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In the News (Fri 1 Jan 10)

  
  Luis Llosa at Hollywood.com
Llosa began as a film critic and segued into producing and directing made-for-TV documentaries, including the highly regarded "The Gold of the Incas".
Llosa hails from one of Peru's most influential families; their activities have encompassed politics, the arts, broadcasting and other media.
Llosa's first involvement with the US film industry was as an assistant to producer-director William Friedkin and a dialogue coach on the lavish jungle suspenser "Sorcerer" (1977), shot largely in the Dominican Republic and Mexico.
www.hollywood.com /celebrity/Luis_Llosa/197128   (1067 words)

  
 'Anaconda' is so bad it's entertaining
When examining Llosa's track record, it becomes all too clear that this film's incompetence was not intentional, as Llosa's past two films--"Sniper" and "The Specialist"--rank among the most incompetent in recent history.
Now, the question is whether the film's effectiveness is merely a fluke or whether Llosa finally realized that his limited talents are better suited to this arena.
Llosa uses Voight's grimace as a character unto itself, frequently cutting back to it for no apparent reason.
www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V130/N57/02-anaconda.57d.html   (775 words)

  
 LOVEFiLM | Europe's No.1 online DVD rental service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A photo-journalist from the States is looking for a story when he hears that the police have possibly framed an innocent Indian in Bolivia...
As action films go, Llosa's debut is more mindful than mindless.
Berenger is Marine sniper Tom Beckett, a military hit-man with 74 kills under his belt and a troubled conscience squirming in his head.
www.lovefilm.com /director.php?dr_id=1661   (158 words)

  
 Feast of the Goat review (La Fiesta del Chivo) - movie review of the Luis Llosa film starring Isabella Rossellini
This wasn't surprising since director Luis Llosa is also known for masterpieces such as Anaconda, Sniper and The Specialist.
It must be said that the director isn't helped by the bad dialogues and poor acting that stuff his film — the presence of Steven Bauer and Tomas Milian, a master at overacting, should give you enough of a clue.
Mister Llosa should go back to playing with snakes and guns, and leave history and politics alone unless of course he plans to take over Roger Corman and Trauma's empires.
www.plume-noire.com /movies/reviews/feastofthegoat.html   (180 words)

  
 Luis Llosa grabara telenovela en Republica Domincana | terra
Luis Llosa grabara telenovela en Republica Domincana
El realizador peruano Luis Llosa se encuentra en el país para grabar en locaciones dominicanas una telenovela en la que actuarán entre otros, el cantante venezolano José Luis Rodríguez.
Llosa, que ya filmó aquí en el 2004 la versión cinematográfica de la novela "La fiesta del chivo", escrita por su primo Mario Vargas Llosa, se inició como director en 1984 con la serie de televisión "Carmín".
www.terra.com /ocio/articulo/html/oci103525.htm   (281 words)

  
 Luis Llosa alerta sobre los dictadores en 'La fiesta del chivo' - 20minutos.es
Luis Llosa alerta sobre los dictadores en 'La fiesta del chivo' - 20minutos.es
Luis Llosa alerta sobre los dictadores en 'La fiesta del chivo'
Llosa explicó que Trujillo era 'una figura de muchos gestos, un actor en sí mismo, que se miraba mucho, pero por otro lado, había en los excesos la posibilidad de que eso deviniera en la caricatura, por tanto ha habido que ser muy cauteloso en que se logre un tono correcto'.
www.20minutos.es /noticia/90681/0/CINE/LAFIESTADELCHIVO/ENTREVISTA   (859 words)

  
 Film Production Notes
Directed by Luis Llosa, "Sniper" is written by Michael Frost Beckner and Crash Leyland.
Johnson also saw the film as the ideal vehicle with which to introduce the talents of Peruvian director Luis Llosa to a wider audience in the United States.
The two had met while working on the feature "Sorcerer" (Llosa was assistant to producer and director William Friedkin), and they have been friends ever since.
www.levinson.com /bsc/sniper/prod.htm   (973 words)

  
 The Feast of the Goat (2006) - FilmAffinity
Luis Llosa, Augusto Cabada, Zachary Sklar (Novel: Mario Vargas Llosa)
Their epic story and that of Urania are intertwined in an intense kaleidoscope of love, hate, death and violence.
This film, based on the passionate novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, is about a tremendous personal drama combined with a political conspiracy, a historic gesture, and a tragic ending that marked a new era in the history of the Dominican Republic.
www.filmaffinity.com /en/film836299.html   (414 words)

  
 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Anaconda
This adventure, directed by Luis Llosa of The Specialist and Sniper fame (or infamy, depending on how you look at it), follows a film crew traveling down the Amazon to make a documentary on a mysterious tribe.
Llosa also uses some "state-of-the-art" computer animation for some shots of the snake striking and wrapping around its prey, but the effects are obviously computer generated; the seams are quite visible.
The phony snakes are more than enough to ruin the film, but the true awfulness of Anaconda doesn't stop there.
all-reviews.com /videos-2/anaconda-2.htm   (350 words)

