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my new found love for australian cinema

posted 16 years ago by Stryde22
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I am so glad i saw this movie...it completely opened my eyes towards the brilliant exploitation films made in Australia long before my time...and did not bore me in the slightest. granted, i was 1 of 8 people in the cinema, (and only one of two who werent over 60 years old :D), but i did not feel uncomfortable paying to see such a great documentary on the big screen.

im hoping some people will be able to contribute to the IMDB details for this movie so i can read more details on it. I am definitely wanting a larger list of all the movies shown so i can further educate myself on all of it.

i am just...amazed, at how great all the films looked...true exploitation films...and i was flabbergasted at Tarantino's love for Australian Cinema. i mean, it is general knowledge that Tarantino uses many influences in every film he makes, but seeing NQH showed exactly how much inspiration the Australian film industry could muster.

did anyone else my age get as much out of this as i did? i just wanna know if me and my mate were the only ones under 20 who paid to see this in cinema XD
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[–] s_a_p_90 16 years ago

Me and my mate saw it and we're 18 and it was so awesome! i thought the only decent movie australia had produced was the castle! (i mean that figuritivly, i know theres more than one). turns out i was grossly mistaken!

this movie just makes me want to go out to the desert and blow *beep* up!

can anyone make a list of all the movies so i could see them?

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[–] Brimac98 16 years ago

I have to admit I was surrounded by pensioners when I saw this movie too--and they all loved it (well, it was nostalgic for them)

My one regret about this movie is that they marketed it wrong--I think they should have also highlighted the people that were interviewed for the movie on the poster (the biggest load of great Australian stars in one movie) as well as Quentin Tarantino (his greatest performance in a movie....as himself!) - maybe a whole lot more pensioners (as well as kids) would have seen this movie in the best circumstances possible instead of on home video.

Also the Australian film industry needed this as a shot in the arm--one sage commentator said that the Australian public has fallen out of love with Australian movies, and I have to agree with him, as movies with million dollar budgets make only thousands back at the box office: they make them without thinking of what audience these movies were made for (if any)

"The Castle" in 1997 probably was one of the last great Australian hits at the box office -- no, "Kenny" was another....but not too many others -- and maybe this look back will make kids want to look back at those great pictures from the 70s--and maybe check out the great Cinesound features from the 30s while they're at it.

[–] CitrusWithFuschiaTrim 15 years ago

Chopper, Wolf Creek, Lantana and Happy Feet have all done fairly well at the box office in the same period, if I understand correctly. It's a shame the public has indeed "fallen out of love with Australian movies" as I'm still not convinced that the industry has a substantially worse hit-to-miss ratio quality-wise than any other national industry. Hell, Rolf de Heer ALONE has made 3-4 excellent films in that same period which seemingly received more attention overseas.

As for NQH, I've now rewatched it several times. I'm not under 20, but I was too young for the 70's 'new wave' and 'genre cinema' (to use Tarantino's categories), both of which I've been seeking out for some time. I was delighted to learn from the film that there were even MORE sub-'Turkey Shoot' titles out there to, erm, enjoy.

The hero of the doco for me was the crushingly self-critical and recently deceased Richard Franklin, who really had a foot in each camp at various times: "Eskimo Nell", "Fantasm" and "Patrick" on the 'genre' side, through to his unabashed Hitchcock tributes and the much later, more sober stuff like "Hotel Sorrento". They're such impeccable-looking films, whatever the subject matter. RIP Richard Franklin (and Tim Burstall for that matter!)
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