RHAPSODIES IN BLU-RAY

A pair of new Blu-ray releases might make the perfect gifts for the cinephile on your list. Gary Cooper, Fredric March and Miriam Hopkins star in Ernst Lubitsch’s “Design for Living,” a pre-code comedy adapted from Noel Coward’s play “Brief Encounter.” The 1933 classic centers on a beautiful commercial artist courted by a dashing painter (Cooper) and a dashing playwright (March) that she meets on a train trip to Paris. Another train-centered film fan favorite, Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 comic thriller “The Lady Vanishes,” stars Margaret Lockwood as a woman traveling across Europe when she encounters a spinster (Dame May Whitty) who seems to disappear. The Blu-ray includes a high-definition digital restoration of the film, audio commentary by film historian Bruce Eder and excerpts from Francois Truffaut’s 1962 audio interview with Hitchcock.