Reviewed: Not Quite Hollywood, Directed by Mark Hartley

Reviewed by Matthew Caron Released by Magnolia Pictures Just released to DVD this week is Not Quite Hollywood, a documentary examining Australia’s so-called Ozploitation flicks by director Mark Hartley. Not Quite Hollywood relates the story of filmmaking in Australia from its surprisingly late birth in the grindhouses and drive-ins at the tail end of the 1960s. Australia produced nothing at the beginning of that decade, but as international productions increasingly began to use the country as a location and employed […]

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Absurdities of War, Inglourious Reviews

No, Basterds is not a Schindler’s List, a Thin Red Line, or a Casablanca. But we don’t need any more war movies like that. The emotional core, more tangible than in any of Tarantino’s other films, builds from and questions every single war movie that’s ever been made.

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Bites: Typewriters, “The Man”, Infinite Summer has some competition, Julia Childs is on top, Dinosaur Jr. rock Cape Cod, GreenPunk, and more

Boing Boing appreciates an old, forgotten typewriter. McSweeney’s shakes things up by interviewing “The Man”. Infinite Summer make way for Finite Summer. I wish they would have stopped at “The world certainly doesn’t need another comedy starring Michael Cera as a hapless teenager blundering his way into improbable sexual encounters“. Julia Childs has finally made it. According to The Millions, Quentin Tarantino, “thinks like a writer.” The New Yorker on Quentin’s pal (and one of the stars of “Inglourious Basterds”) […]

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Bites: Typewriters, “The Man,” Infinite Summer has some competition, Julia Childs is on top, Dinosaur Jr. rock Cape Cod, GreenPunk, and more

Boing Boing appreciates an old, forgotten typewriter. McSweeney’s shakes things up by interviewing “The Man”. Infinite Summer make way for Finite Summer. I wish they would have stopped at “The world certainly doesn’t need another comedy starring Michael Cera as a hapless teenager blundering his way into improbable sexual encounters“. Julia Childs has finally made it. According to The Millions, Quentin Tarantino, “thinks like a writer.” The New Yorker on Quentin’s pal (and one of the stars of “Inglourious Basterds”), Eli […]

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Bites: Jewish people talking Wagner, Inglourious reviews, Zoetrope, Scottish twee, and more

By Jason Diamond One of my favorite Jewish websites tackles the composer who has helped spawn at least three good Woody Allen jokes: Richard Wagner (pictured above). I wonder what all those Tea Party folks would make of “Food and Wine as Collateral for Bank Loans’ (Thanks Boing Boing) Zoetrope announced their Fall 2009 issue: “Debuting in mid-September, the Fall edition features the colorful, curvaceous artwork and design of Rex Ray. Contributors include Sam Shepard, A. L. Kennedy, Han Ong, […]

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