Cast: Austin Nichols,Bruce Greenwood, Ed O'Neill, Rebecca de Mornay,Luke Perry
3 Disc Set - Wide Screen / Color
Product Details
* UPC: 883929007820
* Source: HBO HOME VIDEO
* Region Code: 1
* Presentation: Wide Screen
* Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround
* Language: English, Français, Español
* Subtitles: English, Français, Español
* Time: 10:00:00
Milch hinted that there are special features hidden for those looking for them.
Some things I know.
They were on the set in IB, so I said, “Okay, how about acting?” An illusion agreed upon - Jake a surfer, the abstract worth of fellow water walker. Everyone agreeing and seeing how that reorganized the entire show. This is the episode in which I tried - I wanted to come back to the original idea. If God were trying to make himself known with a particular urgency because the apocalypse is coming, and if the difficulty was not with his faculty of communication but rather with our capacity to understand. Who better than Jake Gyllenhaal. Fuck it got Austin out of the G-d damn trailer.
Easter Egg alert:
Megamilchfan: Disc 3
Go to menu on Disc 3 scroll down to Day 9. Enter Up arrow, left arrow, left arrow, down arrow, down again, right arrow. You see behind the scenes on set. If you look close around 2:31 you will see a door open to a trailer in the left hand corner and see the guy who plays John and somebody who looks like Jake Gyllenhaal.
AustinsHot: Disc 3
OMG! Jake Gyllenhaal! Go to main menu pick language. Highlight French. Press right arrow twice, down arrow, and enter 3x. Takes you to a street scene. Jake is in the scene! He plays a surfer guy. He is so hot. Scruffy and tired. John can't stop staring at him.
Oh by the way .... Happy April Fool's Day.
Update: Too good not to post. This is the cover of the inside slip case for the new JFC box set.
Pregnant trans man Thomas Beatie will appear on this Thursday’s Oprah, which is kind of the best thing that could ever happen to anyone trying to spread a message. [Willamette Week]
ReplyDeleteBeatie On Oprah
re: Jake confirmed on the JFC set. Wow!
ReplyDeleteHere's a question for today. Who do you think is the biggest prankster of the two?
ReplyDeleteIMHO? Jake . . .
ReplyDeleteOh if only . . . all of these Spidey rumors were true! He'd be perfect, I've been sayin' that forevah! And is he really on the JFC DVD? I loved the Liz Taylor bit from after Elton - Hi-LAR-ity on the rocks, as our friend Lyca would say!
Happy April Fool's Day, all - love today's song, btw.
Remember that body language story that was in US Weekly and then was pulled? It's back! Guess they needed something to run this week!
ReplyDeleteInteresting since the Cabo pictures that were on People last night are already gone.
ReplyDeleteUh, guys, please remember it's April Fool's Day when reading the post. Also when reading the rumors about Jake being the next Spidey.
ReplyDeleteOprah, thanks for letting us know that Thomas Beatie will be on the show on Thurs. I will be DVRing for sure! One of the comments to the link Oprah gave was from someone who claimed to know Thomas and his wife before he transitioned-
Yeah, but Robert: I knew Tracey before he was Tommie, and She did not have facial hair until she became a he. They couple were quite visible and active in Honolulu until Tommie transitioned, at which point they decided to live as a straight couple and dropped out of the gay world.
Tracey was not a hairy woman.
I would like to hear more about which communities Thomas and his wife feel part of and whether they identified as a lesbian couple before Thomas transitioned and were active in the gay community. So please cover those topics, Oprah!
Austin has a poker face, and the boy can lie like a rug. Have to say I think he is the long haul prankster. Can see him doing the set up and playing it out,binding his time.
ReplyDeleteJake is a prankster but wants the payoff quicker.
This is looking at him with adoration?! She looks like she's holding in a fart!
ReplyDeleteUh, guys, please remember it's April Fool's Day when reading the post. Also when reading the rumors about Jake being the next Spidey.
ReplyDeleteAwww Wicked, did ya have to burst my bubble? I really believe this, no, I really want this. ;)
Meanie!! :)
ReplyDeleteWhat??? you cant say that. Looks like she is holding in a fart. Good one.
