Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
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Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a 2008 documentary film about the Australian New Wave of 1970s and 1980s 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, John Seale and Roger Ward.
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! | |
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Directed by | Mark Hartley |
Written by | Mark Hartley |
Produced by | Michael Lynch Craig Griffin |
Cinematography | Karl von Möller |
Edited by | Jamie Blanks Sara Edwards Mark Hartley |
Music by | Stephen Cummings Billy Miller |
Production companies | |
Distributed by | Madman Films (Australia) Magnet Releasing (United States) |
Release date | 28 August 2008 (2008-08-28) |
Running time | 103 minutes |
Countries | Australia United States |
Language | English |
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.