When Movie Campaigns Attack

Don't be alarmed ... even if I was.

It's one thing to receive creepy "gifts" in the mail. It's quite another when they're completely unrelated and yet they thematically compliment each other ...and they arrive on the same day. First, a bird with a bomb attached (courtesy of Four Lions which I keep hearing great things about. Movies, wait for me. I'm back to screenings in one week's time!).

And then a letter in a black envelope from "Nina Sayers." You know, the ballerina...

So I'm super excited to read the letter but I open it up and...nothing.

Or wait.

Feathers.

Is Alfred Hitchcock directing Oscar campaigns now?

"Every Ending... Has a Beginning."

The Birds (1963) gets the prequel we definitely needed...


The Birds (The Prequel) from NYSUfilms on Vimeo.

... because everyone hates movies without exposition / backstory. [/sarcasm] I love the gentle spoofing of our modern need for all mystery to be explained to us "We had no answer... until now". Ha!

Apparently this prequel trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's classic The Birds is a year old. But I'm just seeing it now thanks to @mattriviera and @mattzollerseitz so it's new to @me... and a delightful start to my morning it was, too. Good morning!
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