DJANGO UNCHAINED (2012)

Written &Directed By: Quentin Tarantino
Cinematography By: Robert Richardson
Editor: Fred Raskin

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Walter Goggins, Don Johnson, Jonah Hill, Dennis Christopher, Zoe Bell, James Remar, Franco Nero, James Russo, Tom Wopat, Michael Bowen, Tom Savini, M.C. Gainey, Robert Carradine,John Jarratt, Bruce Dern, Michael Parks, Quentin Tatrantino, Russ Tamblyn, Amber Tamblyn

I THINK I LOVE MY WIFE (2007)

Directed By: Chris Rock
Written By: Chris Rock & Louis C.K.
Based On The Screenplay for “CHLOE IN THE AFTERNOON” By: Eric Rohmer
Cinematography By: William Rexer
Editor: Wendy Greene Bricmont

Cast: Chris Rock, Kerry Washington, Gina Torres, Steve Buscemi, Michael Kenneth Williams, Edward Herrmann, Wendell Pierce, Roz Ryan, Ian Brennan, Matthew Morrison, Eva Pigford, Christina Vidal, Eliza Coupe, Orlando Jones

I'M GONNA GIT YOU SUCKA (1988)

Written &Directed By: Keenan Ivory Wayans
Cinematography By: Tom Richmond
Editor: Michael R. Miller

Cast: Keenan Ivory Wayans, Dawnn Lewis, Bernie Casey, Antonio Fargas, Steve James, Jim Brown, Issac Hayes, Ja’net Dubois, Damon Wayans, Kadeem Hardison, Anne-Marie Johnson, Gary Owens, Eve Plumb, John Witherspoon, David Alan Grier, Hawthorne James, Ariana Richards, Clu Gulager, John Vernon, Clarence Williams III, Kim Wayans, Robin Harris, Tony Cox, Chris Rock

WHY DID I GET MARRIED (2007)

Written & Directed By: Tyler Perry
Cinematography By: Toyomichi Kurita
Editor: Maysie Hoy

Cast: Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, Sharon Leal, Jill Scott, Tasha Smith, Michael Jai White, Malik Yoba, Richard T. Jones, Lamman Rucker

BAD COMPANY (2002)

Directed By: Joel Schumacher
Written By: Jason Richman & Michael Browning
Story By: Gary M. Goodman & David Himmelstein
Cinematography By: Dariusz Wolski
Editor: Mark Goldblatt & Robert K. Lambert

Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Chris Rock, Peter Stomare, Brooke Smith, Gabriel Macht, Kerry Washington, Garcelle Beauvais, John Slattery, Irma P. Hall, Michael Ealy, Daniel Sunjata

MADEA GOES TO JAIL (2009)

Written & Directed By: Tyler Perry
Cinematography By: Alexander Gruszynski
Editor: Maysie Hoy

Cast: Tyler Perry, Derek Luke, Keisha Knight Pulliam, David Mann, Pamela J. Mann, Ronreaco Lee, Ion Overman, Vanessa Ferlito, Viola Davis, Sofia Vegara

HOUSEGUEST (1995)

Directed By: Randall Miller
Written By: Michael J. Di Gaetano & Lawrence Gay
Cinematography By: Jerry Zielinski
Editor: Eric Sears

Cast: Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Kim Griest, Jeffrey Jones, Chauncy Leopardi, Kim Murphy, Stan Shaw, Paul Ben-Victor, Tony Longo, Ron Glass

