BPS 306: Making Quentin Tarantino's Lost First Feature Film with Andy Rausch

Now, I was scanning the web the other day, and I came across a book
about the making of Quentin Tarantino‘s first feature film. Quite
fascinated that someone took the time to dig into the unreleased,
My Best Friend’s Birthday, which I’ve spoken about a bit on my
podcast and also written a couple of articles about the film. So,
as per usual, I invited the author, Andy Rausch to the show to talk
a bit more about his book.Before this interview, I did not know
that Andy has spent years interviewing other prominent industry
names and has authored over forty non-fiction on specific works of
established entertainment contributors.Writing forty books is no
small feat.

Some of Rausch’s publications include Turning Points in Film
History (2004), The Films of Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro
(2010), Making Movies with Orson Welles, a Gary Graver
memoir, and Fifty Filmmakers: Conversations with Directors from
Roger Avary to Steven Zaillian (2008).But today, l would like
to get into the weeds on Rausch’s 2019, My Best Friend’s Birthday:
The Making of a Quentin Tarantino Film book, which is the story of
a group of friends who set out to make their own movie in 1983,
financing it with Tarantino’s minimum-wage earnings from his job at
a video store. In most biographies and Tarantino histories, this
unfinished $5,000 film is mentioned only in passing and is looked
upon as little more than a curiosity. But with this oral history,
author/editor Andrew J. Rausch details how each of the friends came
together, other early film projects they worked on, and how they
ended up making (or trying to make) a black-and-white screwball
comedy.Check out the show notes below for links to some of Andy’s
other books, all available on Amazon.

Enjoy my chat with writer, Andy Rausch.

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