This thing is as brilliant as it is crazy. A Spanish champagne company gives Martin Scorsese money to shoot a nine minute commercial. Scorsese, in turn, says he wants to shoot a 3 and a half pages long scene from a movie Alfred Hitchcock never finished writing called “The Key to Reserva”. I happen to know - as all Hitchcockophiles do - that Hitchcock never wrote, or intended to write, such a movie, it was clear from the get-go that Scorsese’s having a ball with this project. His comic deliverance is superb.
Then we move from the “making-of” part (shot by “Eternal Sunshine” and “Be Kind Rewind” DP Ellen Kuras) to the-movie-within-the-movie, shot exquisitely by master DP Harris Savides (”Zodiac”), the Gordon Willis of this generation. And it’s a blast: without a word spoken, it’s a send-up of The Man Who Knew Too Much wrapped around Notorious played to the tune of North By Northwest. The ending is a riot. With Thelma Schoonmaker as the editor (and guest-star), and Rob Legato (”Titanic”, “The Departed”) in charge of special effects, this piece is visually stunning, but it also a cinephile’s delight, mixing suspense with comedy. This is one of Scorsese’s best bits.

See it in full screen HD quality here.

Or, in it’s low-res glory, right here: