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	Jungle fever - Queensland - Australia - Travel - theage.com.au
		It is a delight to watch the palm trees evaporate into silhouettes as the colours of the sky deepen, and hear the hum of crickets and frogs rise as the first star sparks to life.
		This detested species hangs from tree branches and its resilient tendrils are covered in tiny barbs that have been known to pull a man off a horse and even bend back the vent on a four-wheel-drive's bonnet by 90 degrees.
		There is the Jungle Surfing for thrill seekers who wish to fly through the rainforest canopy on cables and harnesses or the popular catamaran trip out to the reef with Rumrunner for snorkelling or scuba diving.
	www.theage.com.au /news/queensland/jungle-fever/2006/09/05/1157222133770.html (1930 words)

	Samuel L. Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jackson's films have grossed between $2.1 billion[1] and $3.8 billion dollars[2] putting him between 8th and 1st of the highest-grossing actors of all time.
		Film critic Roger Ebert wrote of Jackson's decision: "Like Bill Cosby, Jackson is arguing against the anti-intellectual message that success for young fl males is better sought in the worlds of rap and sports than in the classroom" [5].
		Jungle Fever, shot by his father in the stomach, dies in his mother's arms.
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	Jungle Fever - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title of the film refers to the sexual attraction between two different races.
		The success and popularity of this film has also spurred the usage of "Jungle Fever" to mean a couple of more than one race (notably a fl person and white person together), or one who is attracted to a member of another race from themselves is considered to have "Jungle Fever."
		Jungle Fever • Malcolm X • Crooklyn • Clockers • Girl 6 • Get on the Bus • 4 Little Girls • He Got Game • Freak • Summer of Sam • The Original Kings of Comedy • Bamboozled • A Huey P. Newton Story • Jim Brown: All-American • Sucker Free City • 25th Hour • She Hate Me • Inside Man • When the Levees Broke
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jungle_Fever (330 words)

	'Jungle Fever': Spike Lee's Comedy of Sorrow
		These are just some of the reasons "Jungle Fever," his new comedy, is so consistently invigorating, right from the jazzy, syncopated credit sequence that opens the film through the cry of despair that ends it.
		"Jungle Fever" is no less deeply felt, but the view is longer, the tone cooler, the command of technique so self-assured that the film can turn on a dime from the tragic to the ridiculous.
		"Jungle Fever" is about the world between two poles, fl Harlem and the Italian-American community of Bensonhurst in Brooklyn, and about the casual love affair that attempts to bridge the gap.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/060791lee-jungle-review.html (1077 words)

	DVD Booty - Jungle Fever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		As is typical of a Spike Lee joint, Jungle Fever is a mix of serious drama and comedy.
		Included are the original theatrical trailer and a short documentary on the filming of Jungle Fever where the cast discuss their experiences on the set and their thoughts about the film.
		On a side note...Spike Lee decided to film Jungle Fever shortly after the real-life murder of Yusuf Hawkins, a fl youth, who was killed in an Italian-American section of New York City after it was discovered that he was dating a white female.
	www.dvdbooty.com /dvds/jungle-fever (717 words)

	Jungle Fever
		In these films the immigrant Italian is responsible for criminality in American society, the decline of family values, and the subversion of the American political system, among other un-American transgressions.
		The inspiration for Leeís film was the 1989 killing of Yusuf Hawkins, a young fl man, by a group of Italian-American youths in Bensonhurst, New York.
		Missing in Jungle Fever, as it is in his previous film, Do the Right Thing (1989), is a complete image of the Italian American family.
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	DVD Times - Jungle Fever
		Lee’s forte is scenes of confrontation, and Jungle Fever is a series of them, scorchingly written, extremely well acted and utterly riveting.
		As with all the other films in the set, Jungle Fever is transferred in its original ratio of 1.85:1 and is anamorphically enhanced.
		Jungle Fever is big and messy and, while undoubtedly flawed, hard to forget.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=61200 (1040 words)

	Jungle Fever News
		Jungle Fever News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Probably the only film I actively pursued for SXSW this year, but still failed to program, was his new release Inside Man.
		Film director Spike Lee will speak on the topic of courage at 8 p.m.
	www.topix.net /movies/jungle-fever (617 words)

	Jungle Fever (1991) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		I saw Jungle Fever for the first time years ago, when it first came out on video.
		Only now do I realize that this is because the film is not about two people in love.
		When I first saw it, I thought the film was advocating segregation from the "other side." Now I realize that it just showing the complexity of issues which come to play when a fl person and white person from separatist neighborhoods come together, and mostly how those environments are changed.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0102175 (527 words)

