Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! | |
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Distributed by | Madman Films (Australia) Magnet Releasing (United States) |
Release date | 28 August 2008 |
Running time | 103 minutes |
Countries | Australia United States |
Language | English |
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! is a 2008 Australian
.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 "
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.
Synopsis
Not Quite Hollywood documents the revival of
Production
"As a kid my parents and teachers insisted I see quality films like Picnic at Hanging Rock. Then I saw this movie Patrick, about a telekinetic coma victim, on commercial TV late one night and it thrilled, excited and downright scared me, just like the horror films made in the U.S. but with our voices, faces and places. I didn't know we could do that."
Mark Hartley[2]
As a child, Mark Hartley discovered many of the "
Release
Not Quite Hollywood had its worldwide premiere at the
The film did not perform well at the box office upon its Australian release, taking in a gross of A$108,330 on its first weekend but only $31,995 on its second weekend at a screen average of $681 on 47 screens.[9]
Reception
Overall, Not Quite Hollywood received positive reviews from critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 95% of 65 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's consensus reads: "A raucous, fast-paced celebration of the Ozploitation films that came out of Australia in the 1970s and 1980s."[10] Margaret Pomeranz and David Stratton of
English director Edgar Wright named Not Quite Hollywood his fourth favourite film of 2008,[15] and called it "the best documentary ever."[16]
Awards and nominations
Award | Category | Subject | Result |
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AACTA Award (51st Australian Film Institute Awards)[17] |
AFI Documentary Trailblazer | Mark Hartley | Won |
Best Feature Length Documentary | Craig Griffin Michael Lynch |
Won | |
Best Editing in a Documentary | Jamie Blanks Sara Edwards |
Nominated | |
AFCA Awards | Best Documentary | Mark Hartley | Won |
Warsaw International Film Festival
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Best Documentary | Nominated |
Box office
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! grossed only $186,986 at the box office in Australia.[18]
See also
- Cinema of Australia
- American Grindhouse, a 2010 documentary about American exploitation films
- Cannon Films
References
- ^ a b c Partridge, Des (31 July 2008). "Quentin Tarantino backs Mark Hartley's Ozploitation doco". The Courier-Mail. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ a b c Moore, Tony (16 August 2008). "Larrikin streak". The Australian. Archived from the original on 5 August 2009. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ Dwyer, Michael (22 August 2008). "Glory days of gory tales". The Age. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ a b c d Stewart, Paul; Wigney, James (17 August 2008). "So bad it's good". Herald Sun. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- At the Movies. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the originalon 12 September 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ a b Gill, Harbant (28 July 2008). "MIFF and ACMI co-host season of Ozploitation films". Herald Sun. Archived from the original on 12 October 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ a b Partridge, Des (28 August 2008). "Not Quite Hollywood". The Courier-Mail. Archived from the original on 8 September 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ a b "Not Quite Hollywood burns up Toronto Film Festival" (Press release). Miranda Brown Publicity. 15 September 2008. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ de Bruyn, Simon (8 September 2008). "Unfinished Sky inches towards $1m". Inside Film. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ "Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 23 October 2023.
- At the Movies. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the originalon 14 October 2008. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ Hall, Sandra (27 August 2008). "Not Quite Hollywood". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ Wilson, Jake (28 August 2008). "Not Quite Hollywood". The Age. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ Paatsch, Leigh (28 August 2008). "Film review – Not Quite Hollywood". Herald Sun. Retrieved 30 September 2008.
- ^ Sciretta, Peter (15 December 2008). "Edgar Wright’s Top 29 Movies of 2008", Slash Film. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ "Not Quite Hollywood to be released on DVD" Archived 21 May 2015 at the Wayback Machine (10 November 2008), IF. Retrieved 7 January 2012.
- ^ Past Awards|AACTA
- ^ Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office Archived 23 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Official website
- Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! at IMDb
- Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! at AllMovie
- Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! at Rotten Tomatoes
- Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! at Metacritic
- Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! at Box Office Mojo