This Week on Blu-ray: October 28-November 3

For the week of October 28th, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release Sean Wang's Dìdi (弟弟), starring Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Mahaela Park and Raul Dial.

Description: In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy (Izaac Wang) learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

Universal's Blu-ray of Dìdi contains the featurette The Making of Dìdi.

New on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber is Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's The Falling Star (L'Étoile filante), starring Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel, Kaori Ito, Philippe Martz, Bruno Romy and Mélanie Depuiset.

Description: Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel (THE FAIRY, LOST IN PARIS) delight audiences with their blend of slapstick and burlesque. Their latest "crime movie" transmutes the codes of film noir through their characteristically colorful palette and clownish plot twists. Abel plays Boris, a former activist hiding from his dark past, keeping in the shadows as a barkeeper, until a one-armed vigilante finally hunts him down. The fortuitous appearance of a double—the depressive recluse Dom (also played by Abel) seems to offer the perfect decoy. But his tenacious and loopy ex-wife, the private eye Fiona (Gordon), could foil their master plan. Abel and Gordon's memorable dose of hilarity seems perfectly calibrated to the social mood; each deceptively minimalistic set piece brims with a cinematic intelligence that recalls Tati and Keaton. The cast features Philippe Martz and Bruno Romy and the Japanese dancer Kaori Ito, who plays a willful and hilariously unpredictable femme fatale.

Kino's Blu-ray of The Falling Star contains a theatrical trailer.

Also coming from Kino are a number of catalog titles on Blu-ray, as well as a 4K UHD release. They are:

A double-feature of Josh Binney's Hi-De-Ho / Boarding House Blues (1947-1948), starring Cab Calloway and Moms Mabely. Sourced from new 4K scans by the Library of Congress, Kino presents the double-feature with an introduction to Boarding House Blues by film historian Ina Archer, as well as the Soundies short films Minnie the Moocher (1942), Blues in the Night (1942) and We the Cats Shall Hep Ya (1945) (featuring Cab Calloway) and Shout! Sister, Shout! (1941), Hello Bill (1946), and I Want a Man (1946) (featuring Lucky Millinder).

The box set Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema XXII (1951-1957), which contains Bretaigne Windust and Raoul Walsh's The Enforcer (1951), Michael Curtiz's The Scarlet Hour (1956) and Hubert Cornfield's Plunder Road (1957). All three films are sourced from 2021 / 2022 4K scans by Paramount Pictures, and Kino presents them with new audio commentaries by author / film historian Alan K. Rode (on The Enforcer and The Scarlet Hour) and by film historian Jeremy Arnold (on Plunder Road), as well as a theatrical trailer for The Enforcer.

Claude Autant-Lara's Enough Rope (Le Meurtrier) (1963), starring Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Maurice Ronet, Yvonne Furneaux, Gert Fröbe and Harry Meyen. Sourced from a 4K remaster by TF1, Kino presents Enough Rope in French, with optional English subtitles. Extras include a new audio commentary by film historians David Del Valle and Dana M. Reemes, as well as a theatrical trailer.

Note: The trailer for Enough Rope posted below is in French, without subtitles.

A two-disc set of the anthology TV series The Classic Ghosts (1973), starring Vincent Gardenia, Hurd Hatfield, James Keach, Perry King, Robert McCallum, Carrie Nye, Susan Sarandon, Robin Strasser and Gwen Verdon. Newly remastered by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, this set contains all five episodes: The Haunting of Rosalind, The Screaming Skull, The Deadly Visitor, The House and the Brain, and And the Bones Came Together. Extras include interviews with Mark Quigley. Maya Montañez Smukler and Amanda Reyes, as well as a demonstration of 2" video technology.

Claude Miller's Deadly Circuit (Mortelle randonnée) (1983), starring Isabelle Adjani, Michel Serrault, Guy Marchand, Stéphane Audran, Macha Méril and Geneviève Page. Sourced from a 2K master from TF1, Kino presents Deadly Circuit with a new audio commentary by film historian / filmmaker Daniel Kremer, as well as a theatrical trailer.

And finally from Kino comes a 4K UHD upgrade for Alain Robak's Baby Blood (1990), starring Emmanuelle Escourrou, Jean-François Gallotte, Christian Sinniger, Alain Chabat, Michel Audiard and Roselyne Geslot. Sourced from a 2019 4K master, Kino presents Baby Blood with a choice of original French (with English subtitles) or dubbed English audio, and in 4K SDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include audio commentary by film historian Lee Gambin and film critic Jarret Gahan, as well as a theatrical trailer.

