NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD (2008) ¢ ¢ ¢
D: Mark Hartley
An amusing and informative documentary about the evolution of Australian exploitation films in the 1970s and 1980s. Lots of revealing clips and cheeky commentary from the filmmakers responsible, a crazed band of auteurs whose simply stated goal was to pack their movies with as much sex and violence as censorship boards and severely limited budgets would allow. Their stories about how close they came to killing people are as hair-raising as anything they actually put on the screen. There's a lot of gore and nudity (of course), and (speaking of crazed), some behind-the-scenes footage of Dennis Hopper, clowning around on the set of "Mad Dog Morgan", stoned out of his mind. Fred Schepisi, Jamie Lee Curtis, Stacy Keach and Quentin Tarantino are among the witnesses.
