NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD trailer

Bumping because it's playing at the Philly Film Fest this year. This looks fucking great.

http://www.notquitehollywood.com.au/...ideoId=trailer

It's so good.

HOWLING 3 gets much love in that trailer. Nice.

Really want to see this. TURKEY SHOOT! MAD MAX! RAZORBACK! And some I can't identify!

FUCK YES.

I've been dying to see this, and thank god I live in Philly.

That fest has a ton of great looking films playing, but that's definitely the one I'm most looking forward to checking out.

Oh man I cannot wait for it come to LA.

I just glanced at it quickly and noticed Moon and Not Quite Hollywood as being standouts.

What are some things showing there that I might want to check out/keep an eye on?

I'm supposed to be getting a bunch of screeners for the films playing there so should have some reviews up for you, but the ones I'm most looking forward to are these two-

Plus you should not miss Treevenge. It's part of the shorts program and absolutely fucking hysterical.

Do post that I SELL THE DEAD review. That one is really on my radar.

Thanks, will add these to my list for the Fest.

And yes, keep me posted on what else is worth catching.

It is quite great.
Really fun to watch and provides a shitload of titles to hunt down.

The only ones i remembered watching growing up were RAZORBACK and MAD MAX. So i've got a long road to go.

The Dennis Hopper and George Lazenby stories were the best parts for me.

Slo-mo Flaming Kung Fu Lazenby was the best.

From the Philly Fest thread:

Yeah, Tarantino's homage on Death Proof is even more apparent after seeing this film.
Also enjoyed the fuck out of that great Stunt guy, who ended up starring in films later on. Some of the stuff he did was just amazing.

"they were shooting LIVE ammunition at the actors, hitting rocks" Good God!

Mad Dog Morgan (the film with Dennis Hopper) is on Watch It Now, as is Patrick. Party at my house tonight.

God I love Australia, I really do.

Do it. It's trashy fun.

My take on it:

Not Quite Hollywood is available to watch instantly on Netflix. You should watch it. Instantly.

Almost certain the version on Netflix is longer than the one I saw at the festival last year.

DVD review coming early next week!

EDIT: Er, this week. Fuck, it's 2:06 am.

Just watched it on Netflix. Very entertaining

Last June me and the wife got invited to a screening of this here in Melbourne. I had never heard of the film beforehand and didn't know what to expect at all.
The film was screened and then there was a Q & A afterwards with the director Mark Hartley.

It blew me away as I'm an English ex pat and hadn't heard of many of the films. I am now on an obsessive quest to find as many of the movies as I can.

I started with The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972) and now I'm on the excellent PATRICK (1978).

I enjoyed the hell out of Turkey Shoot, Patrick, and Long Weekend after watching this movie. Road Games is in the queue. I'd really like to watch Fair Game. It's on Amazon for 80 dollars.

Every local film maker I know is figuring out ways of remaking half of this stuff; way to miss the point, guys!
The more people who watch Wake in Fright because of this film the better. One of the best depictions of Australian culture, or at least one aspect of it, out there.

Seems like the same length- 103 minutes, just like my screener from the Philly Cinefest.

STILL have to check out Long Weekend. I've been dying to see that one, actually. Time for a queue bump, methinks.

Might be just my issue, but I feel like they go into more detail on certain films (Road Games), the segment on Long Weekend feels like it's missing a part I remember from the film, and there are whole films I don't recall from the Philly fest screening.

The Howling III (covered in the doc) is also available on Watch Instantly; nice double feature.

This movie really is movie geek porn. I think I've watched it like three times since it's been on netflix instant.

I have this on a Netflix loop, too. I've been looking for Dark Age and Next of Kin to no avail.

Same here. It's insanely rewatchable. Dead-In Drive In coming from Netflix.

Long Weekend was remade (apparently using the same script) with Jim Caviezel last year.

I've yet to see Not Quite Hollywood but I was just browsing Code Red's DVD's on Amazon and came across Stunt Rock. The reviews on DVDTalk and DVDVerdict make it sound awesome.

I did read that Ted Kotcheff's Wake in Fright was getting remastered, the dvd was supposed to come out at the end of last year but it obviously hasn't. It's a great film if you can get a copy. The kangeroo hunt is horrific (real footage, guns and knives), it's not so much the brutality of the killings but the build-up and the simple zoom in on a kangeroo's paw in the aftermath that lingers. Just the sight of Donald Pleasance in this film makes you want to wash yourself, his character is revolting.

The Odd Angry Shot is also great. It's a sombre piece but I think i laughed more at this film than most comedies that were released last year, the camaraderie and banter between the soldiers is touching and hilarious.

Watched this last night. Absolutely amazed at the charming audacity of Ozploitation flicks. Even the gut wrenching revenge flicks have a bizarre playfulness to them that you just don't see anymore. The stupidity of people thinking they need to remake these is astounding. You'll never get the tone right so all you're doing is stealing a title.

I'm also far more impressed with Tarantino as a movie scholar then I was previous. I knew he loved these movies but his passion and interpretive ability is really stellar. On the other hand, it makes me hate all the people who copy his movies more.

