We’re not talking about mass-market movies, the DVDs of which you can pick up at your local hypermarket for just a few $currency_units. We’re talking about the "great movies". These are often only available in rather expensive editions that are rarely discounted substantially, such as the Criterion Collection in the English-speaking world. Not only are these editions expensive in terms of their list price, but in most of the world they are not available locally, and if you wish to order them, you must pay substantial shipping fees and deal with customs hassles.
Also, your 100 DVDs is nothing when the canon of great films in the opinion of most film scholars would easily approach a thousand titles.
> rather expensive editions that are rarely discounted substantially, such as the Criterion Collection
Criterion's web store (https://www.criterion.com/shop) has sales all the time. There's one on right now through June 15 that gives you 30% off all titles. I picked up two titles through a 50% off sale last month. Subscribe to their email list or follow them on social media and they'll give you a heads up when the next one is coming.
Criterion’s web store won’t ship abroad, because Criterion’s licensing agreement with the rights owners stipulates that they will only sell to North American consumers. So, sales there are little help to cinephiles elsewhere.
Can you please elaborate what movies i can't get at amazon?
I'm serious.
I'm only aware of this issue for specific smaller docus which haven't been aired much and not much interest exists. I had to buy that from different countries etc.
Also, your 100 DVDs is nothing when the canon of great films in the opinion of most film scholars would easily approach a thousand titles.