KEY TO RESERVA

By Jason Guerrasio in News
on Sunday, December 2nd, 2007

Surfing around the net tonight I found this amazing homage to Alfred Hitchcock made by Martin Scorsese (and paid for by the champagne Freixenet).

Shot by Harris Savides, with additional lensing by Ellen Kuras, and cut by Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese tells a “documentarian” that he plans to shoot pages of a lost script he found titled Key To Reserva the way Hitchcock would have.

“To preserve a film that has not been made,” he says.

Using the familiar music of Bernard Herrmann, Scorsese casts Simon Baker to play the debonair lead and classic sequences from many of Hitchcock’s films appear (I caught about four in a span of ten seconds). For any Hitchcock fan it’s a real treat.

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Anonymous

Best thing Scorsese’s ever done.
The Film Panel Notetaker

Now I’m really in the mood to see “Vertigo” later today at the MMI, though I think The Key to Reserva more closely resembles the scene at the Royal Albert Hall in “The Man Who Knew Too Much.”
Sasha

Hi, here’s some more info on the movie from JWT, the agency who collaborated with Scorsese.

http://www.jwt.com/thegoodstuff
R. Albert Hall

Yeah, except your friend at http://www.jwt.com/thegoodstuff writes, “But the reference of the shots extends beyond film too – the final image of the crows belonging to the words of Edgar Allen Poe.”

Yeah or perhaps it refers to Hitchcock’s The Birds. How could you blow one of the most obvious references in the film?
Anonymous

The Utne Reader posted this about the Key to Reserva:

http://www.utne.com/01-11-2008/Dial-M-for-Marketing-Scorsese-Parodies-Hitchcock.aspx

They call it a parody of Hitchcock, but it also breaks down more of the references.

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