03 Sep Indiewire Weighs In: 15 Films You Won’t Want to Miss
Indiewire previewed these fall film and has selected “The 15 Films We’ve Already Seen (And You Won’t Want to Miss). A number of which are on the program for the 42nd annual Telluride Film Festival, including “Steve Jobs,” “Carol,” “Son of Saul.”
“Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine” (September 4)
Before Danny Boyle and Michael Fassbender put their narrative spin on the life of the Apple co-founder in October’s awards player “Steve Jobs,” documentarian Alex Gibney gets there first in his pensive and exhilarating documentary, “The Man in the Machine.” Taking a nod from “Citizen Kane,” Gibney grounds his investigation of Jobs in a profoundly simple question — why was Jobs so incredibly mourned after his death? — and he finds the answer in a handful of startling interviews from some of his closest confidants. The end results paint a definitive portrait of man of contradictions and speak directly to our consumer age of technological Apple worship. Fans of Jobs and readers of Walter Isaacson’s biography may know much of the story, but Gibney gives it a refreshing cinematic order that makes it as mysterious as it is thrilling.
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