http://www.scorsesefilmfreixenet.com/video_eng.htm

That was amazing! By far the coolest wine commercial I've ever seen... Welles has been schooled.

And Mobians should know that the whole thing is mostly a huge loving tribute to a legendary director recently discussed here. Damn how I wish more real movies today would be as cool as that was!

Dangit - I linked to this daaays ago in the other thread. But *sob* no one CARED. *sniffle. wipe*

Sorry! There was a simple magic to "actually worth seeing" that was missing in your post! ;)

Checking the Special Thanks credits... was that actually Michael Lonsdale as Bernard Herrmann?!?

Has he? No one pimps wine like Charles Foster Kane!

D FOR DRUNK

Fun...loved the direct-from-Broadway cast and the cameo appearance by Thelma Schoonmaker at the editing console.

It was photographed by Harris Savides, probably my favorite contemporary cinematographer. Hopefully Scorsese will collaborate with him on a future feature.

Vincent

Did you see AMERICAN GANGSTER? Seeing it in DLP, something went wrong either with the digital master provided, or with the DI (which seems less likely).

Mud with edge halos, basically. Really disappointing.

That whole initial section with the interviewer and Scorsese (particularly the bit about not touching the script pages) put me in mind of the moment in This Is Spinal Tap when Rob Reiner is discussing Christopher Guest's guitar collection ('it can never be played...').

But, agreed - that was excellent stuff.

Does anyone feel there's a bit of playful nose-thumbing towards Spielberg and A.I. going on here?

I think that's probably incidental to the joke.

Freixenet's a Spanish cava (champagne) and every year they reveal their holiday spot, usually featuring a Hollywood star (Gwenyth Paltrow, Demi Moore, Sharon Stone) & a star from Spain (Banderas et al). This year's Scorcese clip broke with tradition a bit. I guess the bottle's the Spanish star.