Movie review: 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' Aug 16, 2008
Starring Javier Bardem, Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall and Penlope Cruz ... Within moments, we know that Vicky (Rebecca Hall) is a student of Spanish architecture, in Barcelona to study the Gaudi buildings, and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson) is along for the adventure ... Bardem shows new shades of humor and romantic appeal, and Rebecca Hall, as Vicky, is launched as a young actress of rare maturity and intelligence. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Neighborhoods: Word on the street Aug 14, 2008
For information or assistance during construction, please contact Rebecca Fuentes, community relations manager, at 617-349-6948 or e-mail rfuentes@cambridgema. gov. If you have any questions or comments about the design, please contact Juan P. Avendano, traffic calming project manager at 617-349-4655 or e-mail javendano@cambridgema. (Cambridge Chronicle, MA)
Cultivating Creativity children's art exhibit presented in Charleston Aug 13, 2008
Both of these artworks were created under the direction of art teacher Rebecca Hitchcock. Jones colored pencil/mixed media Egyptian Art piece was completed as a 3rd grader at Carl Sandburg Elementary School. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Hitchcock & Chaplin Overlooked at t... Jul 22, 2008
Hitchcock s first American movie, Rebecca, did win the best picture Oscar in 1941, and it is a good story, but it s not in the AFI top 100 American films. Four other Hitchcock works are. (Suite101.com)
Making sense of the AFI's 'Top 10 Films in 10 Genres' list Jun 19, 2008
and in the Best Mystery - The Third Man should have been 1 or 2 - Vertigo - give me a break - where was Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock's favorite of all his films) and where was Rebecca (it did win best picture academy award). and in the Best Courtroom Drama (strange genre if you ask me) - where was Inherit the Wind. (Entertainment Weekly)
Multihyphenate won Oscar for 'OUT OF AFRICA'... May 28, 2008
Pollack is survived by his wife and his two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel. Pollack's son, Steven, died in a 1993 plane crash in Santa Monica. (The Drudge Report)
Director Sydney Pollack dies of cancer May 27, 2008
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Claire; two daughters, Rebecca and Rachel; and six grandchildren. Services will be private. (India Times, India)
Sydney Pollack, 73; director achieved critical acclaim, commercial success May 27, 2008
They were married in 1958 and had three children, Rebecca, Rachel and Steven. Steven died in a plane crash in 1993. (Boston Globe)
Overheard, out and about, Mrs. Grundy sees all, tells all May 17, 2008
Attending, in addition, were Rebecca Nall, Bernice Livingston, Rachel Elmore, Wayne Caylor, Fran Fine, Larry Scroggins, Mary Lou Ellis, Margaret Powell, Ollie Belle Landrum, Norma Gavras, and Holly Lord ... The other award was for Rebecca Gilman, named Alabama's Distinguished Writer for 2008; this award is known as the Harper Lee Award ... Rebecca is a playwright living in Chicago. (Andalusia Star News, AL)
Migrant talent Feb 25, 2008
His first American film, Rebecca, was based on a novel by a British author and revolved around a young bride haunted by her husbands late wifes legacy at an English manor. The psychological thriller won the Academy Award for best picture. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
When Dow dips, fashion becomes more hip Feb 9, 2008
British designer Rebecca Taylor took inspiration from a vision of a French girl going through old boxes and wardrobes to find beautiful clothes that she "throws together in such an irreverent manner and then throws on her boyfriend's jacket.". Taylor paired chiffon dresses, pulled in at the waist with skinny sparkling belts, with tailored winter coats. (MSNBC -- News)
Recent Oscar Winners and Nominees Jan 22, 2008
The first was Alfred Hitchcock s Rebecca (1940). Shrek (2001) became the first-ever Best Animated Feature Film. (Suite101.com)
Oscars for Directing - 1950s/1960s Jan 20, 2008
His nominations were for: Rebecca (1940), Lifeboat (1944), Spellbound (1945), Rear Window (1954), and Psycho (1960). The 1960s saw an influx of foreign directors being nominated for Oscars. (Suite101.com)
MORE ON 'The 39 Steps' Jan 16, 2008
