• File this under the pleasant surprise category: Election, Alexander Payne's superb satire of American politics set in a high school, will get the high-definition treatment on Blu-ray disc on Jan. 20 -- Inauguration Day -- courtesy of Paramount Home Entertainment. Other catalog titles the studio is preparing to release on the format include Ghost, the Farrelly Brothers comedy The Heartbreak Kid and last year's Oscar-nominated Into the Wild.

• The folks at the Criterion Collection are readying two cult classics that have never received a home video release in the United States. Sam Fuller's controversial 1982 thriller White Dog, about a stray German shepherd trained by its former owners to attack African-Americans on sight, and Europa, director Lars Von Trier's surreal reverie on World War II (which was released here under the title Zooropa), are both due in December.

-- RENE RODRIGUEZ

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