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

Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2008)

Genres - Comedy, Documentary, History, Mature  |   Sub-Genres - Exploitation Film  |   Release Date - Aug 28, 2008  |   Run Time - 103 min.  |   Countries - United States of America  |   MPAA Rating - R
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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a 2008 Australian documentary film about the Australian New Wave of 1970s and '80s low-budget cinema. The film was written and directed by Mark Hartley, who interviewed over eighty Australian, American and British actors, directors, screenwriters and producers, including Quentin Tarantino, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, George Lazenby, George Miller, Barry Humphries, Stacy Keach and John Seale.

Hartley spent several years writing a detailed research document, which served to some degree as a script for the film, about the New Wave era of Australian cinema. It focused on the commonly overlooked "Ozploitation" films—mainly filled with sex, horror and violence—which critics and film historians considered vulgar and offensive, often excluded from Australia's "official film history". Hartley approached Quentin Tarantino, a longtime "Ozploitation" fan who had dedicated his 2003 film Kill Bill to the exploitation genre, and Tarantino agreed to help get the project off the ground. Hartley then spent an additional five years interviewing subjects and editing the combined 250 hours of interviews and original stock footage into a 100-minute film.

Not Quite Hollywood, which premiered at the 2008 Melbourne International Film Festival, did not perform well at the box office upon its Australia-wide release, but garnered universally positive reviews from critics and a nomination for "Best Documentary" at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards.

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Box Office

$180,957

Themes

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Art/Music, Commonwealth Of Australia, Hartley, New Wave, Ozploitation, Quite Hollywood

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Subject: Documentary about the cinema of Australia, film industry

Alternate Titles

Além de Hollywood: O Melhor do Cinema Australiano
BR
Nem egészen Hollywood
HU
Niezupełnie Hollywood
PL
Not Quite Hollywood
, FR
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
, AU, DE, GB, US
Не совсем Голливуд: Потрясающая, нераскрытая история австралийского эксплуатационного кино
RU