My Crimes Against Cinema on display at FANTASTIC FEST!
September 22, 2008
Must be brief, because my presence is required at another film festival. It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to do it…
After a fantastic reception at the Toronto International Film Festival, Mark Hartley’s NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD will screen at the Alamo Drafthouse as part of Fantastic Fest! in Austin, Texas. I will be there to present two of my Guilty Pleasures that are featured in NQH. The high camp splatter movie TURKEY SHOOT - 1984 meets The Camp On Blood Island and they play The Most Dangerous Game - will have its first big screen uncut presentation in America since New World released an MPAA censored version in 1983.
So for educational purposes, here is a tasteful portrait of an ante-bellum turkey shoot.
Now, by way of contrast, here is the original trailer I made for TURKEY SHOOT in 1981.
I will also be presenting my first narrative movie THE MAN FROM HONG KONG shot in 1974. (Click the poster for Fantastic Fest page.)
It will be interesting to see these action pictures with a young American audience. Good quality action depends on the skill of the stuntman. Many of the films featured in NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD contain the work of Australia’s greatest stunt pioneer - Grant Page, whose career I managed for its first 5 years. I watched him do a full burn fire gag last month. He’s 69! Still going strong! He gets older; his girlfriends get younger. He is a truly amazing human being.
Here’s a taste of some of his early work.
DANGERFREAKS is available for internet download. More on Grant Page in another blog.
Hi Brian :p My name Leslie Morris and I’m writing to you from the utopia which is known as Melbourne Australia. As far as I’m concerned Turkey Shoot is one of the greatest Australian movies ever made. I was a little shocked to see that people in NQH (and the extra features on the Turkey Shoot dvd) did not echo my sentiments. I found it amusing that everyone on the TS extra features preambled there sentences with the phase “We knew we went making art”. Who cares about art. Art isn’t nearly as entertainment as Turkey Shoot. Talking about Grant Page I caught Kung Fu Killers a few weeks ago at ACMI. I’ve affectionately remained it Kung Fu Fillers. I like the way you used movie footage as pseudo historical footage. It was a lot of fun. The audience I was with seem to like it.
Anyway my friend James Jackson wrote a few on NQH for my website. He mentions you a bit. http://bmovienews.net/mov/n/notquiteholl/r.htm I wrote footnotes as it a tad hard to understand unless you live in Melbourne. Anyway I’m a massive fan! And I dedicate all my childhood Bmx related injures to you. Keep up the good work Buddy
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