Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman brings this director to Cannes for the first time since 1991, when he was at the festival
with Jungle Fever.
Not exact matches
There's Debi Mazar of «
Jungle Fever», as the girl that Tommy passes out
with before they can even leave the bar together; Mark Boone Junior as a bar regular, and Ezter Balint of Stranger than Paradise as his frustrated wife Marie.
With his starring role in Lee's 1991 Jungle Fever, Snipes won critical praise and increased his audience exposure, and his career duly took off.That same year, Snipes further demonstrated his flexibility with disparate roles in New Jack City, in which he played a volatile drug lord, and The Waterdance, in which he starred as a former wild man repenting for his ways in a hospital's paraplegic w
With his starring role in Lee's 1991
Jungle Fever, Snipes won critical praise and increased his audience exposure, and his career duly took off.That same year, Snipes further demonstrated his flexibility
with disparate roles in New Jack City, in which he played a volatile drug lord, and The Waterdance, in which he starred as a former wild man repenting for his ways in a hospital's paraplegic w
with disparate roles in New Jack City, in which he played a volatile drug lord, and The Waterdance, in which he starred as a former wild man repenting for his ways in a hospital's paraplegic ward.
First coming to prominence
with roles in Spike Lee's Mo» Better Blues and
Jungle Fever, Snipes went on to prove himself as an actor who could appeal to audiences as a man that women want and men want to be.Born in Orlando, FL, on July 31, 1962, Snipes grew up in the Bronx.
Lee has dealt
with the topic of drugs plaguing cities, particularly in the haunting last act of his «
Jungle Fever.»
Colette (Nicole Prescott) has come down
with a dose of
Jungle Fever, and is tempted to get her groove back
with a 22 year - old, white bartender serving her a drink soon after arriving.
Richard Attenborough: an escaped lunatic in A Bridge Too Far (1977) John Carpenter: his longest cameo appearance was as Bennett in The Fog (1980) Terry Gilliam: directed himself in bit roles in Jabberwocky (1977), Brazil (1985), and The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988); he also directed himself as a member of the Monty Python troupe in Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), and The Meaning of Life (1983) Ron Howard: small cameo roles in Night Shift (1982), How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), and A Beautiful Mind (2001) Lawrence Kasdan: Devo's (River Phoenix) lawyer in I Love You To Death (1990) Elia Kazan: Mortuary Assistant in Panic in the Streets (1950) Stephen King: in his lone directorial effort Maximum Overdrive (1986) Spike Lee: cameos (and some larger roles) in many of his own films, including: She's Got ta Have It (1986), School Daze (1988), Do the Right Thing (1989), Mo» Better Blues (1990),
Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996), Summer of Sam (1999), and 3 A.M. (2001) Terrence Malick: an unexpected visitor at door,
with blueprints, in Badlands (1973)- credited as «Caller at Rich Man's House» Robert Redford: the Narrator in A River Runs Through It (1992) Rob Reiner: a helicopter pilot in Misery (1990) M. Night Shyamalan: Dr. Hill at the hospital in The Sixth Sense (1999), a Stadium drug dealer in Unbreakable (2000), deadly driver Ray Reddy in Signs (2002), and Guard at Desk in The Village (2004) Steven Soderbergh: small cameo roles in Schizopolis (1996), Ocean's Eleven (2001) Oliver Stone: an officer
with a phone in his hand in a US base's bunker when it is blown up by a suicide bomber in Platoon (1986)
They include BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee's return to the Palme competition for the first time since
Jungle Fever in 1991
with the powerful true story of a Black cop who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
The big news was Lee's return to the Palme d'Or competition for the first time in decades (since
Jungle Fever in» 91)
with about an 8 minute standing ovation after the World Premiere of his BlacKkKlansman in the early slot Monday evening.
Outstanding direction by Spike Lee (
Jungle Fever, Mo Better Blues),
with brilliant performances that highlight a multi-layered and intense film.
That's true whether it's Spike Lee, reaffirming not just racial equality but also an empowering sense of black pride
with Grand Prix winner «BlacKkKlansman» (his first film in competition since «
Jungle Fever» in 1991), or Jury Prize winner Nadine Labaki, whose harrowing child - endangerment drama «Capernaum» calls attention to the problem of neglected children in Beirut.
Situated across the second wing of the villa and accessed via the courtyard is the Safari Room - the epitome of
jungle fever accentuated by a large wardrobe painted
with safari animals such as elephants, giraffes and other exotic animals.
Bring some
jungle fever into your bedroom
with a daring print in bold blue.