JEFF'S OSCAR BALLOT

Best Picture Amour Margaret Menegoz, Stefan Arndt, Veit Heiduschka and Michael Katz, Producers Argo Grant Heslov, Ben Affleck and George Clooney, Producers Beasts of the Southern Wild Dan Janvey, Josh Penn and Michael Gottwald, Producers Django Unchained Stacey Sher, Reginald Hudlin and Pilar Savone, Producers Life of Pi Gil Netter, Ang Lee and David Womark, Producers Lincoln Steven Spielberg and Kathleen Kennedy, Producers Silver Linings Playbook Donna Gigliotti, Bruce Cohen and Jonathan Gordon, Producers Zero Dark Thirty Mark Boal, Kathryn Bigelow and Megan Ellison, Producers Les Misérables Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward and Cameron Mackintosh, Producers MY PICK : BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED - PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, MOONRISE KINGDOM Best Actor - in a Leading Role Bradley Cooper - Silver Linings Playbook Daniel Day-Lewis - Lincoln Hugh Jackman - Les Misérables Joaquin Phoenix - The Master Denzel Washington - Flight MY PICK: JOAQUIN PHOENIX -THE MASTER BEST Actress - in a Leading Role Jessica Chastain - Zero Dark Thirty Jennifer Lawrence - Silver Linings Playbook Emmanuelle Riva - Amour Quvenzhané Wallis - Beasts of the Southern Wild Naomi Watts - The Impossible MY PICK: JENNIFER LAWRENCE - SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK BEST Actor - in a Supporting Role Alan Arkin - Argo Robert De Niro - Silver Linings Playbook Philip Seymour Hoffman - The Master Tommy Lee Jones - Lincoln Christoph Waltz - Django Unchained MY PICK: PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN - THE MASTER SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: JASON CLARKE - ZERO DARK THIRTY BEST Actress - in a Supporting Role Amy Adams - The Master Sally Field - Lincoln Anne Hathaway - Les Misérables Helen Hunt - The Sessions Jacki Weaver - Silver Linings Playbook MY PICK: ANNE HATHAWAY - LES MISERABLES BEST Animated Feature Film Brave - Mark Andrews and Brenda Chapman Frankenweenie - Tim Burton ParaNorman - Sam Fell and Chris Butler The Pirates! Band of Misfits - Peter Lord Wreck-It Ralph - Rich Moore MY PICK: WRECK IT RALPH BEST Cinematography Anna Karenina Seamus McGarvey Django Unchained Robert Richardson Life of Pi Claudio Miranda Lincoln Janusz Kaminski Skyfall Roger Deakins MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Costume Design Anna Karenina- Jacqueline Durran Les Misérables - Paco Delgado Lincoln - Joanna Johnston Mirror Mirror - Eiko Ishioka Snow White and the Huntsman -Colleen Atwood MY PICK: ANNA KARENINA BEST Directing Amour - Michael Haneke Beasts of the Southern Wild - Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi - Ang Lee Lincoln - Steven Spielberg Silver Linings Playbook - David O. Russell MY PICK: ANG LEE BEST Documentary Feature 5 Broken Cameras Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh, Philippa Kowarsky and Estelle Fialon. How to Survive a Plague David France and Howard Gertler The Invisible War Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Searching for Sugar Man Malik Bendjelloul and Simon Chinn MY PICK: HOW TO SURVIVE A PLAGUE (Surprisingly the hardest category) BEST Documentary Short Inocente Sean Fine and Andrea Nix Fine Kings Point Sari Gilman and Jedd Wider Mondays at Racine Cynthia Wade and Robin Honan Open Heart Kief Davidson and Cori Shepherd Stern Redemption Jon Alpert and Matthew O'Neill MY PICK: OPEN HEART Film Editing Argo William Goldenberg Life of Pi Tim Squyres Lincoln Michael Kahn Silver Linings Playbook Jay Cassidy and Crispin Struthers Zero Dark Thirty Dylan Tichenor and William Goldenberg MY PICK: LIFE OF PI Foreign Language Film Amour - Austria Kon-Tiki - Norway No - Chile A Royal Affair - Denmark War Witch - Canada MY PICK: AMOUR BEST Makeup and Hairstyling Hitchcock Howard Berger, Peter Montagna and Martin Samuel The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Swords King, Rick Findlater and Tami Lane Les Misérables Lisa Westcott and Julie Dartnell MY PICK: THE HOBBITT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY BEST Music - Original Score Anna Karenina Dario Marianelli Argo Alexandre Desplat Life of Pi Mychael Danna Lincoln John Williams Skyfall Thomas Newman MY PICK: LIFE OF PI SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD BEST Music - Original Song "Before My Time" from Chasing Ice - Music and Lyric by J. Ralph "Everybody Needs A Best Friend" from Ted - Music by Walter Murphy; Lyric by Seth MacFarlane "Pi's Lullaby" from Life of Pi - Music by Mychael Danna; Lyric by Bombay Jayashri "Skyfall" from Skyfall - Music and Lyric by Adele Adkins and Paul Epworth "Suddenly" from Les Misérables - Music by Claude-Michel Schönberg; Lyric by Herbert Kretzmer and Alain Boublil MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Production Design Anna Karenina - Sarah Greenwood (Production Design); Katie Spencer (Set Decoration) The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey - Dan Hennah (Production Design); Ra Vincent and Simon Bright (Set Decoration) Les Misérables - Eve Stewart (Production Design); Anna Lynch-Robinson (Set Decoration) Life of Pi - David Gropman (Production Design); Anna Pinnock (Set Decoration) Lincoln - Rick Carter (Production Design); Jim Erickson (Set Decoration) MY PICK: LINCOLN BEST Short Film - Animated Adam and Dog Minkyu Lee Fresh Guacamole PES Head over Heels Timothy Reckart and Fodhla Cronin O'Reilly Maggie Simpson in "The Longest Daycare" David Silverman Paperman John Kahrs MY PICK: PAPERMAN BEST Short Film -Live Action Asad Bryan Buckley and Mino Jarjoura Buzkashi Boys Sam French and Ariel Nasr Curfew Shawn Christensen Death of a Shadow (Dood van een Schaduw) Tom Van Avermaet and Ellen De Waele Henry Yan England MY PICK: BUZKASHI BOYS Sound Editing Argo Erik Aadahl and Ethan Van der Ryn Django Unchained Wylie Stateman Life of Pi Eugene Gearty and Philip Stockton Skyfall Per Hallberg and Karen Baker Landers Zero Dark Thirty Paul N.J. Ottosson MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Sound Mixing Argo John Reitz, Gregg Rudloff and Jose Antonio Garcia Les Misérables Andy Nelson, Mark Paterson and Simon Hayes Life of Pi Ron Bartlett, D.M. Hemphill and Drew Kunin Lincoln Andy Nelson, Gary Rydstrom and Ronald Judkins Skyfall Scott Millan, Greg P. Russell and Stuart Wilson MY PICK: SKYFALL BEST Visual Effects The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Joe Letteri, Eric Saindon, David Clayton and R. Christopher White Life of Pi Bill Westenhofer, Guillaume Rocheron, Erik-Jan De Boer and Donald R. Elliott Marvel's The Avengers Janek Sirrs, Jeff White, Guy Williams and Dan Sudick Prometheus Richard Stammers, Trevor Wood, Charley Henley and Martin Hill Snow White and the Huntsman Cedric Nicolas-Troyan, Philip Brennan, Neil Corbould and Michael Dawson MY PICK: PROMETHEUS BEST Writing - Adapted Screenplay Argo - Written by Chris Terrio Beasts of the Southern Wild - Screenplay by Lucy Alibar & Benh Zeitlin Life of Pi - Written by David Magee Lincoln - Written by Tony Kushner Silver Linings Playbook - Written by David O. Russell MY PICK: SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK SHOULD HAVE BEEN NOMINATED: PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER BEST Writing - Original Screenplay Amour - Written by Michael Haneke Django Unchained - Written by Quentin Tarantino Flight - Written by John Gatins Moonrise Kingdom - Written by Wes Anderson & Roman Coppola Zero Dark Thirty - Written by Mark Boal MY PICK: DJANGO UNCHAINED