I can't wait to spring this on some unsuspecting associates, they'll go apeshit. Trying to track down titles online in the meantime and can only come up with Turkey Shoot, Patrick, Fair Game, and the Long Weekend.

Really want to track down The Man From Hong Kong and that flick with the drive-in prison. I haven't even seen Mad Max or the Road Warrior though, so I've got a lot of catching up to do.

Mad Dog Morgan is still on Netflix instant watch, I think. And Stunt Rock just came out on DVD.

Got my students to get their parents to sign waivers in order to watch this in class. They were over the moon about it. First thing I've shown them where the discussion after had to be cut short due to time. Surprisingly, it wasn't all about the bush and the boobs.

The double feature DVD of Dead End Drive In with Ruggero Deodato's Cut and Run is dead cheap.

Both are ok if a little slow. Dead End is the more interesting of the two and slightly smarter than it looks as the whole story is a metaphor for Britain's penal colonies in Oz. It also covers how racism often comes hand in hand with immigration.

How unintentionally misleading is this documentary. Every film looked great, even the ones that you've seen and know are dogshit. Turkey Shoot is a prime example, it's terrible and boring but the enthusiasm from the film-makers talking about how crap it is made me want to watch it again.
You could clearly see that some of them missed the days of making these films (apart from the women) and rightly so by the sounds of it, great stories, what a bad day that chap had, he entered a pub for a quiet drink and exited without a scalp.

It was a suprise to find out that Barry Humphries was a founding father of Oz-ploitation. To me, he's always been the peculiar chap on the telly that liked to dress up as an old dame, not some rabble-rouseing trendsetter.

I dunno - I feel like the doc celebrates the fearlessness and absurdity of the films, not necessarily their quality - and surely nearly all of them delivered on the fearlessness and absurdity quotient, even Turkey Shoot.

Wading through the tedium to get to the goods is nothing new for exploitation films. If you want a film to celebrate the boring parts of exploitation movies, check out Death Proof (OH!)

That's the thing about exploitation flicks that people don't get, they were usually really boring stories with bad acting until you got to the gore or the nudity. They had great trailers which tantalized and intrigued but like any trailer for a bad movie they showed all the good bits (or the hints of the good bits).

I'm not sure why people think exploitation flicks were otherwise.

Yeah, definitely. There was a "zoetrope" feel to the filmmakers and what they set out to achieve and that is at the forefront of the doc. They wanted to make films for themselves and the audience but unfortunately due to their budget and means they were limited in getting that vision across, it's plain to see that it was the process that they got a kick out of and that is endearing and it's what the doc sells extremely well. You fall in love with their ideas and how driven they were and that makes you want to watch the films, that and how ridiculous(ly great) they look. I came close to buying Howling 3 after watching it?

There's certainly no reason why you can't go into an exploitation film and expect a good film. Wake in Fright,Road Games and of course Mad Max are proof of that from the Australians. It's a genre that can be experimental, inventive and push boundaries. They're real eye-openers when some efforts been put in.

Oh, certainly, but I think they're more the exception than the rule.

Jesus, Howling 3 is on Netflix Instant View. Don't get crazy.

I'll tell you what put me off. If I bought Howling 3, I'd have to buy 4,5,6, and 7 to know how the saga ended.

I'm not strong enough to do that.

I want to film a fake PSA about the growing epidemic of geek completionism. Tearful testimonials from a dude sitting in front of the Xenomorph-shaped Alien Quadrilogy box set, doctors with graph charts showing a mental state that dips every time the Star Wars trilogies are re-released, etc.

Brian Trenchard-Smith has a blog. The brave man also used to post on IMDB.

The BBC showed Bruce Beresford's The Adventures of Barry McKenzie a couple of weeks ago. It weren't much cop.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.

lkvda

I caught Dead-End Drive-In last week. It definitely were much cop.

Holy shit... this looks good. I need to know some of the movies that are talked about in there.

What was the movie with the car chase?

What was the movie with the guy saying something like "You hurt my car"?? Is that what he says?

What was the movie with the Rambo poster?

Agreed. Not that I always care for Tarantino's movies, but he's a master at genres and their history. Those people who don't have the history with that type of movie that he does, they just won't get it right with copying his style. It's sort of like the original Psycho and the almost shot for shot remake. It's the same, and yet it's different and not quite right at the same time.

Anyway, I finally watched Not Quite Hollywood via my local Blockbuster and as everyone else online has said, it's great stuff. Sure, the rampant nudity, violence, and gore throughout was nice and all for kicks, but I got to learn something about a country's film history that I had little knowledge of, and now I'll have some more films to try and see one of these days. It's a blast and if you haven't seen it yet you should try and track it down.

By the way, Tom Logan, if you weren't joking about seeing all of the Howling movies, they really don't have much in common with each other. It's just the name and that's pretty much it. At the risk of making it sound enticing, the last Howling is one of the worst movies most people would ever see. It's mainly amateur actors in a real life tiny California town, and it's even worse than it sounds.