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Last week's trailer selection was a cornucopia of different styles and genres: A new Pixar offering, some TV bait from Fargo, and—of course—that beautiful new clip from the upcoming Bond film Spectre. This week, however, is starting out with more of the same. Just a few weeks after the trailer for the Danny Boyle-directed Steve Jobs dropped, we now have a teaser for the documentary Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine. Check out that trailer below, and here's hoping the rest of this week offers a little more variety.
It's the Hollywood rule of pairs: Deep Impact and Armageddon in 1998, Dante's Peak and Volcano in 1997, Fail Safe and Dr. Strangelove in 1964, and now Steve Jobs and Steve Jobs in 2015. Both movies will come out this fall. Both will tell the tale of the mythic man behind Apple, and both come to us from the hands of big time, Academy Award-winning directors. But where Danny Boyle's narrative feature about the turtlenecked one will be animated with a Sorkinese lilt, Alex Gibney's documentary will deal in cold, hard facts. Neither Apple's board of directors nor Jobs' wife Laurene Powell agreed to participate in the film, and considering Gibney specializes in takedowns of All Mighty institutions (Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief, Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room), this is probably going to make Jobs look... pretty bad. Perhaps not unfairly—we didn't know the guy, after all—but if you just want to see a nice movie about a luminary and titan of industry, this movie probably won't satisfy you. Just consider it all a part of your balanced Jobs diet.
Pause at: 0:27 for hunky Jobs. Baby Jobs at 1:36.
Essential Quote: "His stuff was beloved, but it wasn't that he was beloved."
