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Though foreign-language talent gets short shrift from American studios and movie theaters, they are often honored with Oscars. Italians won for Original Score (Dario Marianelli, Atonement) and Art Direction (Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo, Sweeney Todd); two Frenchmen won for Makeup (Didier Lavergne, La Vie en Rose) and Live Action Short (Philippe Pollet-Villard, the director, writer and star of The Mozart of Pickpockets.) But one reason the Academy often gives Oscars to foreigners is that they seem really to want one. "Thank you, life, thank you, love," Cotillard exclaimed, as effusive as Sally Field or Halle Berry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big Evening for 80-Year-Old Oscar | 2/25/2008 | See Source »

...Francesca Gilberti...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 15 DINING HALL APHRODISIACS | 2/13/2008 | See Source »

...than just a visual feast. In fact, I think it comes closer than any Disney show since The Lion King to combining story, song and inventive staging into something that lifts our spirits and renews our faith that theater for "children" can be enjoyed by everyone. Acclaimed opera director Francesca Zambello, doing her first Broadway show, can't match Julie Taymor's innovative staging in The Lion King (but then, who can - not even Taymor since then), but she has the same inventive, less-is-more, determinedly theatrical approach. Instead of wires and pulleys or complicated stage effects to simulate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Little Mermaid: In Defense of Disney | 1/16/2008 | See Source »

...sourcing an even greater percentage of our fresh produce from New England farms.” Such phrasing demonstrates Harvard’s current situation: HUDS only incorporates some elements of sustainability into its dining halls—a local squash here and an organic apple there. According to Francesca T. Gilberti ’10, a Crimson magazine editor and leader of Harvard Slow Food—a local chapter of an international organization that promotes local, sustainable food—“In order for HUDS and the Food Literacy Project to initiate widespread change, they need...

Author: By Molly M. Strauss | Title: So Fresh and So Green, Green | 12/17/2007 | See Source »

...materials and tools will be limited. Mancusi-Ungaro has long had ties to Newman and the studio collection as co-author of “Barnett Newman: A Catalogue Raisonné,” a comprehensive catalogue of Newman’s work published by the Foundation. Francesca Bewer, a HUAM conservator, points to the donation of John Singer Sargent’s materials and tools in the 1920s as a significant gift of a similar nature. Part of the Forbes Collection of Materials of the Artist, the Sargent studio points to a long-standing interest in an artist?...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Newman Relics Find New Home at HUAM | 12/7/2007 | See Source »

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