Coming to Blu-ray are five films and a TV series from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment's Warner Archive Collection. They are:

Michael Curtiz's The Walking Dead (1936), starring Boris Karloff, Ricardo Cortez, Edmund Gwenn, Marguerite Churchill, Warren Hull and Barton MacLane. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Walking Dead with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio.

W.S. Van Dyke and Robert Z. Leonard's Sweethearts (1938), starring Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Florence Rice and Mischa Auer. Sourced from new 4K scans of the Technicolor separation master positives, Warner Archive presents Sweethearts with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio.

Vincent Sherman's The Return of Doctor X (1939), starring Wayne Morris, Rosemary Lane, Humphrey Bogart, Dennis Morgan, John Litel, Lya Lys. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Return of Doctor X with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio.

Robert Florey's The Beast with Five Fingers (1946), starring Robert Alda, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Victor Francen, J. Carrol Naish and Charles Dingle. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original nitrate camera negative, Warner Archive presents The Beast with Five Fingers with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio.

A four-disc set for A Man Called Shenandoah: The Complete Series (1965-1966), starring Robert Horton. Sourced from a new 4K scans of the original nitrate camera negatives, Warner Archive presents A Man Called Shenandoah: The Complete Series with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio.

Christopher Guest's For Your Consideration (2006), starring Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer and Fred Willard. Warner Archive presents For Your Consideration with DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio.

Note: Extras for the above Warner Archive Collection titles are still to be confirmed as of this writing.

Also coming from Warner is a 4K UHD upgrade for Chuck Jones and Ben Washam's animated television special Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966), starring the voices of Boris Karloff, June Foray, Thurl Ravenscroft and Dal McKennon. Newly remastered, Warner presents Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! along with two later specials: Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977) and The Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat (1982). All three programs have HDR and DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono audio. Archival extras include audio commentary with June Foray and animator Phil Roman, the featurettes Dr. Seuss and the Grinch: From Whoville to Hollywood, Songs in the Key of Grinch and TNT's Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition, song selections and a Grinch pencil test.

Coming to Blu-ray from Radiance Films is the three-disc box set Daiei Gothic: Japanese Ghost Stories (1956-1968), which contains Kenji Misumi's The Ghost of Yotsuya (四谷怪談) (1956), Satsuo Yamamoto's The Bride from Hades (牡丹燈籠) (1968) and Tokuzô Tanaka's The Snow Woman (怪談雪女郎) (1968). All three films come with lossless mono audio and optional English subtitles, with The Ghost of Yotsuya sourced from an HD master and both The Bride from Hades and The Snow Woman sourced from new 4K masters. Extras include new video interviews with filmmakers Kiyoshi Kurosawa (on The Ghost of Yotsuya) and Masayuki Ochiai (on The Bride from Hades), new audio commentary on The Bride from Hades by author Jasper Sharp and trailers for all three films. Also included is a "limited edition 80-page perfect bound book featuring new writing by authors Tom Mes and Zack Davisson, newly translated archival reviews and ghost stories by Lafcadio Hearn". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review or click on the titles linked above to access his individual film reviews.

Also coming to Blu-ray from Radiance is Toshio Matsumoto's Dogra Magra (ドグラ・マグラ) (1988), starring Yôji Matsuda, Shijaku Katsura, Hideo Murota, Kyôko Enami, Eri Misawa and Fumio Watanabe. Sourced from an HD master (supervised by director of photography Tatsuo Suzuki and producer Shuji Shibata), Radiance presents Dogra Magra with lossless mono audio and optional, new and improved English subtitles. Extras include a 2003 audio commentary by Toshio Matsumoto, a 2003 interview with Matsumoto, a new visual essay by programmer and curator Julian Ross, instructions on how to perform the Ahodara Sutra chant in the film from street performer Hiroshi Sakano and a trailer. Also included is a "limited edition booklet featuring new writing by Hirofumi Sakamoto, president of the Postwar Japan Moving Image Archive and author Jasper Sharp on screenwriter Atsushi Yamatoya plus an interview with producer Shuji Shibata and Matsumoto's director's statement". For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.

