On the QT - Part 1 (Redux)

The first, first part was here. On the lead up to the release of the soon to be latest Quentin Tarantino instalment, Inglorious Basterds, I’m doing a review of all of his movies to date. Upon my incredibly extensive research, I came across rumours of a never much seen first attempt of a movie by Quentin. This was the first that he had written, directed and starred in. I, among many other Tarantino fans thought that True Romance was his first stab at film making, or even involvement. While that was his first major Hollywood screenplay, his first attempt at making an entire film was “My Best Friend’s Birthday“. After trying to piece the whole thing together through Youtube, our very own Darren Byrne tracked me down a copy of the movie and sent it over. Kudos dude, and thanks. Into the laptop it went as my excitement was quickly … There’s more

On the QT - Part 1, sort of

Right, so carrying on from HERE I was hoping to start with a good review of Quentin Tarantino’s first ever film - “My Best Friend’s Birthday”. Written by Quentin in 1987 it was the first of his scripts to be made into a film. Not Resevoir Dogs, like most would believe and if I’m honest, that’s what I thought. With the little research I’ve done the synopsis is simple. “It’s Mickey’s Birthday and his girlfriend just left him, so that’s when his friend Clarence shows him a birthday he’ll never forget”. Quentin plays Clarence and straight away you can see that his acting skills haven’t exactly improved over the years, but some would say they didn’t have to. It’s grainy and black and white and I wish I could offer more of a review on it, but I can’t track down a copy of it and I really don’t fancy … There’s more