Scorsese does Hitchcock

In one of the most brilliant ad campaigns I’ve ever seen, Martin Scorsese directs (and preserves) a film from a three-page, never-filmed, thought-to-be-lost Hitchcock script called The Key to Reserva (tee!). As he explains it,"It's one thing to preserve a film that's been made. It's another thing to preserve a film that's not been made."

On his approach to the film: “I’m obviously not going to shoot them (the three pages) as I would. But can I shoot them as Hitchcock? I don’t think so. So who will I shoot them as? This is the question.”

The whole thing is just brilliant and amazing how it captures the look and feel of a Hitchcock film. The music, the camera angles, even the Hitchcock blonde whose resemblance to Eva Marie Saint in North by Northwest is positively uncanny.

Some of the tributes I spotted were (highlight to read): the concert hall scene from The Man Who Knew Too Much, the key and the wine bottle MacGuffin from the wine-cellar scene in Notorious, the R.O.T. monogram from North By Northwest, the red flashbulb effect from Rear Window, the falling sequence in Vertigo, and of course, The Birds.
Which ones can you spot?

The clock behind Scorsese near the end reads 6:01. Significance?



Thanks to Pop Candy for the link.