ReplyDeleteI totally forgot it was April 1 until I got to the end of the post, but I knew it was just too good to be true.
ReplyDeleteI agree, Austin seems like he could really pull of a prank, I think Jake would be laughing too much. I wonder if Austin plays poker? I can picture him in Las Vegas, wearing a vest and sitting at a card table.
Very interesting about that US Weekly body language piece. Ran a bit too early, maybe?
ReplyDeleteNew short Austy vid from Wimbledon @ Spooky's.
ReplyDeleteGood catch by TMZ.
ReplyDeleteThe Ex-husband elephant in the room
Refresh the post. Just added a picture from the JFC box set.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy!
Did you pick yours up, Spesh? I just got an e-mail from Amazon saying my copy of JFC shipped today. Yay! Excellent picture addition, BTW.
ReplyDeleteGot it on my way to lunch. I am looking at Milch explaining John's speech as I eat.
ReplyDeleteMilch has them all standing around him as he is "teaching". He is something else. It does help understand the speech and the statements that Milch was trying to make with JFC.
From WFT. Anyone who can actually make it through this whole interview gets a gold star. Check out what she says about Stephen.
ReplyDeleteFrom an interview with Cantara
D: You are professionally connected with director/author Stephen Gyllenhaal through his debut poetry collection, Claptrap: Notes From Hollywood. How did the collaboration on Claptrap originate?
C: Several of Stephen’s poems came across our desk in an unsolicited manuscript three years ago, when Michael and I were working for a literary annual not our own. Although we’d been taken on as senior editors with the specific instruction to select pieces, the publisher, a volatile and unstable man according to many, vetoed all of our choices – and one of our choices was Stephen’s poetry. Well, rather than give up the cause of trying to get him published, we decided to publish him ourselves. We had just started a small book press which, like the Woolfs, we’d originally intended to use to publish just our own work and the work of friends. But Michael was very impressed with Stephen’s poetry and not a little incensed that he hadn’t already gotten more recognition for his literary talent. So we asked him, very tentatively, if he might let us have some more poetry to publish, perhaps as a limited short-run chapbook. Instead he sent us forty-six poems of remarkably high overall quality and thus it became our holy mission to deliver Claptrap to the wide world.
D: You show a deeply personal admiration for the man. Is “fascination” an appropriate term? Regardless, this is lovely evidence of your multidimensional approach to art and artists.
C: Stephen has many admirable qualities; he’s loyal, trustworthy and generous, a devoted family man and, incredibly for someone whose livelihood has been at the mercy of the Hollywood system for nearly thirty years, free of cynicism. He’s also stimulating to be around – young people are inspired by him, men are intrigued and women tend to go all gooey. I think this is because he exudes that spirit of Eros I mentioned earlier, that generative, creative force an artist is especially steeped in when he’s at the beginning of a project. In this case Stephen’s project is his own life. When his son Jake declares in an interview, “I know a man in his fifties who’s just starting to discover himself,” he’s talking about Stephen. As I say this can be very stimulating to be around but, on the down side, my dear author’s creative cauldron is almost always overflowing and, like other immensely creative people, he has trouble focusing on a single project and seeing it through to completion. A lot of this can be attributed to the business he’s in. Although he’s a mesmerizing pitcher, Hollywood hasn’t always been persuaded to let him deliver his own brand of product. To stay in the game he’s had to, as they say, keep his options open.
However, this past year or so Stephen has spoken publicly about his desire to spend his creative capital elsewhere rather than in the Hollywood system. And, in fact, quite recently he’s made some daring moves to simplify his life, to clear the decks and fully commit to work he believes in. He has not, however, completely rid himself of the influence of the business – in order to maximize its commercial potential he’ll readily simplify a wonderfully intricate, individualistic, heartfelt, well-written piece of prose – even if it’s his own. This frustrates me to no end. It’s like watching a Chippendale being whittled down into an Ikea chair. We’ve already had quite a few heated discussions (with the heat coming from me) on this subject. But I admire Stephen greatly because the artists’ dialectic, the age-old argument of material satisfaction versus the spiritual satisfaction gained from creating your art, is very much on the surface with him.
