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Aaron Sorkin - Steve Jobs at London Film Festival - LFF Instants | BFI London Film Festival

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Channel: BFI · 2015 · Film & Animation

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The 59th BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express® runs from Wednesday 7 October-Sunday 18 October 2015. Get immersed in the best of the world's new cinema in venues and events across London, featuring the stars and creators of the films!
The Festival opened with "Suffragette" (starring Carey Mulligan, Helena Bonham Carter and Meryl Streep), and will close with Steve Jobs (starring Michael Fassbender).

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Director Danny Boyle
Producers Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady, Scott Rudin, Danny Boyle, Christian Colson
Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin
With Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Jeff Daniels, Michael Stuhlbarg, Katherine Waterston
USA 2015
122 mins
UK distribution Universal Pictures

With Danny Boyle’s exhilarating direction, Aaron Sorkin’s incisive screenplay, and Michael Fassbender’s scorching performance, Steve Jobs is virtuosic filmmaking – cinema at its most dynamic and transportive. Working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography and employing a wholly innovative narrative structure built around three seminal product launches – the Macintosh in 1984, the NeXT Cube in 1988, and the iMac in 1998 – Boyle’s film is the enthralling story of the iconoclast at the epicentre of the digital revolution. Sorkin (The Social Network, Moneyball) has delivered both a portrait of a heretofore unknowable protagonist, and a penetrating look at what it takes to create change – in Jobs’ case, change so ground-breaking it would revolutionise how we communicate with one another. These product launches are the high-stakes settings that illuminate Jobs’ world – through rapid-fire dialogue and spur-of-the-moment decision-making, with his perfect foil: marketing chief of Macintosh, Joanna Hoffman (Kate Winslet). The furious pace, switching between public and personal spheres, also works as a constant reminder of the competing demands on Jobs’ world, and the impact these have on his interactions with fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), Apple CEO John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), and Jobs’ ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston). Fassbender’s intelligence and kinetic energy magnify the brilliance of the man and highlight his foibles and insecurities, while Winslet is riveting as Hoffman, the woman who not only matches Jobs’ pace but challenges him in the ways no one else will or can. Boyle returns to close the Festival for the third time – following Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and 127 Hours (2010) – with a film that is as breathtaking and daring in its form as it is brilliant and thrilling in its portrayal of one of the most transformative figures of our times.

Aaron Sorkin - Steve Jobs at London Film Festival - LFF Instants | BFI London Film Festival

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