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Worth Watching:  Martin Scorsese In Space

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Martin Scorsese, who is up for an Oscar for his “Killers of the Flower Moon,” also directed a commercial for Squarespace that will air during the Super Bowl on Sunday.

The ad is a kind of homage to old fashioned sci-fi movies, and makes the salient – though, I think, debatable – point that nothing really matters until it is seen online.  Which is sort of an extraordinary point for such an old school classicist to make.

The other irony – the commercial will be seen by more people in one airing on Sunday than I suspect will ever see “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Here’s the comercial:

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