My Best Friend’s Birthday
A Star is Born - ★★★
Early signs of the great director’s talents are easily visible in the 34 surviving minutes of Tarantino’s first film.
Now here at Spoool we aren’t going to start reviewing shorts but when it came to light that Quentin Tarantino’s first directorial outing My Best Friend’s Birthday was available on the interweb (and embedded at the bottom of this review), we had to give it a perusal. The film was shot over three years from 1984-87 and although it was completed, a fire broke out in the lab destroying the second reel leaving only half of the finished film.
