What would you do if you discovered a 70-minute Steve Jobs interview that only a few people on earth have ever seen in its entirety? You’d try to make a few bucks off of it, right? Well, a lost Steve Jobs interview has been discovered by a documentary filmmaker; it goes without saying that the documentary will be coming to a theater near you in the middle of this month. It’s called “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview,” and in it, the long-haired computer salesman reveals his feelings on Microsoft, his firing from Apple Computers, and everything in between while letting down some of his carefully-cultivated public persona (probably because this is before he discovered his persona).
The interview was conducted with Jobs in 1996, shortly after his 1995 firing from Apple Computers. Pre-iPad and iPhone, Jobs here is described as “a cranky guy” by writer/producer Robert Cringley, who interviewed Jobs for the documentary “Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires” for PBS. The interview was lost until Robert Sen, the film’s director, found a VHS dub of the 70-minute interview in his garage. That’s when Landmark Theaters stepped in, optioning the documentary interview and splashing it up on the big screen!
Landmark will be screening “Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview” in their theaters in 19 cities on November 16 and 17. For more information, or to find your closest Landmark Theater, click here.
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