Thursday, May 19, 2005

style wars: what happened?

Style Wars is a really cool documentary about early hip hop. The focus is on graffiti artists in New York City in the early 80's. It was re-released on DVD in 2003. However, it seems to have already gone out of print. Plexifilm, which released the DVD, no longer lists it on their web site. Amazon doesn't have any new copies for sale. The Style Wars website takes orders, but payment is via Paypal!

Does anyone know what happened?

Update: Netflix lists it now. There are also new copies available on Amazon. The studio is Music Video Dist. and the release date is August 23, 2005. I wonder if it was re-re-released.

Update: The wayback machine indicates that Plexifilm stopped distributing the DVD sometime between April and June 2004: April and then June, look for "PLEASE NOTE: THE STYLE WARS DVD IS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE."