''Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview'' is a documentary released to theaters in 2012. It consists of the original 70 minute interview that

Steve Jobs Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American entrepreneur, industrial designer, media proprietor, and investor. He was the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Apple; the chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar; a ...

gave to

Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely is the pen name of both technology journalist Mark Stephens and a string of writers for a column in ''InfoWorld'', the one-time weekly computer trade newspaper published by IDG. InfoWorld Mark Stephens was the third author t ...

in 1995 for the PBS documentary, ''

Triumph of the Nerds ''Triumph of the Nerds'' is a 1996 British/American television documentary, produced by John Gau Productions and Oregon Public Broadcasting for Channel 4 and PBS. It explores the development of the personal computer in the United States from Wor ...

''.

Background

The original interview that Jobs gave to Cringely for ''Triumph of the Nerds'' lasted about 70 minutes. Of those 70 minutes, only about 10 were used in ''Triumph of the Nerds.'' When Jobs gave this interview in 1995, he was still "two years away from retaking the Chief Executive role at Apple and beginning a run that would transform the Cupertino, Calif.-based Mac maker from loser to leader in the digital economy. At the time of the interview Jobs was one such loser himself: his company, NeXT was stumbling, and rival Bill Gates had taken Apple's ideas and used them to seize control of the personal computer industry." According to Cringely the original D1 video tape master was lost in shipping in 1995. When Steve Jobs died in 2011, ''Triumph of the Nerds'' director Paul Sen found in his garage a PAL VHS copy of the original unedited interview. Sen informed Cringely that he found this copy and discussed the possibility of releasing it as an independent film. Cringely then contacted Landmark Theatres co-owner Mark Cuban to see if a screening would be possible. Dubbed ''The Lost Interview,'' the 70 minute interview screened at 17 theaters around the United States and was later released on DVD in 2012.

Critical response

''The Lost Interview ''received a 100% rating from Rotten Tomatoes (6 ''fresh'' reviews). Robert Koehler of '' Variety'' describes it as Jobs at "40, and with an outlook of observing Apple from afar (he had been booted out of the company by Sculley a decade prior and had subsequently founded NeXT)." He is thus "able to bring a perspective he couldn’t have provided at a younger age. Moreover, this p.o.v. icwouldn’t have been possible soon after the interview, since Jobs sold NeXT to Apple six months later and became Apple CEO a year after that."

Roger Ebert Roger Joseph Ebert (; June 18, 1942 – April 4, 2013) was an American film critic, film historian, journalist, screenwriter, and author. He was a film critic for the ''Chicago Sun-Times'' from 1967 until his death in 2013. In 1975, Ebert beca ...

gave it three stars and noted that "it's raw material for a film, in the form of Jobs speaking in close-up. It's a tribute to the singular popularity of Steve Jobs that he's probably the only talking head people would pay to watch for more than an hour."

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