's a risk of losing his funding, so he decides to reveal what he's gotten his dolphins to do, a big story point, in Mike Nichols' The Day Of The Dolphin, 1973.
Day Of The Dolphin, The (1973) -- (Movie Clip) Total Physical Sensation Opening sequence, in which the circumstances of leading man George C. Scott's speech are not revealed, Paul Sorvino among the observers in cut-aways, from Buck Henry's screenplay with Mike Nichols directing, in The Day Of The Dolphin, 1973.

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