BPS 161: Inside the Making of Quentin Tarantino 1st Unreleased Feature

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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