  
 Luis Llosa pic, poster, close-up pics & event picture
Luis Llosa pic, poster, close-up pics & event picture
Producer, director and writer Luis Llosa, also known as Luis Llosa Urquidi, has produced many films on his credits including Crime Zone (1988).
Aahceleb.com: Where you find the hottest Luis Llosa pictures.
www.aahceleb.com /pics/luis_llosa.html   (110 words)

  
 ANACONDA - SUPERBIT DVD
Almost worth it just for Jon Voight's post-regurgitation wink, Luis Llosa's B-movie creature-feature Anaconda is a deadpan riff on the nature-amuck flicks of the mid-seventies in general and Steven Spielberg's Jaws in particular.
Though it seems initially as if Llosa will wisely keep the creature from view throughout (its point-of-view menace throughout the early-going courtesy Butler's water-level eye), the second the snake appears in all its digital glory, any pretense of real fright falls by the wayside.
Voight's performance alone is absurd enough to merit the film a look (it reminds in its alien fervour of Nicolas Cage's turn in Vampire's Kiss); Anaconda is his as soon as he appears, rendering moot the stunning predictability of the kills and false alarms.
www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/anacondasuperbit.htm   (596 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Anaconda: DVD: Luis Llosa,Jennifer Lopez,Ice Cube,Jon Voight,Eric Stoltz,Jonathan Hyde,Owen Wilson,Kari ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
You might wonder why Eric Stoltz, who plays Dr. Steven Cale, showed up for a role that requires him to be off-screen for most of the movie, but hey--when it comes to big snake movies, you might as well put your brain on hold and sit back for the slimy ride.
Luis Llosa - Director, Hans Bauer - Writer (Written by), Jim Cash - Writer (Written by), Jack Epps Jr.
DVD > Directors > (L) > Llosa, Luis
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767802497?v=glance   (2458 words)

  
 Movie Info for To Die Standing on MSN Movies
Peruvian film producer and documentarian Luis Llosa, delves far and wide into the South American drug scene in this 1991 action thriller.
A brash American DEA agent Shaun Broderick (Cliff DeYoung) and a staid Peruvian counterpart Lt. Delgado (Robert Beltran) are forced into working together to bring a drug lord (Orlando Sacha) to a Miami prison.
Filmmaker Llosa, incidentally, is the cousin of renown author and powerful right-wing Peruvian politician Mario Vargas-Llosa.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=18884   (162 words)

  
 deseretnews.com - Movie review: Anaconda | Deseret Morning News Web edition
Loaded with camp dialogue to spare and a monster snake that looks too much like it came out of a computer instead of the Amazon, "Anaconda" is another major misstep for director Luis Llosa (who last gave us the overcooked Sylvester Stallone-Sharon Stone thriller "The Specialist").
But Voight is not quite as ruthless as the snake, and Llosa takes full advantage of his computer-generated star as it swallows a few people whole.
One of Llosa's problems is that he shows the monster too soon.
deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,76,00.html   (575 words)

  
 All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Anaconda
ANACONDA is a horrible movie but a hell of a lot of fun.
I have a feeling director Luis Llosa made it to be that way and so, after laughing at an overacting Jon Voight, an underacting Ice Cube and a fake-looking 40-foot long snake (which looks like it was computer generated on a Mac Classic), I'm giving ANACONDA a thumbs- almost-up.
It's constructed like a disaster movie, with a big cast of caricatures who will be in constant danger, fatal for most of them.
all-reviews.com /videos-2/anaconda-5.htm   (321 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Specialist, the: Video: Luis Llosa,Sylvester Stallone,Sharon Stone,James Woods,Rod Steiger,Eric ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Stallone as Quick sleepwalks through his screen time, but as I watched this movie for the third time, I realized that the movie that I saw was exactly the one that director Luis LLosa wanted: a paen to the power and destructive force of matchbook sized bombs.
Clearly, LLosa did not want anyone to take seriously the tale of a hired bomber who could kill in the hundreds and not arouse world wide attention.
There are so many explosions that each one works metaphorically to eradicate any serious consideration of a plot that has as much weight as one of Quick's plastic explosives.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0790733382   (1947 words)

  
 GoHastings.com Item Information
Luis Llosa previously directed three U.S./Peruvian co-productions for Roger Corman's company, Concorde/New Horizon Pictures: "Hour of the Assassin" (1987), "Crime Zone" (1989) and "Fire on the Amazon" (1991).
Llosa is the cousin of Peruvian novelist (and former presidential candidate) Mario Vargas Llosa.
Rated BBFC 15 by the British Board of Film Classification.
www.gohastings.com /catalog/item/item.asp?prodid=33030871   (352 words)

  
 Anaconda . Tucson Weekly . 04-17-97
Secondly, the script is willfully poor ("Oh, shit, look!" one character says upon seeing a snake the size of a space shuttle coming towards him).
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www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/a/anaconda.html   (134 words)