Sometimes his struggle ascends to a cosmic performance piece and that’s where it gets fascinating. Here, for example, is the real story behind that mostly improvised anecdote Jake told on Letterman: In a devastating freak fire at a vacation lodge not too long ago, Stephen had to make a split-second decision on which to rescue, his twenty thousand-dollar Rolex or the laptop containing the only copy of the manuscript of his first novel. He chose the laptop. When he does things like that I forget that I ever wanted to strangle the big lug, and fall in love with him all over again.
D: Stephen is a fine director and writer. Please share your thoughts on Stephen and his work.
C: At the very bottom rung of Stephen’s work are the television gigs that pay the bills, that paid for his daughter Maggie’s four years at Columbia, so let’s talk about them first. In an industry that eats up feature film directors left and right, Stephen is a well-known and sought-after journeyman. (Lately he seems to have found a home with the interesting puzzle-crime drama Numb3rs.) He may chafe at the limitations of the medium, but I’ve never seen a show he’s directed where there isn’t at least one “Stephen Gyllenhaal” moment, a bit of kinetic inspiration or expressive revelation. (Okay, I lie. Felicity.) Even in those Lifetime weepers with their inane scripts, Stephen displays an idiosyncratic tenderness. He even wrote a poem about his TV work called “Night Job” (written on the set of an especially inane TV movie called Time Bomb) that ends: “Negotiate. I know my job, for everything’s / negotiable and what remains is that small / moment in the hay / where I must always / give my heart away.” When I finally recognized Stephen’s name on that very first manuscript it was because of Twin Peaks, my favorite television series of all time. He’d directed the last sequential episode, and I remembered seeing his name in shocking green, wondering how to pronounce it. (It’s JILL-en-hall.)
As for his pictures, there are three theatrically-released films and one TV movie Steve himself considers his best work, A Killing in a Small Town (1990), Paris Trout (1991), Waterland (1992), and Homegrown (1998). Killing, which scandalized the execs at CBS when it was first aired, is something of a network groundbreaker, a deliciously lurid gripper involving a love triangle, hypnosis, repressed memory and a bloody ax murder. Homegrown is a low-budget black comedy about the marijuana business (enough reason for it to become a cult classic) with a screenplay co-written by Stephen, and if you ever get a chance one day, ask him about how he cast Billy Bob Thornton in the lead. Not on this list is a guilty pleasure of mine, his first film, an original screenplay B-picture called Certain Fury (1985) which has some over-the-top thrills, including a lesbian courtroom shootout scene, a drug lair lit like a fairytale cave, and the lovely shower-nude Irene Cara fighting off a hulking rapist.
Also not on this list: A Dangerous Woman (1993) which was, I suppose you’d say, loosely based on Mary McGinnis’s masterful story, but transformed into a schizophrenic piece that couldn’t tell whether it was a turgid family drama or a perverse little sex-and-violence flick; and Losing Isaiah (1995), a butchery of Seth Margolis’s fine social novel, Steve’s one and only studio project (Paramount) and the one he considers his worst artistic failure. I don’t want to go into a treatise here about film adaptations of good books, but let me point out that what made Paris Trout work – aside from Dennis Hopper’s intense performance as an unredeemable monster who guns down a mother and child – was Pete Dexter’s skilled adaptation of his own novel; what made Waterland a minor classic was the screenwriter’s sensitive rendering of the major points of narrative and emotion in this magically poignant story in a way that enabled Stephen to bring out the magic. One reviewer raved, calling it a cross between John Irving and Terry Gilliam, and in my opinion the movie is as good as the book. As with most of Stephen’s films, though, there is something rapturously alluring yet surreal, almost nightmarish, in his depictions of sex-related violence. In fact, although I’d already seen Waterland during its first run, when I saw it again last year with Steve during Cinestudio's retrospective of his work, I had to hide my face in his arm during the abortion scene.
I'll be picking up my JFC DVD some time by this weekend. Thanks for the photo preview.
ReplyDeleteBTW, another funny post. If only it were true.