UNFINISHED BUSINESS (ROUGH CUTS) EMOTIONAL MOVIES

COFFY (1973)

Written & Directed By: Jack Hill Cinematography By: Paul Lohmann Editor: Charles McCleehand Cast: Pam Grier, Booker Bradshaw, Sid haig, Allan Arbus, Barry Cahill, William Elliott, Linda Haynes, Bob Minor, Robert Boqui

PANTHER (1995)

Directed By: Mario Van Peebles Written By: Melvin Van Peebles (Based On His Novel) Cinematography By: Edward J. Pei Editor: Kevin Lindstrom & Earl Watson Cast: Kadeem Hardison, Bokeem Woodbine, Marcus Chong, Courtney B, Vance, Joe Don Baker, Tyrin Turner, Bobby Brown, Chris Rock, Angela Bassett, Jenifer Lewis, Dick Gregory, James Russo, M. Emmet Walsh, Roger Guenveur Smith, Michael Wincott, Richard Dysart, Mark Curry, James LeGros, Chris Tucker, Mario Van Peebles, Melvin Van Peebles, Wesley Jonathan, Kool Moe Dee, Lahmard J. Tate

POSSE (1993)

Directed By: Mario Van Peebles Written By: Sy Ricahrdson & Dario Scardapane Cinematography By: Peter Menzies Jr. Editor: Mark Conte & Seth Flaum Cast: Mario Van Peebles, Stephen Baldwin, Tommy “Tiny” Lister, Billy Zane, Richard Jordan, Tone Loc, Big Daddy Kane, Pam Grier, Blair UnderWood, Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Charles Lane, Melvin Van Peebles, Vesta Williams

BUSTIN' LOOSE (1981)

