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SUMMARY:Not Quite Hollywood -  The Wild\, Untold Story of Ozploitation - DV
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DESCRIPTION:Filmmaker Mark Hartley explores Australia's hidden genre in thi
 s documentary that casually casts aside "official" film history to celebrat
 e the demented genius of director Brian Trenchard-Smith\, and the exciting 
 wave of little-known but supremely entertaining films that entertained adve
 nturous Australian filmgoers throughout the 1970s and '80s. Every film stud
 ent worth his or her weight in celluloid has seen Breaker Morant and Picnic
  at Hanging Rock\, but what about the lesser-known gems that didn't make th
 e film-school textbooks? In his forward to Tim Lucas' book Mario Bava -  Al
 l the Colors of the Dark\, director Martin Scorsese states\, "We have to ke
 ep resisting the idea of official film history\, a stately procession of 'i
 mportant works' that leaves some of the most exciting films and filmmakers 
 tucked away in the shadows." In this documentary\, director Hartley explore
 s the films forgotten by "official film history" with the comprehensive eye
  of a true film buff. As a child watching such films as Snapshot and The Ma
 n from Hong Kong\, Hartley immediately recognized how wildly disparate they
  were in tone and execution from the films that comprised Australia's tradi
 tional film library. Appearing like American genre films that just happened
  to be shot in Australia and cast with Australian actors\, these so-called 
 "Ozploitation" flicks flourished in the wake of relaxed censorship laws dow
 n under. Yet despite constant chatter about the "new wave" of Australian ci
 nema\, financially successful films like The Man from Hong Kong and Patrick
  that were popular both at home and abroad were never mentioned\, sneeringl
 y dismissed as "genre" films rather than Australian films. Perhaps in the w
 ake of such successful Australian films as Wolf Creek and Undead -- and loo
 king ahead to such films as the slasher shocker Storm Warning and the eager
 ly anticipated remake of Long Weekend -- curious filmgoers are finally prep
 ared to discover what they've been missing all these years. ~ Jason Buchana
 n\, All Movie Guide
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