"I'm pretty sure the all-knowing post by Ojai, LA/Brentwood/LA is Broadwing."... - Wicked, January 25, 2008
ReplyDeleteWicked, I was researching the Broadwing troll, and I was horrified to find this post from you a while back. This can ONLY point to the fact (before we knew that Reese had bought the house in obscure Ojai) that Reese herself or Jake himself were writing these horribly homophobic comments by Broadwing (you know - of the "fat tinhats" variety). Do you still have a record of these posts from Ojai from before it was announced that Reese/Jake were vacationing there?
If so, I am utterly disgusted with Jake Gyllenhaal. Awful, homophobic, disparaging comments to protect a false relationship. I am really so horrified. What bile.
Reese’s PR post on different forums about their phony client.
ReplyDeleteYes, but these inflammatory posts came from a very specific and remote place, Ojai.
ReplyDeleteCan I ask a technical question?
ReplyDeleteIs it possible to watch a Code 1 dvd on any laptop. Being in the UK my dvd player is code 2, so its very unlikely I'm ever going to get to see either JFC or Lenaxa (or whatever its called) as I just can't see them ever being released as code 2 dvds (EU releases). If its possible to watch code 1 dvd's on a laptop regardless of location I'll order both from the US.
Any help very much appreciated. I know this may sound mildly obsessed but I'd love to see both, I'm dying to see the full glory of JFC, not just little bits and pieces.
(oh and I'd thought about the Ojai stuff but just think it might be someone who saw Reese there sometime and thought they'd cause a bit of mischief. I might be wrong).
In Shock, you misinterpreted. The posts were not coming from Ojai, the place. The person posting that comment used the name Ojai, L.A./Brentwood/L.A. I checked Sitemeter and found the IP address that we know to belong to Broadwing was on at the same time that comment was made. Broadwing's IP address is not in California. I recognized the tone of the post as classically Broadwing's. Jake and Reese did not make those posts, nor did their PR.
ReplyDeleteMeg, this might answer your question.
ReplyDeleteThank god. I was really horrified by the implications. Thank you for clearing that up, Wicked.
ReplyDeleteAlthough, Wicked - why would they specifically choose Ojai way back in January? It seems so... obscure that they must have known something.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the info wicked.. looks like JFC is going to be purchased after all (maybe get House of Usher while I'm at it).
ReplyDeletein shock.. someone must have known something, but buying a house does take a few months so people in Ojai must have known that Reese was looking at a place.
Meg, thanks for asking my question, and thanks wicked for answering it :)
ReplyDeleteCorking pic of Austin, Spesh - you had me 'til "highlight French" :D
Wasn't Ojai discussed months and months ago on the wine trip?
Ted made me feel happy today.
Interesting!
ReplyDeleteI didn't know that
* Stephen is writing novels
* Cantara is an ex-porn star
Ah, if you didn't know the second, you're a new tb :D
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm shocked TB. lol
ReplyDeleteYou know what amazes me. On the DVD box front cover it has Rebecca, Bruce and Luke credited but no Austin.
ReplyDeleteTruly a WTF! in my best Milchian exclamation.
More on Milch's commentaries later.
Can you do the Buffalo accent, though, Spesh? :)
ReplyDeleteYeah that's old news, FAIWC! ;)
ReplyDeleteAlthough, Wicked - why would they specifically choose Ojai way back in January? It seems so... obscure that they must have known something.
ReplyDeleteThere had just been a sighting of Jeese in Ojai. Go back and read the comment and read the comment by Reality Check on 1/25/08 at 4:50pm. That is also Broadwing.
I'd say Jake and Reese went to Cabo on 24 Mar after spending Easter apart. Reese simply had to be photographed buying pigs, have Us Weekly fill in the weekend gap (adding Jake to the pig sighting and embroidering an Easter love nest story) then appear after Easter with Jake to give an impression of uninterrupted bliss.
ReplyDeletewow... that's one gorgeous picture of Austin, I mean the inside slip case one. all broad shoulders and biceps :)
ReplyDeleteRe the Body Language article - what do they make of Reese walking so far away from her man, and while he's on crutches, too? ;)
ReplyDeleteLooks like Steph has posted pics of just Reese on the beach with the kids. No Jake. Also, guess who posted in that thread? Our old friend Jack Bourassa!
ReplyDeleteAha!
ReplyDeleteMy JFC disc set just arrived from Amazon! I'm off to watch the big and huge in Cass's camera! And in John's wetsuit *wink*
Enjoy ME!