Directed By: Oz Scott & Michael Schultz (Uncredited) Story By: Richard Pryor Adaptation: Lonnie Elder III Written By: Roger L. Simon Cinematography By: Dennis Delzell Editor: David Holden, Skip Lusk & Harry Keramides Cast: Richard Pryor, Cicely Tyson, Paul Mooney, Roger Christian, Earl Billings

JEFF OF THE CINEFILES: HALL OF FAME: FILE # 0023: EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (2010)

Directed By: Banksy Editor: Tom Fulford & Chris King Narrated By: Rhys Ifans

CHARLIE WILSON'S WAR (2007)

Directed By: Mike Michols Written By: Aaron Sorkin Based On the book By: George Crile Cinematography By: Stephen Goldblatt Editor: John Bloom & Antonia Van Drimmelen Cast: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, John Slattery, Emily Blunt, Rachel Nichols, Shiri Appleby, Ned Beatty, Om Purri, Denis O’Hare.

HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER (1973)

Directed By: Clint Eastwood Written By: Ernest Tidyman Cinematography By: Bruce Surtees Editor: Ferris Webster Cast: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Geoffrey Lewis, Marianna Hall, Billy Curtis (!-- more --> A stranger rides out of the hot desert into a small town in the wild west. The towns people are scared of him, and 3 gunmen try, unsuccessfully, to kill him. He takes a room and decides to stay. Meanwhile, a group of outlaws are about to return to the town and take their revenge - will the towns leaders convince the mysterious man to help ? One of the first few westerns Clint Eastwood is in that I really enjoyed and liked. I surprisingly liked this a lot better than I did most of THE MAN WITH NO NAME TRILOGY. Though here his character doesn’t really have one either. One of the headstones in the graveyard bears the name Sergio Leone as a tribute. The film begins with a spectacular gunfight. Then out of nowhere Clint Eastwood rapes a woman, but then she seems to enjoy it. (Remember he’s the hero) Then throughout the film. Her character keeps flip flopping between hating him and loving him and in another scene a different female character tries to kill him with scissors, He stops her then all of a sudden they kiss and then make love. It’s strange and made it seem like that was the only reason to have females in the film. That is truly the only weakness of the film. I guess in trying to make it an ultra man’s man film. To make his character sensitive and yet savage to a point. The other weakness is it’s predictability which still even though I know where it was going.I was shocked a bit, but still thoroughly enjoyed. Here I can see why Clint Eastwood is an icon. In this film he is dirty, dangerous, Tough and smart, but has a sensitive side. He never shows it physically and if he does. Only around women he trusts. Universal Pictures wanted the film to be shot on the studio lot. Instead, Clint Eastwood had a whole town built in the desert near Mono Lake in the California Sierras. Many of the buildings were complete and three-dimensional, so that interiors could be shot on location. The film even has a little person as his deputy after he is appointed Marshall of the town. The first time Clint Eastwood directed one of his Westerns. I like that the film turns it’s tables making you wonder who is more evil. The evil person who admits it or the person who commits evil acts, but claims to have done it for good reasons and the good of others. Though defining themselves as a good person. The film starts out with us feeling sympathy for those town people and liking them, but by the end through there own actions showing them as truly evil and cowardly. And not knowing if we don’t want to see them massacred. Shortly after the film's release, Clint Eastwood wrote to John Wayne, suggesting that they make a western together. Wayne sent back an angry letter in reply, in which he denounced this film for its violence and revisionist portrayal of the Old West. Eastwood did not bother to answer his criticisms, and consequently they did not work together The only person we root for besides committing the rape which paints him as evil also Personally though the film doesn’t seem to think so. is Clint Eastwood and his deputy are the only one’s with their heads on seemingly straight. O.k. and the hotel owners wife. It’s a must see. I’m not the biggest western fan. I flirt with admiration with the genre, but tend to only like really good ones and feel if it’s just ok, It’s a waste of my time. So me giving this film high marks shows at least to me how special this film is. GRADE: A-

BLAST FROM THE PAST: NOSTALGIA REVIEWS: SECRET ADMIRER (1985)

Directed By: David Greenwalt Written By: David Greenwalt & Jim Kouf Cinematography By: Victor J. Kemper Editor: Dennis Virkler Cast: C. Thomas Howell, Kelly Preston, Lori Loughlin, Cliff De Young, Courtney Gains, Dee Wallace, Leigh Taylor-Young, Fred Ward, Corey Haim, Doug Savant, Casey Siemaszko

MOVIES WATCHED IN JANUARY 2013