dvd of the week
Michael Fassbender was nominated for an Oscar playing Apple founder Steve Jobs, who is on screen at virtually every moment in the film written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle. Few of his dialogue partners – played by Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen and Jeff Daniels, among others – are ever on screen with each other. It feels very much like a beautifully filmed play; intense and cerebral but also claustrophobic. It is the series of one-on-one conversations that both tell us Jobs’ biographical details and show us his relationships with colleagues, friends and family, explaining his drive, his genius and his failures as a friend and father.
