Friday, November 30, 2007

Martin Scorsese has cre­ated a short film for Spanish wine­maker Freixenet that pays homage to Hitchcock. It’s not obvious from the film itself that it’s a com­mer­cial (unless you know wine and the title “The Key to Reserva” doesn’t tip you off), until the final minute or so, where the camera pauses lov­ingly on a bottle of the sponsor’s bubbly. In my pre­vious life, I worked for a wine importer, and we rep­res­ented Francis Ford Coppola’s wineries. I wonder why he’s never cre­ated some­thing so clever for his own wines?

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