Rebecca Hall talks Vicky Christina Barcelona

Rebecca Hall: The First Female Woody?

Posted 8/15/2008 on SpoutBlog

Not to make a career out of Woody Allen apologia, but I thought it was interesting to see critics slam Vicky Cristina Barcelona for what they perceive as Woody Allen’s misogyny when, for the first time as far as I can tell, he’s cast a woman in the typical Woody Allen role, which you’d think would be a step-up from the typical Woody Allen woman-as-love-interest paradigm.  ...

‘Vicky Christine Barcelona’ Is Old School Woody Allen, If You Like That Sort of Thing [Movie Review]

Posted 8/15/2008 on Film School Rejects

Woody Allen’s latest film Vicky Christina Barcelona is being hailed by some critics as the director’s return to greatness. I suppose that’s the case if you like classic Woody Allen from his heyday. I’m talking the Annie Hall years when he focused on talky, neurotic New Yorkers in perpetual therapy. I prefer his really early stuff (like Take the Money and Run ) or his more recent stuff ...

The Old Men & The Threes

Posted 8/15/2008 on Thighs Wide Shut

Vicky Cristina Barcelona A Latesummer Night's Sex Dramedy Trailers & Mo The two names that proceed Barcelona in the title are two American tourists BFFs who are spending a month long holiday in Spain's second largest city before heading back to reality. Vicky ( Rebecca Hall , with the film's finest performance, which is saying something considering how great everyone else is), ...

Opening August 15: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Posted 8/12/2008 on Starpulse Entertainment News Blog

Penélope Cruz , Javier Bardem , and Rebecca Hall star in legendary filmmaker Woody Allen's tale of romance and misunderstanding set in the famed Spanish city of Barcelona. Pictures / Video / More

Rebecca Hall, Rachel Hurd-Wood Join 'Dorian Gray'

Posted 8/10/2008 on Cinematical

Colin Firth and Ben Barnes alone do not an Oscar Wilde adaptation make -- and with filming on Dorian Gray having already started (more on that in a moment), it's a good thing they filled out the rest of the cast! Variety reports that just about every British actor not working on Harry Potter or The Tudors has signed on. Rebecca Hall is probably the most notable addition -- IMDB claims ...

The New Yorker's review of Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Posted 8/10/2008 on OH NO!!

Woody Allen’s “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” has a natural, flowing vitality to it, a sun-drenched splendor that never falters. Two young American women go to Barcelona for the summer—Vicky (Rebecca Hall), who is bright, skeptical, and cautious, and Cristina (Scarlett Johansson), more adventurous than her friend but unformed and easily dissatisfied, a seeker without a lodestar. In the magnificent ...

There Are Many New Faces Of Dorian Gray

Posted 8/9/2008 on Cinema Blend News

Rebecca Hall and others join Barnes and Firth

Rebecca Hall joins the cast of DORIAN GRAY

Posted 8/9/2008 on Original Sharp Says...

English actress REBECCA HALL is the latest signing for Oliver Parker's upcoming production DORIAN GRAY . Based on THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, the only full length novel of writer/playwright Oscar Wilde , the story tells the tale of the title character and the deadly vanity that possesses him. Hall (The Prestige, Bronte) is thought to be playing Lady Victoria Wooten, wife of Lord Henry ...

Dream fulfilled for 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona's' Rebecca Hall

Published 8/13/2008 on L.A. Times - Movie News

IT WASN'T likely that Rebecca Hall was going to be able to sneak quietly into an acting career in England. Her father is one of the world's most renowned theater directors, Peter Hall. Of course, in the less-than-stage-crazed United States, that ...