One gem for November, and several films I could care less about.

The Lady Vanishes (1938)
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   SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET FEATURES:
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   New, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   Audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder
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   Crook's Tour, a 1941 feature-length Charters and Caldicott adventure, available for the first time on home video, with Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne reprising their beloved The Lady Vanishes roles
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   Excerpts from Francois Truffaut's legendary 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock
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   Mystery Train, a new video essay about Hitchcock and The Lady Vanishes by scholar Leonard Leff (Hitchcock and Selznick: The Rich and Strange Collaboration of Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick in Hollywood) Stills gallery of behind-the-scenes photos and promotional art
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   PLUS: A new essays by critic Geoffrey O'Brien

Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)

   New, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   Audio commentary by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
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   Video introduction by Ingmar Bergman from 2003
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   New and improved English subtitle translation
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   PLUS: A new essay by critic John Simon and an appreciation by filmmaker Catherine Breillat

Drunken Angel (1948) 

   New, restored high-definition digital transfer
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   New audio commentary featuring Japanese-film scholar Donald Richie
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   A 30-minute documentary on the making of Drunken Angel
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   A new video piece that looks at the challenges Kurosawa faced in making Drunken Angel
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   PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by cultural historian Ian Buruma and a reprint from Kurosawa's Something Like an Autobiography

And thank the lord it's finally arrived . . .

Berlin Alexanderplatz (1980)

   SPECIAL EDITION SEVEN-DISC SET FEATURES
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   New high-definition digital transfer, from the 2006 restoration by the Fassbinder Foundation and Bavaria Media, and supervised and approved by director of photography Xaver Schwarzenberger
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   Two new documentaries by Fassbinder Foundation president Juliane Lorenz: one featuring interviews with the cast and crew, the other on the restoration
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   Hans Dieter Hartl's 1980 documentary The Making of "Berlin Alexanderplatz"
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   Phil Jutzi's 1931, ninety-minute film of Alfred Doblin's novel, from a screenplay cowritten by Doblin himself
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   New video interview with Peter Jelavich, author of Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture
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   New and improved English subtitle translation
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   PLUS: An essay by filmmaker Tom Tykwer, reflections from Fassbinder, an interview with Schwarzenberger, and German author Thomas Steinfeld on the novel