Product Pricing
The retail list prices for Criterion Collection releases typically range from US$30 to US$40 for one-disc and two-discs sets, respectively. Criterion typically releases shorter films, for example Night and Fog (1955), below the company’s usual price range. Criterion DVDs (including two-disc editions) are typically US$10 less than their Blu-ray counterparts.
Janus Films' "Essential Art House" collection consists of Janus-owned Criterion movies without many special features, as lower-cost alternatives to individual purchases of regular Criterion titles.
Demand for out-of-print Criterion Collection releases has spawned the business of counterfeit (bootleg) copies, often advertised as a Criterion Collection "Asian" edition to disguise their bootleg nature. The company’s Web site instructs buyers to shop carefully, advises about identifying bootleg merchandise, and notes that the Criterion Collection never published Asian editions of its movie catalog.
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