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Special Features
- Commentary with Director Mark Hartley and The Ozpoloitation Auteurs
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- Quentin Tarantino Interviews Brian Trenchard-Smith
- Audio Interview with Director Richard Franklin
- Funding Pitches from Quentin Tarantino and John D. Lamond
- Photo Gallery
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Free-wheeling sex romps! Blood-soaked terror tales! High-octane extravaganzas! Welcome to NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD, the wild, wonderful story of 'OZPLOITATION'
films. Join QUENTIN TARANTINO, JAMIE LEE CURTIS, DENNIS HOPPER and many others as they take you on an irreverent journey through the 70 s and 80 s, an era when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the floor action.
films. Join QUENTIN TARANTINO, JAMIE LEE CURTIS, DENNIS HOPPER and many others as they take you on an irreverent journey through the 70 s and 80 s, an era when Australian cinema got its gear off and showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the floor action.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
By Mark Turner
Format:DVD
Most people think of two movies when they think of films from Australia. The most popular was CROCODILE DUNDEE, a film which a friend of mine from Australia says most folks there would like to forget. The other is MAD MAX.
This low budget exploitation films kick started the career of Mel Gibson as well as a slew of apocalyptic visions on film that involved car chases in rusted out, souped up, turbo charged vehicles. A world where marauding packs of gun toting savages ruled the streets until the hero came along.
But there was more to films coming from Australia than these. And the recent release NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD celebrates those films as well as informs viewers of gems they might have missed. Comprised of clips and interviews, this well rounded documentary gives us examples of everything from sexploitation films to the already mentioned road chase flicks.
The DVD begins in the seventies when the restraints of censorship were somewhat lifted and there was an influx of films that were bawdy but harmless in the long run. Think back to films like CANDY STRIPE NURSES and STUDENT TEACHERS and you get the picture. Films that were the mainstay for many drive-ins across this country were sprouting up in Australia with a decidedly Aussie flavor.
But the rest of the world began to pick up on these gems as well. Exploitation films had arrived and were re-dubbed ozploitation. Films like ALVIN PURPLE that told the tale of a young man who women found irresistible, who all wanted to bed, started as far back as 1973. The film was so successful that it spawned a sequel. And many more films featuring over exposed men and women followed.
But it wasn't just sex that sold. There were monsters and gore films as well. The suspense film ROAD GAMES starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis kept viewers on the edge of their seat. RAZORBACK had a ferocious oversized boar attacking people. And PATRICK featured a catatonic patient whose psychic abilities were such that he could kill without moving from his bed of blinking.
Then there are the action films, most notably those of director Brian Trenchard-Smith. Starting with MAN FROM HONG KONG and later turning out DEAD END DRIVE-IN, Trenchard-Smith gave full blown, blast off the screen action films that had cars blowing up, martial arts battles galore and over the top action. But he wasn't alone. STONE from Sandy Harbutt gave us a new take on the biker film with a decidedly Aussie style.
The films discussed here are not to be lost and won't be due in part to those they have influenced. Tarantino for one. The director/writers of SAW for another. Or the terror filled film WOLF CREEK that scared so many just a few years back. All are made by film makers who grew up on these films.
This documentary mentions them all and features interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacy Keach, director Richard Franklin, Dennis Hopper, Barry Humphries, director George Miller, director Russell Mulcahy, Trenchard-Smith and more. It also has film buff Quentin Tarantino giving his take on the genre and why these films are treasures to be found and not forgotten. Each one gives their tales of the early days of the rise of Australian film making, the good the bad and the ugly. Tales of no budget, no release form, no safety minded film makers who just wanted to make something their own.
While major releases are hyped and propped up with mega ad campaigns, small exploitation films have always relied on word of mouth to get people to see them. Some do so on DVD (video when they first started), some develop cult followings and some are discovered when documentaries are made about the genre that say "hey, you might have missed this one".
The days of the drive-in theater are waning, but not quite dead. But the films that were made for them, the movies that used topics as old as the first story tellers expressed, are still around and available on DVD. This movie praises those early film makers for what they were able to achieve. It's also a guide book for films to seek out. And more than anything, it offers a fun look at the early days of an industry that started with an Aussie outlook that the world eventually adopted and enjoyed.