  
 Fire On The Amazon - Movie Review
Yes, like many of those "overnight success" stories, Bullock had to slog through made-for-television weepies and cheapies, raunchy comedies and rip-offs of bigger, better Hollywood blockbusters.
Director Luis Llosa was working his way through the ranks as well (he would go on to produce more generic action-adventure stories with gratuitous steamy sex scenes in the Stallone-Stone vehicle, The Specialist).
If Llosa is the best talent Corman has to offer these days, which seems to be the case, I long for the days of Joe Dante, Ron Howard, and Paul Bartel where the films were done on a shoestring budget but had a vivid imagination and willingness to take chances.
www.contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/fireontheamazon   (729 words)

  
 If You Don't Get It... We Don't Care!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
It has the elements required to build suspense, but fails to execute.
Rather than set the film in the darkness, director Luis Llosa uses broad daylight, leaving nothing for your mind to run away with.
Set in the Amazon, Llosa also largely ignores the terror of people in muddy water.
www.lowcomdom.com /film/a/anaconda.html   (118 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Fire On The Amazon [1993]: DVD: Luis Llosa,Craig Sheffer,Sandra Bullock,Juan Fernández,Judith ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Starring: Craig Sheffer, Sandra Bullock Director: Luis Llosa Classification:
The directing of Luis Llosa is also a hindrance to any enjoyment you may have recieved from this film.
The original theme of the film is forgotten as you are so appalled by the acting by what is a better cast than the film makes out.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005JI0D   (474 words)

  
 Luis Llosa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Hour of the Assassin (1987) (producer) (as Luis Llosa Urquidi)
Hour of the Assassin (1987) (as Luis Llosa Urquidi)
Find where Luis Llosa is credited alongside another name
www.imdb.com /name/nm0515891   (246 words)

  
 Luis Llosa - cinema.acasa.ro
Luis Llosa se trage dintr-una dintre cele mai influente familii din Peru, imlicata in politica, arta, literatura si mass-media.
Cu toate ca era faimos in lumea filmului si al entertainmentului peruan inca din anii 1970’, Llosa a devenit cunoscut la Hollywood la inceputul anilor 1990.
Mai intai a fost critic de film, apoi a inceput sa produca si sa regizeze diferite documentare de televiziune, cel mai cunoscut fiind Aurul incasilor.
filme.acasa.ro /Luis_Llosa_--a2258.html   (278 words)

  
 Luis Llosa
Berenger's done this switched-off soul bit before, but Zane doesn't seem quite ready for his part.
In any case, the acting doesn't matter as much to director Luis Llosa as fancy camerawork to give viewers the sense of a bullet hurling along its trajectory.
DVD Release Date: Released the 06 March 2001
www.dvd-today.com /director/Luis-Llosa/dvd.html   (729 words)

  
 Arrow In The Head's movie review of Anaconda: Jennifer Lopez/Terri, Kari Wuhrer/Denise, Jon Voight/Paul
Take that golf club and shove it in your “hole in one” buddy!
Scare-wise, the movie had its minor moments here and there, but Llosa introduced the creatures fairly flatly and the shoddy effects that accompanied them pretty much nixed the fear factor that I could have felt.
Let's face it, the CGI snakes looked like rejects from any old “Coleco” game and the animatronics snakes actually appeared kind of cuddly in a “Care Bears’ kind of way; I WANT ONE.
www.joblo.com /arrow/reviews.php?id=198   (1080 words)

  
 Luis Llosa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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 AMCTV.com SHOW - The Specialist
Luis Llosa directs this action-packed chronicle of Ray Quick (Sylvester Stallone), a former CIA operative now working freelance in Miami.
Ray is approached by the alluring May Munro (Sharon Stone) to exact revenge on a Mob family headed by Leon (Rod Steiger) and his psychopathic son Tomas (Eric Roberts), who murdered her parents years ago.
AMC Movie Camp: Make a movie in a week!
www.amctv.com /show/detail?CID=57282-1-EST   (105 words)

  
 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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The litmus test of a giant killer-snake movie is whether or not the thing is scary, and director Luis Llosa delivers a plausibly thrilling ride, relying heavily on the horror conventions codified by JAWS.
It won't take viewers long to realize that the callow, youthful documentarians led by cocksure anthropologist Steven Cale (Eric Stoltz) and first-time director Terri Flores (Jennifer Lopez) are going to be tested by the Amazon in their quest to find and film the anaconda-worshiping Shirishama Indians.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/Movie-Review.asp?MI=37736   (264 words)

  
 Anaconda
A horror film review by the author of Vampire Nation and Halloween Candy.
Anaconda (1997, dir: Luis Llosa; cast: Jon Voight, Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube, Eric Stoltz, Jonathan Hyde)
Can a giant snake make for a horror film?
www.communistvampires.com /horror/Anaconda.htm   (580 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Anaconda [1997]: Video: Luis Llosa,Jennifer Lopez,Ice Cube,Jon Voight,Eric Stoltz,Jonathan Hyde,Owen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Amazon.co.uk: Anaconda [1997]: Video: Luis Llosa,Jennifer Lopez,Ice Cube,Jon Voight,Eric Stoltz,Jonathan Hyde,Owen Wilson,Kari Wuhrer,Vincent Castellanos,Danny Trejo,Frank Welker
Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid [2004] DVD ~ Johnny Messner
Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Ice Cube Director: Luis Llosa Classification:
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CVAW   (1025 words)

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