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'Lost' 70-minute interview with Steve Jobs coming to select theaters in November

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Isn't this taking the Steve worship just a wee bit too far?

Too far. People think that by watching Jobs interviews their gonna learn the secrets of a master guru. Geez, for that matter better watch documentaries on the Dalai Lama.

Sony is reportedly looking into producing a film based on the book. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin, who wrote the script for Academy Award-winning "The Social Network," is said to have been approached regarding the project.

I was waiting for a "Social Network"-esque movie announcement. This is the first hint. When I said that people would be reacting to Steve's death for weeks and weeks when the news broke my classmates didn't believe me.

This movie would be extremely hard to execute accurately, at least much more so than a movie about Facebook, which is barely historical. Granted it can't be worse than "Pirates of Silicon Valley." I wish people would just settle down with the tributes.

I am a self confessed Apple fanboy, but I have no desire at all to pay to watch this in a theater. Hideous visual quality aside(remember it is restored from a VHS) it seems all but certain there's nothing in this I didn't already learn in the book. I might Netflix it if and when it's available but I'm not going to spend money for this.

As much interest as there is in Steve and as interesting as his interviews typically are, I don't think there is a market for showing this in theaters for a fee. It's not really clear which crass business person is behind this. If it was truly PBS, I doubt this would be the way it would be brought to the public.

It's Cringely:

After Jobs died, Sen went looking for the interview because he thought it would be interesting to watch. He dropped Cringely a line telling him of his find and suggested that perhaps Cringely could put it on his technology blog I Cringely as a "gift to the world."

"He didn't see any commercial value in it," Cringely said. "I have three kids I have to put through college, so I thought maybe we could sell it."

http://www.latimes.com/news/la-mobile-steve-jobs-lost-interv...

Are you kidding? They're airing an hour-long VHS tape in theaters? Even animated movies are longer than that.

And when they don't make any money, they'll blame the pirates.

wow, who in their right mind would pay to go to that?

Here's 50 mins of it: http://9to5mac.com/2011/11/04/a-incredible-50-minute-steve-j...

That's an earlier interview. Parts of the 1995 interview that is planned to be shown in theaters, can seen here http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221185/Video_Steve_J...

Is this the video? http://osxdaily.com/2011/11/01/steve-jobs-interview-from-199... it's complete there.

Anybody know which theaters this will be released in?

There's a list of theaters in the linked source article:

http://moviecitynews.com/2011/11/steve-jobs-the-lost-intervi...

The Landmark site also has specific showtimes per-theater:

http://www.landmarktheatres.com/Films/films_frameset.asp?id=...

This is the full interview video: http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/11/02/watch-steve-jobs-disc...

edit:

It was watchable a week ago, but now you have to register I guess?

I think you can view it in segments here without an account: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9221185/Video_Steve_J...

I'm not sure if it's the whole thing or not.

The video is no longer available. I'm assuming the copyright holder has pulled it.

I don't think that's the same video that Cringely is releasing.

Why do you say that? They're both from the same year and nearly the same length.

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