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

 (2008)


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| Jul 30, 2009
The New York Times
is an affectionate, rollicking guide to the drive-in classics of Australian filmmaking from the 1970s and '80s.....The cinematographer John Seale cherishes other memories.....is our antsy docent, extolling the artistic merits of the material with a frightening grasp of detail and back story..... ... Full Review
| Jul 11, 2009
Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie V
me, who knew that he'd seen one of his favorite films ever once the tribe abandoned the "Road Warrior" on their way to salvation.....The clips burn throughout this film with a tone as giddy as its subject.....The real treats are those clips, ah, those outrageous trademark moments -....Not Quite" is shamelessly served right to film buffs' hungry mouths..... ... Full Review
| Apr 06, 2009
Telegraph, UK
about whose work Quentin Tarantino speaks with characteristic enthusiasm and insight.....intercutting choice scenes with witty, acute anecdotes from the likes of Jamie Lee Curtis and George Lazenby.....Hartley has done an amazing job of tracking down many dozens of obscure.... ... Full Review
| Mar 27, 2009
Fangoria
is celebrated in kind by Mark Hartley's NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD.....a series of amusing animated images and transitions..... ... Full Review
| Mar 13, 2009
PopMatters
Even as the film extols the heady lack of safety constraints at the time or the brilliant fearlessness of stuntmen like Grant Page, it notes....The so-called sex scenes aren't sexy per se....Russell Mulcahy looks pleased as he remembers an early screening of his film, Razorback (1984)..... ... Full Review

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"Australian cinema" - it sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? Like "friendly fire" or "Irish cuisine." But thanks to the rollicking documentary " Not Quite Hollywood" (Magnolia Home Entertainment, $26.98) , we now know there was a cinematic renaissance in... ... Full Article

The Australian genre flicks of the 1970s and '80s receive a jam-packed documentary tribute in Mark Hartley's "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation." ... Full Article

Documentary. Starring Quentin Tarantino, Jamie Lee Curtis, Barry Humphries and George Miller. Directed by Mark Hartley. (R. 103 minutes. At the Lumiere Theatre in San Francisco and the Shattuck Cinemas in Berkeley.) ... Full Article

'NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!" may sound like that most dull of documentary genres, the compilation movie. But its content and spirit are anything but, as it takes us on a guided tour through an entire... ... Full Article

Mark Hartley's new documentary Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is currently playing in limited release around the country. I caught a press screening a week or so ago, and though it's not the deepest or most... ... Full Article

Mark Hartley (MH): I stumbled across Aussie genre films on late-night TV when I was a kid. When I tried to read about them in library books on Australian cinema, I discovered they had been either derisively dismissed or totally... ... Full Article

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