	Jungle Fever Film Review - Time Out Film
		When happily married fl architect Flipper Purify (Snipes) begins an affair with his Italian-American secretary Angie (Sciorra), all hell breaks loose: his wife (McKee) throws him out, Angie leaves home after being beaten by her father, and families, friends and neighbours chip in with horrified reactions...
		But instead of showing how prejudice seeps into the private intimacies of daily life, the film turns its attention to the other characters, including Flipper's junkie brother Gator (Jackson), who fuels a subplot evoking the destructive effects of crack on fl society.
		Sadly, this aspect, which allows Lee his most unsettling and impressive scene, seems loosely tacked on to the main thrust of the film.
	www.timeout.com /film/77350.html (193 words)

	'Jungle Fever' provokes with harsh realism
		The film opens with a dedication to Yusef Hawkins, a fl teen murdered in Bensonhurst, N.Y. Wesley Snipes plays Flipper Purify, a young, happily married African-American architect.
		Although Lee's role is relatively small, he does it well and adds some lightness and a little humor to the film.
		Jungle Fever is deep and thought-provoking and it should not be ignored.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/1991/09/09-10-91tdc/09-10-91darts-04.asp (461 words)

	Film: Jungle fever (Seattle Weekly)
		Lovely Charlize Theron plays the perky, blue-eyed "Jane of the Jungle" character, Jill Young, Joe's protector and the orphaned daughter of a Jane Goodall-like researcher.
		Ruthless poacher Strasser (Rade Serbedzija) starts the film by making orphans of both Jill and Joe, losing his thumb and finger to baby Joe in the process.
		Jungle fever - Go for the gorilla FX; forget the plot.
	www.seattleweekly.com /1998-12-30/film/jungle-fever.php (420 words)

	Jungle Fever review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The film's main focus is on the repercussions of an interracial relationship, but it also tackles drug abuse, adultery and police brutality.
		The main character in "Jungle Fever" is Flipper Purify, a successful fl architect working in an all-white firm.
		On the surface, it seems that "Jungle Fever" could have better addressed the interracial issue if Flipper were single; this way it drags along the issue of infidelity.
	home.earthlink.net /~lncook/Reviews/Jungle.htm (582 words)

	Amazon.com: Jungle Fever (1991) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		However, I don't like this film because it was so unfocused to me. There were too many things going on and in the end, it all seemed useless.
		Okay the film is well made because it attacks the interracial argument from many perspectives.
		And I guess because the issue is sticky the film is also sticky.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1558809007?v=glance (1827 words)

	Jungle Fever - Moviefone
		In his film Jungle Fever, he examines the repercussions of an...
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	Jungle Fever Film Review
		After Jungle Fever tore a fl hole through the box office, English society adopted the phrase 'jungle fever' to mean a guy/girl that's interested in doing a little dance, makin' a little love and getting down tonight with a member of African blood.
		What makes Jungle Fever so watchable is that the false community that Lee has created onscreen appears to actually exist.
		At its core, Jungle Fever is about the relationship between a fl man and an Italian girl, but there's definitely more at work.
	www.moviecritic.com.au /jungle-fever-film-review (686 words)

	Jungle Fever (1991)
		Jungle Fever is a movie dealing with the relationship between an African-American and an Italian-American living in New York and the impact this has on all the people that they know.
		Like all of Spike Lee's films, this movie deals with race relations but it is able to examine this at a more personal than seen in many of his other films.
		The palette displays a high percentage of browns and grays reflecting the harsh urban environment the film is set in.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ReviewID=714 (808 words)

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		With the development of photography, and particularly of celluloid film, it became possible to record moving pictures as well.
		The use of film also made it more feasible to use a projection system to display images for audiences, when other techniques sometimes required the individual to look into the device to see the pictures.
		The soundtrack can be recorded separately from shooting the film, but for live-action pictures many parts of the soundtrack are usually recorded simultaneously.
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	The Cleveland Free Times :: Film :: Jungle Fever
		In Rescue Dawn, German mystic Werner Herzog returns to the jungle setting of his new wave masterworks Aguirre, the Wrath of God and Fitzcaraldo.
		Herzog's latest jungle is in Southeast Asia (Vietnam to be precise), and there's nothing remotely ironic about his holy madman of a protagonist.
		This new film is Herzog's bells-and-whistles Hollywood version of the same "triumph of the human spirit" tale, replete with a marquee name (the chameleonic Christian Bale) to play Dengler.
	www.freetimes.com /stories/15/11/jungle-fever (463 words)

