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'Steve Jobs' plays man versus machine
Sorkin has dispensed with the traditional format of the biopic, instead framing the life of the Apple co-founder and turtle-necked tech deity in three backstage dramas ahead of major product launches:...
View ArticleA Brief History Of Steve Jobs In Film
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs became renowned for conjuring a "reality distortion field" that made people believe whatever he wanted. If he were still around, it's easy to imagine...
View ArticleSteve Jobs plays dual role of hero, villain in the movies
SAN FRANCISCO — Apple co-founder Steve Jobs became renowned for conjuring a "reality distortion field" that made people believe whatever he wanted. If he were still around, it's easy to imagine that...
View ArticleApple PR vet Andy Cunningham reviewed (and loves) 'Steve Jobs'
Editor's note: Andy Cunningham, the Silicon Valley marketing and public relations maven who helped launch the Macintosh, followed Steve Jobs to NeXT and beyond and is played in Steve Jobs by Sarah...
View ArticleWhy The Steve Jobs In Aaron Sorkin's Movie Could Never Have Saved Apple
As I left a recent screening of Aaron Sorkin and Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs, I overheard two women ahead of me on the escalator descending to the street talking about the movie. "I thought I knew a lot...
View ArticleAaron Sorkin's Silicon Valley
Aaron Sorkin doesn’t understand Silicon Valley. Counterargument: Who does? You can’t even dig deep for accurate depictions onscreen of the Bay Area tech industry. Besides The Social Network and Steve...
View ArticleThree Reasons You’ll Want To See It [Video Clip]
Steve Jobs was an enigmatic figure — was he a genius of product design, a master of the kind of manipulation colleagues called his “reality distortion field,” and/or co-creator and resurrector of...
View ArticleSteve Jobs plays role of hero, villain in the movies
San Francisco – Apple co-founder Steve Jobs became renowned for conjuring a “reality distortion field” that made people believe whatever he wanted. If he were still around, it’s easy to imagine that...
View Article'Steve Jobs' and Why Movies Can't Capture Genius
Early in Steve Jobs, the Aaron Sorkin-scripted, Danny Boyle-directed biopic about the mercurial Apple co-founder, the hero does something so right yet so peculiar that you understand why a cult sprung...
View Article'Steve Jobs' movie review: Even great filmmakers can make a boring movie
Release date: Oct. 16, 2015 Directed by: Danny Boyle Screenplay by: Aaron Sorkin Starring: Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston, and Jeff Daniels There’s...
View ArticleMichael Fassbender, Kate Winslet star in 'Steve Jobs'
STEVE JOBS' famous Reality Distortion Field, created by his feats of persuasive razzle dazzle, gets turned against him in the new movie bearing his name. The wacky, don't-call-it-a-biopic "Steve Jobs"...
View ArticleReview: Brilliant and innovative 'Steve Jobs' starring Michael Fassbender
To understand just how much of a mystery Apple founder Steve Jobs is, one only needs to look at the number of films that have tried to figure him out. There have been documentaries, one feature film...
View ArticleReview: 'Steve Jobs' plays man versus machine
When is someone going to open a window in Aaron Sorkin’s “Steve Jobs”? Alas, wrong operating system. Sorkin has dispensed with the traditional format of the biopic, instead framing the life of the...
View Article‘Steve Jobs’: A flawed visionary in three acts
When is someone going to open a window in Aaron Sorkin’s “Steve Jobs”? Alas, wrong operating system. Sorkin has dispensed with the traditional format of the biopic, instead framing the life of the...
View Article'Steve Jobs' movie review
The main complaint many have with the new ‘Steve Jobs’ film is that Michael Fassbender (12 Years a Slave) looks nothing like the Apple CEO. Granted, it is a valid point if this were a conventional...
View ArticleAaron Sorkin on bringing Steve Jobs to the big screen
The artistic success of Danny Boyle’s biographical film Steve Jobs starts with Aaron Sorkin, the Oscar-winning writer of The Social Network and multiple Emmy-winning creator and executive producer of...
View ArticleAaron Sorkin on Steve Jobs, the cult of Apple and that spat with Tim Cook
LONDON — Aaron Sorkin was “terrified” at the prospect of taking on the life of Steve Jobs for his latest movie — for several reasons. Firstly, he's always scared of new projects, he told Mashable in a...
