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The Criterion Closet is a film closet owned and stocked by The Criterion Collection, a home video distribution company based in New York City with a specific emphasis on licensing, restoring, and distributing "important classic and contemporary films."
Deep Cover made its home media debut via VHS on November 4, 1992. The DVD debuted on September 14, 1999 in a barebones snapper case with Dolby Digital 5.1 and 2.0 tracks for audio. The film was then released on Blu-ray Disc for the first time by the Criterion Collection on July 13, 2021, featuring a new 4K digitally restored transfer and ...
Page Smith (September 6, 1917 – August 28, 1995) was an American historian, professor and author. In 1964 he became the founding Provost of Cowell College, University of California, Santa Cruz and resigned from the university in 1973 in protest. As an activist, he was a lifelong advocate for homeless people, for community organization, and ...
David Bordwell, an influential film scholar and longtime professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, died Feb. 29 after battling a “long illness,” according to the university. He was 76.
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The company was founded in 1984 by Robert Stein, Aleen Stein and Joe Medjuck, who later were joined by Roger Smith.In 1985, the Steins, William Becker and Jonathan B. Turell founded the Voyager Company [8] to publish educational multimedia CD-ROMs (1989–2000), [8] [9] and the Criterion Collection became a subordinate division of the Voyager Company, with Janus Films holding a minority stake ...
The Criterion Collection introduced audio commentary on the LaserDisc format, which was able to accommodate multiple audio tracks.The first commentary track, for the 1933 film King Kong, was recorded by Ronald Haver, a curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and was inspired by the stories Haver told while supervising the film-to-video transfer process. [1]
Smith-IIA can sometimes be taken to mean independence of non-Smith irrelevant alternatives, i.e. that no losing candidate outside the Smith set can affect the result.[citation needed] This differs slightly from the above definition, in that methods passing independence of irrelevant alternatives (but not the Smith criterion) also satisfy this definition of Smith-IIA.