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

United States, Australia

2008

103 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.8/5 Stars.
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PROD Craig Griffin, Michael Lynch

DP Germain McMicking, Karl von Moller

CAST Abigail, Phillip Adams, Christine Amor, Glory Annen, Victoria Anoux, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, Quentin Tarantino, Brian Trenchard-Smith, Antony I. Ginnane

MUSIC Stephen Cummings, Billy Miller

London (World), Karlovy Vary (Midnight Screenings: Ozploitation)

Director

Mark Hartley

Mark Hartley is a multiple ARIA award winning and AFI award winning filmmaker.

In 2008 his highly acclaimed debut feature, “Not Quite Hollywood” – featuring Jamie Lee Curtis, Dennis Hopper, Barry Humphries and Quentin Tarantino – was selected as opening night film of the Melbourne International Film Festival before having a 50 print Australian theatrical release through Madman Entertainment.

At the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards “Not Quite Hollywood” won Best Documentary and Hartley was awarded the inaugural “AFI Documentary Trailblazer” award. He also received an AFI nomination for Best Editing.

“Not Quite Hollywood” also won both the 2009 Filmink award and the Film Critics Circle Association (FCCA) award for Best Documentary – voted by a national body of professional film critics in Australia.

Prior to embarking on “Not Quite Hollywood”, Hartley was Australia’s busiest music video maker, directing over 150 promos for local and international artists… read more

Mark Hartley is a multiple ARIA award winning and AFI award winning filmmaker.

Prior to embarking on “Not Quite Hollywood”, Hartley was Australia’s busiest music video maker, directing over 150 promos for local and international artists including Powderfinger, The Living End, Sophie Monk, The Cruel Sea and Joe Cocker. He has received a total of 8 ARIA nominations, winning two statuettes (he tied with himself at the 2000 awards). He has also won a Tui for “Best Music Video” at the New Zealand Music Awards and has been nominated for an International MTV Award.

In addition, Hartley directed the official music video of the XXVII Olympic Games, the video for Walt Disney’s theatrical release, “The Jungle Book 2” and was commissioned by Screentime to direct the debut music videos for the first two “Popstars” winners.

Hartley has also directed a number of long form documentaries on classic Australian Films working in collaboration with Peter Weir, Bruce Beresford, Gillian Armstrong, Fred Schepisi and Phillip Noyce. These documentaries have been released internationally through Criterion in the United States and Second Sight in the United Kingdom. He was recently involved in the production of the International Blu-ray release of “Baraka” and has also created content for Severin Films and Blue Underground in the United States. —IMDb

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Silenzio

11Mar13

Very interesting and entertaining at the same time. I thought I knew about Australian cinema but actually I had seen only a handful of Ozploitation films. I will definitely check out Wake up In Fright now, the Long Weekend and some Brian Trenchard Smith films thanks to this,

film_lies101

20Jul12

A great primer for those unfamiliar (myself included) with Ozplotation

Elric Everett

9May11

maybe it was just me, but tarantino seemed to enjoy the violent scenes against women quite a bit...

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GIYGAS

21Mar11

Incredibly entertaining but doesn't really do much as a film more than, say, a really quirky Wikipedia entry. A wildly fun doc if not an engaging one.

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