Not Quite Hollywood Details

2008

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60
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"Not Quite Hollywood" is the wild, untold story of "Ozploitation" movies - a time when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor, full bore action! Read more

Director	Mark Hartley
Genres	Documentary

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Not Quite Hollywood

Director	Mark Hartley
Studio	OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 43 mins
Certificate
Genres	Documentary
Language	DVD: English
Released	DVD: 30 Mar 2009 Production year: 2008
Format	DVD

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Forget all that 'worthy' cultural torture — this is Australian cinema… As important as any history of 'legitimate' Australian cinema — and 10 times the fun — it's a shot to the heart for anyone who thought Down Under was only capable of dreary, culturally relevant filmmaking
- Empire (Australia)
- Posted 23 Dec 2008
Subtitled the wild, untold story of Ozsploitation, this cheerfully vulgar documentary investigates the seedy... read more on Time Out
- Tom Huddleston,
- Time Out
- Posted 11 Mar 2009
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Unenlightening

This is another one of those worryingly fashionable and prominent documentaries that offers plentiful soundbites set to almost non-stop music, but precious little insight. Like that terribly overrated skateboarding flick Dogtown And Z-Boys, this is a barrage of information that you didn't care to know, delivered by people sometimes visibly salivating at the prospect of recounting a story that isn't really worth telling.

Many of these subjects are so rigorously determined to mythologize this period of Aussie filmmaking, that they end up telling tales that make them look like a smirking misanthropy collective. Wasn't it funny when that actress nearly drowned, just because some schmuck of a director couldn't get the shot that he wanted? How about when Henry Silva, an actor petrified of heights, almost pissed himself with fear because a camera crew took him 70ft off the ground without warning him? And that ECT sequence in Patrick? They considered giving the actor real shock therapy! What lovable rogues! What twats.

Stir in the endless shrugging off of numerous instances of casual racism and misogyny, and you're left with a pretty empty document of little genuine significance.

There are a handful of interesting, level-headed contributors (one of them being an uncharacteristically restrained Quentin Tarantino) but there is no form, structure or analysis of any cultural impact that this movement may have had. Which is a shame, because such analysis may have justified the film's existence.

There may well be valuable things to say about this subject, but it'll take a much more ambitious director to do it.
- - Al80 from Brighton, England
  - Posted 27 Mar 2009 19:33
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[Highly rated reviewer]

Unenlightening

This is another one of those worryingly fashionable and prominent documentaries that offers plentiful soundbites set to almost non-stop music, but precious little insight. Like that terribly overrated skateboarding flick Dogtown And Z-Boys, this is a barrage of information that you didn't care to know, delivered by people sometimes visibly salivating at the prospect of recounting a story that isn't really worth telling.

Many of these subjects are so rigorously determined to mythologize this period of Aussie filmmaking, that they end up telling tales that make them look like a smirking misanthropy collective. Wasn't it funny when that actress nearly drowned, just because some schmuck of a director couldn't get the shot that he wanted? How about when Henry Silva, an actor petrified of heights, almost pissed himself with fear because a camera crew took him 70ft off the ground without warning him? And that ECT sequence in Patrick? They considered giving the actor real shock therapy! What lovable rogues! What twats.

Stir in the endless shrugging off of numerous instances of casual racism and misogyny, and you're left with a pretty empty document of little genuine significance.

There are a handful of interesting, level-headed contributors (one of them being an uncharacteristically restrained Quentin Tarantino) but there is no form, structure or analysis of any cultural impact that this movement may have had. Which is a shame, because such analysis may have justified the film's existence.

There may well be valuable things to say about this subject, but it'll take a much more ambitious director to do it.
- - Al80 from Brighton, England
  - Posted 27 Mar 2009 19:33
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