Availability
As of 2010, the films are not available on mass-market DVDs, and according to the press release for the 2010 US tour, the cycle "is Not Now Nor Will it Ever be Available on DVD". The films are primarily available via periodic screenings, and in bootleg versions, as on peer-to-peer networks.
Palm Pictures, the distributor, has not made the series available on DVD, though there were some rumors and announcements to this effect in 2003. So far, only an excerpt, "The Order" (from episode 3) has been released on mass-market DVD.
The full series was released in a limited series of 20 sets of DVDs, sold each for at least $100,000, in custom packaging – as fine art, rather than mass-market movies. In 2007 one disc (Cremaster 2) sold for $571,000.
Read more about this topic: The Cremaster Cycle
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