MOVIES - July 29, 1988

E.T., zvoni dom’! So might have the little guy said in Moscow this week, as both “E.T.: The Extraterrestrial” and “Coming Home” were being shown in the Soviet Union as part of a project to improve understanding between the superpowers. “E.T.” made its Soviet debut Wednesday night before a select audience of 450 and, later, at an SRO showing for the general public at the 2,400-seat Oktyabr cinema, said Andrei Semenov of the Soviet Film Makers Union. Members of the Supreme Soviet, the national parliament, were invited to the first screening of the Steven Spielberg fantasy. Meanwhile, in Washington, members of Congress were watching two Soviet films that have drawn more than 2 million Soviet viewers over the past month--”The Cold Summer of ‘53” (the year of Stalin’s death) and “Commissar.”