This low budget exploitation films kick started the career of Mel Gibson as well as a slew of apocalyptic visions on film that involved car chases in rusted out, souped up, turbo charged vehicles. A world where marauding packs of gun toting savages ruled the streets until the hero came along.
But there was more to films coming from Australia than these. And the recent release NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD celebrates those films as well as informs viewers of gems they might have missed. Comprised of clips and interviews, this well rounded documentary gives us examples of everything from sexploitation films to the already mentioned road chase flicks.
The DVD begins in the seventies when the restraints of censorship were somewhat lifted and there was an influx of films that were bawdy but harmless in the long run. Think back to films like CANDY STRIPE NURSES and STUDENT TEACHERS and you get the picture. Films that were the mainstay for many drive-ins across this country were sprouting up in Australia with a decidedly Aussie flavor.
But the rest of the world began to pick up on these gems as well. Exploitation films had arrived and were re-dubbed ozploitation. Films like ALVIN PURPLE that told the tale of a young man who women found irresistible, who all wanted to bed, started as far back as 1973. The film was so successful that it spawned a sequel. And many more films featuring over exposed men and women followed.
But it wasn't just sex that sold. There were monsters and gore films as well. The suspense film ROAD GAMES starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis kept viewers on the edge of their seat. RAZORBACK had a ferocious oversized boar attacking people. And PATRICK featured a catatonic patient whose psychic abilities were such that he could kill without moving from his bed of blinking.
Then there are the action films, most notably those of director Brian Trenchard-Smith. Starting with MAN FROM HONG KONG and later turning out DEAD END DRIVE-IN, Trenchard-Smith gave full blown, blast off the screen action films that had cars blowing up, martial arts battles galore and over the top action. But he wasn't alone. STONE from Sandy Harbutt gave us a new take on the biker film with a decidedly Aussie style.
The films discussed here are not to be lost and won't be due in part to those they have influenced. Tarantino for one. The director/writers of SAW for another. Or the terror filled film WOLF CREEK that scared so many just a few years back. All are made by film makers who grew up on these films.
This documentary mentions them all and features interviews with Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacy Keach, director Richard Franklin, Dennis Hopper, Barry Humphries, director George Miller, director Russell Mulcahy, Trenchard-Smith and more. It also has film buff Quentin Tarantino giving his take on the genre and why these films are treasures to be found and not forgotten. Each one gives their tales of the early days of the rise of Australian film making, the good the bad and the ugly. Tales of no budget, no release form, no safety minded film makers who just wanted to make something their own.
While major releases are hyped and propped up with mega ad campaigns, small exploitation films have always relied on word of mouth to get people to see them. Some do so on DVD (video when they first started), some develop cult followings and some are discovered when documentaries are made about the genre that say "hey, you might have missed this one".
The days of the drive-in theater are waning, but not quite dead. But the films that were made for them, the movies that used topics as old as the first story tellers expressed, are still around and available on DVD. This movie praises those early film makers for what they were able to achieve. It's also a guide book for films to seek out. And more than anything, it offers a fun look at the early days of an industry that started with an Aussie outlook that the world eventually adopted and enjoyed.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By superslaw
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A great overview of a few wild years in the Aussie film scene. Will send you to your netflix que to look up some of these movies, although for a lot of these movies it's just the best bits of a bad movie that made it into the documentary. Very fun- watch it with friends and some beer.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
By Dr H.Alloy
Format:DVD
This fantastic film serves as a Valentine to the halcyon days of Aussie genre movies, indeed 'Not Quite Hollywood' is all the things that Australian movies of today aren't: Fast paced, energetic and hilariously entertaining.
Even if some of the films weren't that great, the stories about them by the people who made them are often riotously funny. And it serves up two unsung heroes of the Australian film industry in director Brian Trenchard-Smith and superhumanly tough stuntman Grant Page.
The anecdotes fly thick and fast about a more free wheeling time in Australian movies when men were men, women were women, giant feral pigs threatened the box office - while vomiting on US 80's heartthrob Gregory Harrison- and political correctness didn't exist. It's a roaring good time, fuelled by the memories of the main players on both sides of the camera.
