[...] movie returned to DVD courtesy of the Warner Archive is Victor/Victoria. (I covered the other two, S.O.B. and Skin Deep, last month.) It’s also the best of the three, with its bizarre plot — a [...]

I’m still a little surprised that V/V isn’t considered worthy enough for a manufacturing run to keep it in print conventionally. But then again, they have the sales records to justify these decisions, and it’s much better to have it available, no matter how.

of course, with Walmarts carrying fewer and fewer discs, Blockbusters going out of business and Best Buy supposedly thisclose to imploding, I’m not sure that conventionally manufactured wide releases are going to be that common for most long tail movies.

[...] Along with S.O.B. and Victor/Victoria, a third Blake Edwards comedy has returned to DVD [...]

What surprised me was that a movie as well received and fairly well-known as Victor-Victoria was also being released as Warner Archive instead of a more traditional release. S.O.B. and Skin Deep I can see, as they were not hits by any means, but V/V was critically well received, nominated for awards and even eventually adapted for the stage if I remember correctly. I guess the Warner Archive concept is gaining some traction if they are releasing films of this caliber using the methodology.