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Before he established himself at the forefront of the study of Soviet economics, Bergson won acclaim for the “Bergson social welfare function,” according to Paul A. Samuelson, an MIT professor emeritus of economics and Nobel laureate who described Bergson as his “oldest and dearest friend at Harvard...
Sequels--whether to movies or to wars--rarely receive more acclaim than the originals. Not so in the video-game world. The 11th installment in Nintendo's Zelda series, Wind Waker (GameCube, $49.99), was released last week after racking up a record 600,000 preorders. Fans of 1998's Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time--hailed by many as the greatest console game ever--will not be disappointed. Set centuries after Ocarina, Wind Waker takes the form of a pirate-ship quest across an oceanic world. Legendary designer Shigeru Miyamoto (Mario Bros., Donkey Kong) has packed the adventure with echoes...
...theater, film and painting. It seems an unlikely spot for a battle. But this week a major salvo will be fired, as advertising millionaire and art collector Charles Saatchi opens his much-anticipated new gallery, just a riverside stroll away from his archrival, Tate Modern, which opened to huge acclaim in 2000. Saatchi is one of the art world's most notorious figures, having used his wealth to shape a generation of British art. He favors works that make big, confrontational gestures, like Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (an entire preserved...
...country's censors don't pay much attention to films showing in the documentary genre at foreign festivals. Inside China, audiences for documentaries are virtually nil. (The only venues for documentaries are the state-run TV stations least likely to run them.) Still, the lack of domestic acclaim frustrates many filmmakers. Says Jacob Wong, who selects documentaries for Hong Kong's International Film Festival: "Most of these independent filmmakers make just one or two films and then give...
...wily victim. It's also a good movie in Hollywood epic style: a precise, conventional melodrama that teems with acute observations on the behavior of besieged people in ever more extreme circumstances. Last night, when Polanski's name was announced, cheers could be heard. Scorsese rose in acclaim. A camera caught Nicholson, applauding robustly. Whatever jokes might have occurred to Martin and his writers' entourage, he kept them private...