Not Quite Hollywood

About Not Quite Hollywood

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrage…

Mark Hartley's Not Quite Hollywood is a 2008 comedy documentary film. Its themes are filmmaking, archive footage, cinema history, and documentary filmmaking.

Phillip Adams stars as Self, Glory Annen as Self, Christine Amor as Self, and Victoria Anoux as Self. It runs 103 minutes and was released in August 2008.

The screenplay is by Mark Hartley. Produced by Magnolia Pictures. In the United States it streams on Dox Amazon Channel and Magnolia Selects Amazon Channel.

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno, Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream, and My Voyage to Italy make useful companions to Not Quite Hollywood. TMDB voters put it at 6.8 out of 10 across 102 votes and it carries a R rating.