ReplyDeleteHave to say rewatching JFC is a good thing.
Still stunned how striking Austin is, but even more over his performance.
Listened to Milch's commentary. Epi 1, and off catch his commentary for Epi 10. Why? Some of his comments are totally random. Some are crude. Some make you scratch your head. Some make your eyebrows knit together and others make your mouth fall open. But definitely something you have to check out.
Damn! People get e-mails from Amazon or even their own DVDs and me? Nothing! Nada! Rien!
ReplyDeleteOk, ok, they told me my order would ship between April 1 and 3 so I guess I shouldn't be complaining... yet. And in the meantime I decided to borrow myself a special tidbit of JFC. ;)
Okay, guys, should we set a limit on the number of avatars Frenchy can have, or just let her keep going? We could have a contest to see if anybody can name all her avatars without cheating!
ReplyDeleteAt least now people will see that I'm not pregnant!
ReplyDeleteOkay, guys, should we set a limit on the number of avatars Frenchy can have,
ReplyDeleteOf course we can! Here's mine: 1,077. (April Fool!) ;D
Did I read correctly? They have a French track on the DVDs? That means I'll be able to lend it to people over here! :) :)
Yes they do Frenchy.
ReplyDeleteBoth in French and with French subtitles as well.
Okay, I'll say it. The pregnant man looks like Austin. He does!!! The English Austin is having his own Baby Tile.
ReplyDeleteI got the JFC braille version. I had to special order it and it wasn't cheap (costed about 5 times as much as the regular one) but it's worth it because I get to physically experience all the characters scenes and their reactions and touch everybody whos in it.
ReplyDeleteThat's why you haven't seen Austin around at all. I keep having to hit pause and replay certain scenes because I don't understand them. Sure is slow going, might take another 6 months to work my way thru the series.
ReplyDeleteI got the JFC braille version. I had to special order it and it wasn't cheap (costed about 5 times as much as the regular one) but it's worth it because I get to physically experience all the characters scenes and their reactions and touch everybody whos in it.
ReplyDeleteThat's a much better April Fool than mine. ;)
Clarity, I forgot to say thanks for your comments about Stop-Loss. :)
And thanks Destiny for the clarifications about Oregon. There are just too many states in the U.S. (we Canadians are much more rational than you guys in terms of numbers) and I usually mix them up when it comes to which ones are liberal vs. conservative.
Whatever else is going on Jake sure looks HOT all shirtless lounging in Mexico with those strong, tanned arms. Me likey!
ReplyDeleteLooking at the Cabo pictures, you can see that Jake not a Fake with the foot. If you notice there is a dark spot in on the inside of his ankle under the ankle joint. It looks like a bit of blood pool as opposed to bruise. That happens when you tear something you shouldn't. It does look small it looks like its on the mend.
ReplyDeleteHappy April Fool's Day
ReplyDeletePlease don't ask me to translate.
Just enjoy.
Ha Ha Ha!
ReplyDeleteBoth very cute. : )
Frenchy you beat me! I was so going to use that for a new avatar.
ReplyDeleteGossip girl, I agree, Beatie does look a little bit like Austin.
I can't wait to get JFC and hear some of the commentary, I haven't had a chance to get over to Virgin Records (yes, I'm old school, I still try to support the records stores over Amazon or big box stores like Best Buy).
Destiny, Destiny, stick around for a minute!
ReplyDeleteBe quick now and take it! It's yours!
ReplyDeleteOk frenchy, I'm taking you up on your offer and "borrowing" this for a day or two (assuming I did this right)!
ReplyDelete:-)
Actually frenchy, I think you should use the same avatar for a few days too, see if we can confuse people.
ReplyDeleteThanks Special for this great post. You had me at one point.
ReplyDeleteRight now I'm a very jealous girl; I received an e-mail from amazon to tell me that my copy from JFC would arrive around May 5th ;)
That's more than five weeks to wait...
I missed JFC when it was on cable. I was able to get a copy of episodes 1 and 2 so at least i'll be able to figure out what the shows about before I order the full DVD.
ReplyDeleteYour welcome for the review Frenchy. I'm sure word of mouth will help this movie do well.