Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview will get special showings in Landmark Theatres around the country tonight and Thursday night, including Metro Cinemas in Seattle, which has showings at 7:15 and 9 p.m. both nights.

The film was created from recovered footage of Robert Cringely’s 1995 interview with Jobs for the PBS documentary, Triumph of the Nerds — providing a glimpse of the Apple co-founder during his time in exile from the company.

The interview is famous for Jobs’ comment about Microsoft having “no taste,” which made it into the documentary, but the hour-long film delves into many other topics. From the description …

Jobs talks about his pioneering days with Steve Wozniak, and how they assembled the first Apple computer and went on to found the Apple company. Jobs recalls the visits he made to Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and how it inspired the making of the Macintosh, the world’s first modern PC, when he was “on a mission from God to save Apple.” He talks frankly and sadly about his enforced departure from Apple and explains what he is doing at Next. Finally in spell-binding terms, he offers his vision of a digital future—a world of wonderful products created by artists and poets. Steve Jobs: the Lost Interview reveals the burning passion of Steve Jobs, a passion that would go on to give us the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad.

Linda Thomas of 97.3 KIRO-FM has an interesting interview with Cringley, including the back story on a phone call in which Jobs and Bill Gates discussed the “no taste” comment.

The L.A. Times has the story of how the movie happened. 

As the Village Voice puts it, “Go see Steve Jobs: The Lost Interview, if only for the fact that Jobs would think updating a 16-year-old interview from a dead medium to a dying medium would be the dumbest thing in the world.”

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