NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD: THE WILD, UNTOLD STORY OF OZPLOITATION Special Screenings

Quentin Tarantino, the mod professor of exploitation cinema, lends his encycloped ic knowledge of genre film to this documentary about the unheralded, raunchy, raucous, blood-soaked cinema shot in Australia in the 7Os and early ’80s – “Ozploitotion.” Though the images and ideas may remind you of the biker gong and slasher stories that crowded American drive-ins, these films hove on attitude all their own-the cars explode louder, the actors take off all their clothes, and the stuntmen hove no concern for safety, regardless of whether it’s a slasher, smut, action or kung fu movie. Director Mark Hartley interviews several of the directors, actors and producers of these films, people like Brian Trenchard-Smith, Grant Page, George Miller, Antony I. Ginnone, Barry Humphries, Sigrid Thornton and John D. Lomond. We also meet some of the Americans who appeared in these films, including Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis. All of these players prove to be as bizarre, funny, unpredictable and unbridled as the movies they mode. A tribute to guerilla filmmaking, NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is a true homage to the unsung maverick filmmakers of some of the best genre films you’ve never seen.