View ArticleFriends and Family Dislike 'Caricature' Portrayal in 'Steve Jobs'
Daniel Kottke knew Steve Jobs before he was Steve Jobs. It was 1972 when Kottke met the future tech icon at Reed College in Portland, Ore. Both young men shared enthusiasm for Eastern philosophy, Bob...
View ArticleSteve Wozniak: Shocked and amazed by Steve Jobs movie
Image copyright Universal Pictures Image caption Steve Jobs is played by Michael Fassbender in the movie Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak has given his first in-depth interview about the forthcoming...
View ArticleNew 'Steve Jobs' trailer shows the three faces of Apple founder
Michael Fassbender is in belligerent form in the new extended trailer for the keynote-focused biopic. by July 1, 2015 9:36 AM PDT facebook twitter linkedin googleplus email more reddit pinterest tumblr...
View Article'Steve Jobs' trailer: Sorkin, Fassbender search for core of Apple founder
With all the carefully managed hype of an Apple product launch, Universal Pictures has unveiled the latest trailer for "Steve Jobs," offering a clearer look at Michael Fassbender in action as the late...
View ArticleCINEMA: Not quite the perfect job
TO be honest, I may not the best person to review Jobs the film, simply because I am not really a fan of Jobs the person. You see, of all the tech wizards of our time, I look up to the guy whom the...
View Article4 things that helped make Steve Jobs so successful
NEW DELHI: A vegan college dropout who took acid and traveled to India for spiritual enlightenment, Steve Jobs was the greatest businessman in history. But Jobs's ascent was neither simple nor...
View Article>How Billionaire Marc Benioff Becomes 'Yoda' To His Employees (And You Can,...
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs isn't the only person with a "reality distortion field" able to charm people into doing things they thought were impossible. His dear friend, Marc Benioff, cofounder and CEO...
View ArticleHow Billionaire Marc Benioff Becomes 'Yoda' To His Employees (And You Can,...
Apple cofounder Steve Jobs isn't the only person with a "reality distortion field" able to charm people into doing things they thought were impossible. His dear friend, Marc Benioff, cofounder and CEO...
View ArticleChristian Bale to Play Steve Jobs? David Fincher Has His Heart Set on It
If at first Ashton Kutcher doesn’t succeed at playing Steve Jobs, try again — with an Oscar winner. Christian Bale is director David Fincher's choice to play the Apple cofounder in the Sony biopic,...
View ArticleThe Brilliant Failure of Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs, which I've seen three times now, is a curious and entertaining film. Until recently seen as a top Oscar favorite, it's also proved to be a shocking box office bomb, falling away to...
View ArticleMichael Fassbender talks 'Steve Jobs,' iPhones and working naked
Every time Michael Fassbender talks about his iPhone -- and, since he's playing Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the audacious biopic "Steve Jobs," the subject comes up now and then -- Fassbender...
View ArticleApple execs don't want you to believe Steve Jobs' own memories of himself
A plastic facsimile of the young Steve Jobs, created by a Japanese toy company. Jony Ive's opinion of the new Steve Jobs movie — it's "ridiculous" and "sad," and has "hijacked" the legacy of his late...
View ArticleSteve Jobs: the afterlife
Since Steve Jobs’s death from cancer in 2011, the myths keep accumulating. Tim Adams assesses his legacy and speaks to Danny Boyle and Alex Gibney, directors of two new films – one a drama, the other a...
View ArticleHow Apple's Launch Event Distorted Reality — Again
CUPERTINO, California — Abandon objectivity, all ye who enter an Apple product launch event. "Reality distortion field" is a phrase long associated with this company, and with good reason. It goes back...
View ArticleAs 'Steve Jobs,' Michael Fassbender learned it's all about control
Every time Michael Fassbender talks about his iPhone — and, since he played Apple co-founder Steve Jobs in the audacious biopic "Steve Jobs," the subject comes up now and then these days — the...
View ArticleJobs well done: portraying the Apple legend on screen
From the polo necks to the product launches, Steve Jobs remains an enduring myth. Director Danny Boyle and stars Michael Fassbender and Kate Winslet on the making of their new biopic...
View ArticleSteve Jobs and his secret life as a Zen Buddhist
Jobs believed that Zen meditation taught him to concentrate and ignore distractions. He also learned to trust intuition and curiosity — what Buddhists call "beginner's mind"— over analysis and...
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