New Releases for March 18 2025

BABYGIRL (2024)

A high-powered CEO (Nicole Kidman) puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern (Harris Dickinson) in this bold, sensuous exploration of power and desire from Halina Reijn (Bodies Bodies Bodies). Also starring Antonio Banderas and Sophie Wilde. (4K ULTRA HD and BLU-RAY)

WOMAN OF PARIS (1923) (CRITERION)

Remarkable for its psychological nuance and its boldly modern perspective on an independent woman’s search for fulfillment, Charlie Chaplin’s long-overlooked silent masterpiece A Woman of Paris is a revelation. Chaplin confounded 1923 audiences with this unexpected foray into serious drama, and by ceding the spotlight to his longtime screen partner Edna Purviance. She is captivating as the vivacious Marie St. Clair, a “woman of fate” who leaves behind her small-minded village for the glamour of Paris, where she finds herself at the center of a Jazz Age whirl of champagne soirees, luxurious pleasure-seeking, romance, and tragedy. Putting aside his Little Tramp persona, Chaplin’s second feature proved that, beyond being a comic genius, he was an artist of immense sensitivity and human understanding. (BLU-RAY and DVD)

LOSING GROUND (1982) 

Written and directed by renowned playwright, author, and filmmaker Kathleen Collins, Losing Ground is a brilliant portrait of a marriage at a crossroads. Just as philosophy professor Sara Rogers (Seret Scott, Pretty Baby) embarks on an intellectual quest for "ecstasy," her artist husband Victor (Bill Gunn, Ganja & Hess) sets off on more earthly explorations of joy. When the couple rents a country house upstate, their summer idyll becomes complicated by Victor's involvement with a young model. One of the first feature films by an African-American woman, Losing Ground was undistributed for decades before it premiered theatrically in 2015. Added to the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress in 2020, it is now heralded as a canonical work of American independent cinema. (BLU-RAY)

ON THE SILVER GLOBE (1988) (MASTERS OF CINEMA) (Region B)

An uncompromising visionary and a true maverick of European cinema, the Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present Andrzej Żuławski's On the Silver Globe on Blu-ray. Żuławski's masterpiece about a team of astronauts who land on a desolate planet and start a new society. When filming was 80% complete, the Polish government ordered the production to be shut down and all the negatives be destroyed. Miraculously, the original film reels were preserved and ten years later the film was presented at the Cannes Film Festival to great acclaim. (BLU-RAY)

WOMEN WHO RUN HOLLYWOOD (2016-2023)

For the past two decades, Paris-born filmmakers Clara Kuperberg and Julia Kuperberg have created documentaries that capture the essence of filmmakers and performers whose work define their times, and who have come to inspire generations of aspiring artists. In this four-film collection, the sibling filmmakers focus on those boundary-breaking women who, by force of enormous talent and sheer determination, broke the glass ceiling and established themselves as influential filmmakers within the male-dominated film industry. The Women Who Run Hollywood (2016) pays homage to the first generation of women screenwriters and directors, who were integral to the evolution of cinema, both as a language and as an industry. Mary Pickford, a Blessing and a Curse (2023) profiles the silent-era superstar who leveraged her popularity as an actress to become her own producer, and eventually was one of the founders of United Artists. Dorothy Arzner: Pioneer, Queer, Feminist (2023) examines the uncompromising life and work of essentially the only woman working as a director in the 1930s studio system. Ida Lupino: Gentlemen & Miss Lupino (2021) observes the actress with a penchant for film noir, who fearlessly confronted such taboo topics as unwed motherhood, sexual assault, and bigamy. (DVD)