* Cleaning out my computer files, I stumbled on a film clip I saved from 2007. Nearly everyone at MoPo has already seen it, but I thought I'd bring it back out for everyone to enjoy again. I uploaded it as a public domain file at the Internet Archive non-profit site rather than at You Tube because I feel it's a spectacular work that deserves a less crowded web address. (Besides, its sponsors seemed to encourage sharing it.) I never get tired of watching it. Click below. (If you have a slower computer, go to the video hosted on YouTube at the second image beneath it.) Internet Archive.org Version http://archive.org/details/MartinScorsesesTributeToAlfredHitchcock http://archive.org/details/MartinScorsesesTributeToAlfredHitchcock You Tube Version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMqw2Wq0yh8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMqw2Wq0yh8 * My short news summary follows, which I added to the Internet Archive.org site: * "The Key to Reserva" is a 10-minute commercial for a Catalan champagne company in Spain (Freixenet) - masquerading as a short subject documentary - starring and written and directed by Martin Scorsese. Released in December 2007, the commercial, shot in a faux documentary style, purports to be about trying to film "a missing page of a script" to an Alfred Hitchcock film that was never made. Scorsese, a film historian and an underrated actor - as well as an acclaimed director, borrows all of the cinematic signatures associated with the Master of Suspense - in crafting a dialogue-free, approximately three-minute-long, "film-within-a-film" - which includes a classic score from Bernard Herrmann lifted from 1959's "North by Northwest." However, it also pays homage to several other Hitchcock pictures, including "The Man Who Knew Too Much," "Rear Window," "Saboteur," and, in a final shot when the film returns to "faux documentary" mode - "The Birds." This commercial circulated world-wide in late 2007 - with many viewers erroneously believing - that "The Key to Reserva" was indeed a fragment of a full-length film that Alfred Hitchcock intended to make. Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: lists...@listserv.american.edu In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