Adapted by Patrick Barlow, based on an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon and the book by John Buchan; directed by Maria Aitken; sets and costumes by Peter McKintosh; lighting by Kevin Adams; sound by Mic Pool; production management, Aurora Productions; production stage manager, Nevin Hedley; general managers, Rebecca Habel and Roy Gabay; associate producer, Sydney Beers; associate artistic director, Scott Ellis. Presented by the Roundabout Theater Company, , artistic director;... (New York Times)
Media Rights to fund top directors Sep 5, 2007
Salles, Mauricio Ramos and Rebecca Yeldham are producing. n "Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho," a film that "Nip/Tuck" creator-exec producer Murphy will direct in January. (Variety)
The Ascent of "Torture Porn" Aug 24, 2007
On the blog now: Updated at 8:56 AM. Updated: 7:07 AM 08/24/07. (Townhall.com)
Tops' new season a good vibe going May 11, 2007
And in August: Dazed and Confused, Sunset Boulevard, Funny Face, Out of Sight, Garden State, North by Northwest, Rebecca and Don Juan De Marco. Fall brings September's The Princess Bride, Bridget Jones's Diary, The Graduate, The Notebook, Intolerable Cruelty. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
More of this story May 8, 2007
Booker T. Washington s Rebecca Parks downed Ritchie in the Class 5A No. 1 singles state title match, 6-3, 6-0, at the Oklahoma City Tennis Center. In the 1940 Alfred Hitchcock movie classic called Rebecca , the title character is an unseen illusion whose influence reaches beyond the grave ... But, in this case, Washington s Rebecca proved to be all-but-too real. (Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, OK)
Retired leaders still cast long shadows Mar 8, 2007
Warren Bennis, a leadership expert, says all retired bosses must guard against the Rebecca Syndrome, named after Daphne du Maurier's 1938 novel Rebecca and Hitchcock's movie version of 1940. It is a tale of a new bride who suffers from the romanticised image of her husband's dead first wife. (Business Report, South Africa)
Scorsese joins the club Feb 26, 2007
The film he made that won, 1940's "Rebecca," is an over-stuffed drama bathed in respectability by the presence of Sir Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. Dubbed "romantic-gothic corn" by critic Pauline Kael, it feels badly dated today while "Psycho," a pure Hitchcock thriller ignored by the Academy, still crackles with mischief and mayhem. (Los Angeles Times)
Du Maurier's lesbian loves on film Feb 11, 2007
Her novel Rebecca tells of the second Mrs de Winter's desperate struggle to break free of the shadow cast by her beautiful predecessor ... The 90-minute drama, to be shown on BBC2, focuses on what the BBC describes as the 'fraught' period of Du Maurier's life that followed the success of Rebecca and led up to the writing of My Cousin Rachel and her short story The Birds, famously filmed by Alfred Hitchcock ... You'll never read Rebecca in the same way again. (Guardian Unlimited)
Oscar prefers a regal view of Britain Feb 4, 2007
Producer Rebecca O'Brien was quoted as saying: 'We've already won the only prize that European and world film-makers truly covet [the Palme d'Or], so why try and compete with the majors [studios] at something they are much better at. . (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
A menacing buzz Jan 20, 2007
On learning the answer, Seltzer demanded a re-recording to match the number of fiddlers used in Rebecca ... And it cannot be a coincidence that so much of the music for Hitchcock films seems to be reaching towards an ideal of disembodied, wordless voices - from Waxman's explicitly named "ghost orchestra", supplemented with electronics, for Rebecca, to Rosza's use of the spookily wailing Theremin in Spellbound (thus instigating a thousand genre-movie clich;s), and Herrmann's phantom decadence for... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Weekend Guide Jan 4, 2007
" featuring nonfunctional teapots by more than 25 artists, through Jan. 12. Closed Sun.-Mon. MOXIE DADA North Side, 412-682-0348. Sat.: "Hand to Hand," the coast-to-coast collaborative collage of Rebecca Trawiock and David Wallace, through Jan. 27, opening reception, 6-9 p.m. Closed Mon.-Wed. PITTSBURGH CENTER FOR THE ARTS Shadyside, 412-681-0873. "Chronicle of Recovery," Robert Dunn's digital compositions on life; "Exterior/Interior," the Pittsburgh Print Group's new works; "Twenty-Four in... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Director Robert Altman, who made a career out of bucking Hollywood, dead at 81 Nov 22, 2006
Prosecutors first called Rebecca Musser, a former member of Jeffs' church who was married to his late father, Rulon Jeffs. She recalled Jeffs telling her to counsel her teenage sister after the wedding at the Nevada motel. (North County Times)