It's also a slap in the face to the ghastly, inbred navel gazing films that are mainly the Hellspawn offspring of the government teat today. These anti audience abominations are all Oz seems interested in producing (with a few notable exceptions like 'Kenny' and 'Wolf Creek'). Part social realism, part cultural relevence (whatever the Hell that might be) and all complete tripe that can only be enjoyed by people who store their eye's in the same glass they put their teeth at night.
'Not Quite Hollywood' is something of a retrospective vaccine to all that. In fact it's transcendantly good. You don't have to be particularly interested in the subject matter to have a great time watching people having a great time making some great -and not so great- genre movies.
Highly recommended.
Even if some of the films weren't that great, the stories about them by the people who made them are often riotously funny. And it serves up two unsung heroes of the Australian film industry in director Brian Trenchard-Smith and superhumanly tough stuntman Grant Page.
The anecdotes fly thick and fast about a more free wheeling time in Australian movies when men were men, women were women, giant feral pigs threatened the box office - while vomiting on US 80's heartthrob Gregory Harrison- and political correctness didn't exist. It's a roaring good time, fuelled by the memories of the main players on both sides of the camera.
It's also a slap in the face to the ghastly, inbred navel gazing films that are mainly the Hellspawn offspring of the government teat today. These anti audience abominations are all Oz seems interested in producing (with a few notable exceptions like 'Kenny' and 'Wolf Creek'). Part social realism, part cultural relevence (whatever the Hell that might be) and all complete tripe that can only be enjoyed by people who store their eye's in the same glass they put their teeth at night.
'Not Quite Hollywood' is something of a retrospective vaccine to all that. In fact it's transcendantly good. You don't have to be particularly interested in the subject matter to have a great time watching people having a great time making some great -and not so great- genre movies.
Highly recommended.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars
If you spent any time at a drive-in in the 70's, you will love this.
Before watching this I had never heard the term Ozploitation. Here's an eye opening look at movies many of us in North America have never seen, but can appreciate. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Maineman99
5.0 out of 5 stars
a great, fun watch that works on several levels
You can watch NOT QUITE Hollywood as an eye-opening history of a somewhat under-appreciated subgenre or as simply a "greatest hits" of mind-blowing genre film moments. Read more
Published 10 months ago by William T. Wiggins
5.0 out of 5 stars
Highly recommended for genre fans!
The worst part about seeing this documentary was that I found dozens of movies that I was interested in seeing only to find that most/all of them were unavailable on dvd/streaming... Read more
Published 13 months ago by M. ADAM C GOTT
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Quite Hollywood but still Quite Worthwhile
Disclaimer: I viewed this film as a streaming rental, and as such, cannot comment on the audio or visual quality of this product. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Bryan Byrd
1.0 out of 5 stars
documentary? about what? 1969?
I buy almost anything as long its not mainstream and hoped to learn about Australian cinema. Big mistake. Read more
Published 20 months ago by aferdman
5.0 out of 5 stars
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I really liked this one. If you are a fan of 70's exploitation cinema, this one will give you a nice list of videos to look up. Read more
Published on May 10, 2011 by Kevin Theiss
5.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining and informative overview
This is a well-done, highly entertaining, and funny documentary of the Australian exploitation cinema. Read more
Published on September 19, 2010 by orvuus
1.0 out of 5 stars
don't believe the hype
This documentary begins very promisingly with a zingy teaser about the dynamism and imaginiation of the Oz-ploitation genre that's very catchy. Read more
Published on April 11, 2010 by classic 1965
5.0 out of 5 stars
totally delightful
this is a great compilation of movie clips (mostly from the 70s) from australia. besides the clips that range from sexploitation, horror, kung fu to biker movies, you get... Read more
Published on March 9, 2010 by Joseph L. Kolb
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Ozploitation overview
4.3 stars
I didn't know much about all the blokes who made the 70s Aussie grindhouse films, until I saw this flick. Read more
I didn't know much about all the blokes who made the 70s Aussie grindhouse films, until I saw this flick. Read more
Published on December 8, 2009 by K. Swanson
