Lightened Loads
di Anthony Lane The New Yorker
Soul is not the first ingredient that we associate with exploitation movies, and the recipe we find in "Not Quite Hollywood" feels bracingly traditional. This is a documentary, directed by Mark Hartley, about the lower reaches of the Australian film industry in the nineteen-seventies and early eighties, which were driven by the unabashed conviction that cars exist to be trashed, breasts to be revealed, and arteries to be sliced. The titles alone would have found favor with Roger Corman: "Deathcheaters," "Pacific Banana," and "The Day After Halloween. [...]
di Anthony Lane, articolo completo (2693 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 10 agosto 2009