Cinema: A Criterion Top 10 Nov 11, 2006
REBECCA, Alfred Hitchcock ... In addition to footage from the 1941 Academy Award ceremony, where Rebecca picked up Oscars for Best Picture and Cinematography, the disc's extras include three one-hour radio adaptations, among them one by Orson Welles, and footage of the screen tests for Joan Fontaine, who won the starring role of the second Mrs. de Winter, opposite Laurence Olivier, as well as for also-rans Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan, Loretta Young and Olivier's then-wife Vivien Leigh ...... (Time.com)
More bios Oct 5, 2006
A tad too rapturous, and Thomson is given to random fantasizing, such as imagining Kidman in a remake of Hitchcock's Rebecca. -- S.W.. (USA Today -- Life)
Reynolds Ranch wins 3-2 approval Sep 1, 2006
By Rebecca AdlerNews-Sentinel Staff Writer Last updated: Thursday, Aug 31, 2006 - 09:53:03 am PDT ... Contact reporter Rebecca Adler at. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Hooked on Hitch Aug 11, 2006
That three-day series serves up some of the many Hitchcocks most movie fans know well: his great British comic-suspense delight "The Lady Vanishes" (1938), middle-period classics such as the gothic romance "Rebecca" (1940), the small-town psychological chiller "Shadow of a Doubt" (1943), the erotic Cary Grant-Ingrid Bergman spy thriller "Notorious" (1946) and the Jimmy Stewart-Kim Novak romance-tragedy "Vertigo" (1958) right up to his last two films, 1972's "Frenzy" and 1976's "Family Plot.".... (The Standard-Times, MA)
He listens to rhythms of life Aug 3, 2006
Rebecca Swain offers a different read on books. Attention must be paid. (Orlando Sentinel -- Entertainment)
Half-boiled homage merely melts away Jul 20, 2006
She can be a force of nature in the right role, kicking butt or showing her own, but she's never been the type to play a role like Rebecca, or another of Joan Fontaine's characters, the wife in Suspicion - films that might have been in the back of writer-director Craig Rosenberg's mind. The press notes say that Rosenberg, the Australian director of Hotel de Love, wrote Half Light some years ago then put it away, while he wrote scripts for the likes of Steven Spielberg and Wes Craven (which... (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Best of the worst at BAM Jul 14, 2006
Running through July 30, the retrospective features scoundrels from some of cinema's Golden Gods: Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," Orson Welles' "Touch of Evil," Joseph Mankiewicz's "All About Eve," plus double dervishes from Alfred Hitchcock ("Rebecca" and "Psycho," featuring the mother of all Freudian demons) and Frances Ford Coppola ("Apocalypse Now," "The Godfather, Part II"). Rounding out the program are monsters ("Dr. Jekyll yde"), mobsters ("Kiss of Death") voyeurs ("Peeping Tom"),... (Newsday -- New York City)
Page turners and seat fillers Jun 2, 2006
Rebecca Alfred Hitchcock (1940) Adapted by Philip MacDonald from the 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier. This was the novel that made Du Maurier's name, a classically English mystery influenced by Jane Eyre and Northanger Abbey. (Guardian Unlimited)
Obituaries in the News May 29, 2006
Moore died May 15 at Alta Bates Medical Center after a three-year battle with colon cancer, said her daughter, Rebecca Moore. "Fat Girl" was a thin book, deliberately designed to be consumed in an afternoon. (The Ledger)
Valedictorian Urges Classmates to Set Goals and Make Them Happen, Just Like Football May 18, 2006
PHOTO1: South Barber s Class of 2006 includes: (front l-r) Rebecca Rose, Lacey Bryant, Shawna Guyle, Brook Diel, Alex Prilliman, Jadde Hitchcock and Jessica Domnick; (2nd) Cody Christensen, Eric Molz, Dustin Gorden, Garrett Cook, John Myers, Todd Shelite, Justin Helmley and Mark Christensen; (3rd) Hope Blevins, Candi Watts, Amanda Fenderson, Alicia Guyle, Stormy Stewart, Michaela Sober and Emily Cundiff; (back) Joey Brattin, Matthew Swonger, Luke Ott, John Diel, Clint Gates, B.J. Swafford, Kurt... (Alva Review Courier, OK)
Rebecca remake on its way! May 15, 2006
Rebecca remake on its way ... Rebecca remake on its way ... " Rebecca is a 1940 Alfred Hitchcock classic. While Morea will play the part originally essayed by Laurence Olivier, an actress other than Jaitley or Mitra will play the title role."It s not a fullfledged role, but a guest appearance," says the director, adding, "Most of the film will be shot in Rajasthan as the producer is helping us get some locations which are otherwise not easily available. (Hindustan Times, India)
