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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

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As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!

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A raucous, fast-paced celebration of the Ozploitation films that came out of Australia in the 1970s and 1980s.

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Wesley Morris Boston Globe This is as insightful a glimpse into a country's cinema as you're likely to see at this running time. Rated: 3/4 Aug 20, 2009 Full Review Peter Hartlaub San Francisco Chronicle It's all very foul, and completely entertaining. Rated: 3/4 Aug 14, 2009 Full Review John Hartl Seattle Times Not Quite Hollywood is jammed with well-preserved clips of the Aussie movies that started pushing the limits after censorship was essentially dropped in 1971. Rated: 3/4 Aug 14, 2009 Full Review Nikki Baughan Roll Credits It's a triumph of documentary making, and a truly entertaining movie in its own right. Rated: 5/5 Nov 4, 2019 Full Review David Harris Spectrum Culture An entertaining love letter to the sex and slasher films that emerged from the land down under. Rated: 3/5 Oct 9, 2019 Full Review Martin Unsworth Starburst This is a documentary worth checking out. If you're remotely interested in exploitation movies, or indeed, world cinema itself, it's invaluable and thoroughly entertaining. Rated: 9/10 Dec 15, 2017 Full Review Read all reviews

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Logan D Who needs art when we can have boobs, violence, and gore? I'm saddened I missed out on the gonzo films released from the land down under when I was younger. I did get to enjoy Felicity with repeat viewings on Showtime. This film is an entertaining and interesting glimpse into a film style that wouldn't succeed in today's cinema. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 11/12/24 Full Review Wayne K As a person who spent 2 years living in Australia, I’m always happy to see documentaries and exposes which examine and reveal its incredible culture to the wider world, and as a film fan, learning about the history of cinema and all it’s permutations has always appealed to me. So Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story Of Ozploitation is pretty much a perfect marriage in my eyes. I recently became fascinated by Ozploitation flicks after covering a few of them on a podcast, and so it made sense to actually check the documentary out to see why this seedy little cinematic subculture is so legendary. Cramming in more T & A than your typical late night skin flick and more blood and gore than a Hershell Gordon Lewis marathon, it covers the history of the subgenre, right up to modern times, and while it’s mostly a celebration of the films and those who made them, its not a hagiography. We hear plenty of comments from people who didn’t enjoy the films or had a bad time making them. Theres a real sense of balance throughout, and little is done to gloss over just how cheap and clunky many of the movies were. In fact, this is celebrated as an example of ad hoc, derring-do filmmaking, where people with little money and basically no resources were able to cobble to together films that audiences loved, that packed out drive-in theatres and drove snobby critics and establishment types crazy. It’s not so much an in-depth look at a few of the most significant exploitation films as it is a whistle stop tour of many of the most infamous and successful. It’s rare that a documentary is paced like this, and as a result it can sometimes be hard to understand what some of the interviewees are saying. It is great seeing some like Quentin Tarantino geeking out over the films that he grew up watching, extolling the virtues of movies that most people either haven’t seen or would have no interest in watching. It gave me a whole bunch of movies to add to my watch later list, and an extra level of appreciation for the mad men and women who worked so hard to establish their careers in films that brought them little critical acclaim, but a whole lotta fans. Ozploitation, may your spirit never die! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/18/24 Full Review Bahad j There is one thing about this movie that cannot be missed. I can see that it worked really well on the small details. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/20/24 Full Review Audience Member A movie touching on the subject of exploitation movies and the world of Hollywood Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/20/24 Full Review Munkhchimeg T Movie about the movies 🤭🤭. Liked the colour, style and country vibe. Good movie 👍 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/29/24 Full Review Geke g Very underrated directing skill. Nice movie. Recommended. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 07/29/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.
Director
Mark Hartley
Producer
Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch
Screenwriter
Mark Hartley
Distributor
Magnolia Pictures
Production Co
Magnolia Pictures, Film Victoria, Australian Film Finance Corporation, Madman Entertainment, SBS Independent, City Films Worldwide, Melbourne International Film Festival
Rating
R (Sexuality|Graphic Nudity|Drug Use|Some Language|Violence and Gore)
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 31, 2009, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
May 8, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA)
$19.4K
Runtime
1h 43m
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