	Jungle Fever DVD at Video Universe
		This critically acclaimed film explores the consequences of interracial relationships in this story of an African American architect who has an affair with his working-class Italian secretary.
		As usual with Lee, he isn’t content to tackle simply one issue in his films--in JUNGLE FEVER, he addresses, for perhaps the first time, the drug epidemic in the African American community.
		The film is dedicated to Yusef Hawkins, a young African American who was murdered in Bensonhurst by a group of white youths who objected to his relationship with an Italian American girl.
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/pid/1282418/a/Jungle+Fever.htm (621 words)

	eastbayexpress.com \| Film \| Jungle Fever
		Although Tropical Malady played San Francisco's Frameline29, its naturalistic gay love story is pretty much incidental, and the second half of the film makes a sharp turn into Heart of Darkness turf.
		It would be unfair to reveal just what happens when Tong and Keng make their trip into the jungle, but we could see it coming, if only in retrospect.
		Superb sound and camera work bring the jungle alive as it has been in few movies; nighttime shots of vegetation have seldom been so spooky.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /Issues/2005-07-13/film/movies_2.html (270 words)

	Jungle Fever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Snipes and Sciorra are very good as individuals trying to reach beyond the limits imposed upon them for reasons of race, tradition, sexism, and such.
		I guess the film allows to draw whatever conclusion we want but the issue is sticky.
		All I'm saying is why does their have to be something psychologically screwed up with Wesley Snipes is the film saying that there is? Ask these questions watching the film.
	toys.wenselect.com /info/0783230389/Jungle_Fever.html (1016 words)

	Scotsman.com Living - Film - Jungle fever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The film is a fictionalised biography of the eponymous dreamer (Klaus Kinski) who wants to build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle, on a seemingly inaccessible area of land.
		Which is the kind of thing you'd expect a film to achieve via special effects, which even back in 1981 could have coped with this.
		But Herzog, being more of a method auteur, opted not only to shoot the film in the jungle 1,500 miles from the nearest settlement, but to drag the boat over the hill (the fictional character upon which Fitzcarraldo is based at least dismantled his first).
	living.scotsman.com /film.cfm?id=816942007 (679 words)

	Jungle Fever (review)
		The two get the hots for one another, and for the rest of the film they find themselves shunned by friends, family and neighbors alike.
		Also brought into play and having nothing whatsoever to do with the main interracial angle is an over-involved drug subplot involving Flipper's derelict brother.
		For that matter, now that I think about it, I'm not too sure I want to know what his opinions are - I've never been fond of his films, especially with the way they always seem to overly condone the racism and violence he's supposedly trying to condemn.
	www.laserrot.com /ldreviews/us/j/41093.html (431 words)

	CBC.ca - Arts - Toronto Intl. Film Festival
		A scene from the Spike Lee film When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
		U.S. director Spike Lee has spent most of the past two decades making films that assert his pointed, provocative opinions on American race relations.
		It would seem safe to assume, then, that his epic study of last summer’s devastating Hurricane Katrina — which stranded thousands of mostly fl survivors in the floodwaters of New Orleans while rescue efforts to reach them faltered — would impart Lee’s personally biased account of the disaster.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/tiff/features/tiffleveesbroke.html (1197 words)

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		The film also gives Adam Sandler another shot at dramatic acting, this time as a profoundly depressed man whose wife and children died on 9/11, and whose only solace is classic rock and video games.
		Binder's previous film was 2005's "The Upside of Anger," a film neither Sam nor Adam particularly liked, despite the fact that it starred Joan Allen, one of their favorite actresses.
		March 16: The last time Adam and Sam had a conversation about the film adaptation of a Frank Miller graphic novel, it was March 2005, and the movie was Robert Rodriguez's "Sin City." Sam hated Rodriguez's religious devotion to its misogynistic source material, while Adam was thrilled by the movie's visual inventiveness.
	www.filmspotting.net (5569 words)

	Brickfilms.com :: View topic - Jungle Fever (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		This is my fifth film, and the most odd film I have yet produced.
		It is a whole 52 seconds long and 2 megabytes, and was filmed in about 3 or 4 hours.
		I got tired of trying to find suitable music/sound effects for a lot of the sound for the film, so I decided to do the rest of the sound myself.
	www.brickfilms.com /phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8720 (612 words)

	MOSAEC Film & Video-Jungle Fever
		According to Spike Lee, they have the fever, Jungle Fever.
		In Jungle Fever, Spike Lee invites the audience to share in the two separate worlds of Flipper (Wesley Snipes), an African-American architect and Angie (Annabella Sciorra), a secretary from a working- class Italian family.
		One can feel the increasing heat and pressure - - -a fever that is breaking into the cold sweat of reality.
	www.mosaec.com /mosaec/film/film_jfever.htm (275 words)

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