Coming to 4K UHD from Shout Factory is Wes Craven's Shocker (1989), starring Michael Murphy, Peter Berg, Camille Cooper, Mitch Pileggi, Richard Brooks and Vincent Guastaferro. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents Shocker with a choice of DTS-HD MA 2.0, 5.1 or new Dolby Atmos audio tracks, and with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. New extras include interviews with Peter Berg, composer William Goldstein and production designer Cynthia Charette, while archival extras carried over from Shout's 2015 Blu-ray include two audio commentaries, interviews with Mitch Pileggi, Camille Cooper and executive producer Shep Gordon, the featurette No More Mr. Nice Guy - The Music of Shocker, a vintage making of featurette, TV and radio spots, a still gallery and a trailer.

Also coming to 4K UHD From Shout Factory is Sam Raimi's Drag Me to Hell (2009), starring Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao, David Paymer and Adriana Barraza. Sourced from a new 4K master (approved by Sam Raimi and editor Bob Murawski), Shout presents Drag Me to Hell in its unrated (on 4K UHD and Blu-ray) and theatrical (on Blu-ray) versions, with a choice of DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks, and with Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. New extras include the two-hour documentary Pardon My Curse: Making Drag Me To Hell, while archival extras carried over from Shout's 2018 Blu-ray include interviews with Alison Lohman, Lorna Raver and composer Christopher Young, production diaries, vintage interviews, TV spots, an image gallery and a trailer.

Coming to 4K UHD from Paramount Home Media Distribution is Barry Sonnenfeld's Addams Family Values (1993), starring Anjelica Huston, Raul Juliá, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci and Carol Kane. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Paramount presents Addams Family Values with Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. New extras include audio commentary by Barry Sonnenfeld and screenwriter Paul Rudnick, and the new / archive featurette Creating Family Values. For a full disc breakdown, read Martin Liebman's 4K UHD review.

Also coming from Paramount is a 4K UHD upgrade for David Fincher's Zodiac (2007), starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Mark Ruffalo, Robert Downey Jr., Anthony Edwards, Brian Cox and Charles Fleischer. Sourced from a new 4K master, Paramount presents Zodiac in its theatrical version, with Dolby Vision HDR and DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Two included legacy Blu-rays feature the director's cut of the film, its two audio commentaries, the feature-length documentary This is the Zodiac Speaking, the medium-length documentaries Zodiac Deciphered and Prime Suspect: His Name was Arthur Leigh Allen and more.

Finally this week, Arrow Video has two releases to offer. First is the Blu-ray box set J-Horror Rising (1999-2007), a four-disc set which includes Shunichi Nagasaki's Shikoku (死国) (1999), Masato Harada's Inugami (狗神) (2000), Toshiyuki Mizutani's Isola: Multiple Personality Girl (ISOLA 多重人格少女) (2000), Takashi Komatsu's Persona (弟切草) (2000), Ten Shimoyama's St. John's Wort (弟切草) (2001) and Kôji Shiraishi's Noroi: The Curse (ノロイ) (2005) and Carved: The Slit-Mouthed Woman (口裂け女) (2007). All films are presented from HD masters and with original DTS-HD MA 5.1 (or LPCM 2.0 for Persona) audio tracks and optional English subtitles. Extras include new audio commentaries for all of the films except Persona, new and archive interviews, new video essays, trailers, TV spots image galleries and more. Also included is an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by Eugene Thacker, Jasper Sharp, Anton Bitel, Amber T., Mark Player, Jim Harper and Sarah Appleton", Packaging includes a double-sided fold-out poster and collectible art cards. For a full set breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review or click on the titles linked above to access his individual film reviews.

Also coming to 4K UHD from Arrow is Michael Dougherty's Trick 'r Treat (2007), starring Quinn Lord, Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Leslie Bibb, Rochelle Aytes and Anna Paquin. Sourced from a 4K master by Arrow (approved by Michael Dougherty), they present Trick 'r Treat with original DTS-HD MA 5.1 or 2.0 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR. New extras include an audio commentary with Michael Dougherty, new interviews with Quinn Lord, production designer Mark Freeborn, director of photography Glen MacPherson, costume designer Trish Keating, creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos, a tribute to make-up effects designer Bill Terezakis, Archival extras include filmmaker commentary, featurettes, interviews, Dougherty's short film Season's Greetings (1996), additional scenes, artwork, still and comic book galleries, a trailer and more. Limited edition content includes an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Becky Darke and Heather Wixson", a double-sided fold-out poster and six art cards. In addition to standard packaging, an Arrow Exclusive with Original Artwork Slipcover will also be available.