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TOP STORIES
Odysseys
The road of return is studded with adventure, discovery, and surprise in these tales of epic quests that draw on one of literature’s most enduring narrative archetypes: the journey back home. Whether traversing the hardscrabble highways of Depression-era America (Sullivan’s Travels; O Brother, Where Art Thou?), the surreal labyrinth of New York City after dark (After Hours), or the elemental wilderness of the frontier (The Searchers, Walkabout), these by turns tragic, comic, mythic, and deeply personal tales of wanderers and seekers tap into the fundamental human yearning to find our way back to where we belong.
FEATURING: Sullivan’s Travels (1941), The Searchers (1956), Walkabout (1971), After Hours(1985), The Straight Story (1999),* O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Darjeeling Limited(2007)
Coprogrammed by Sean Fennessey
James Bond
The legend of cinema’s most iconic superspy begins here, with the trio of films that turned writer Ian Fleming’s suave secret agent James Bond into a global phenomenon. Featuring Sean Connery’s still-unmatched portrayal of 007—equal parts danger, charm, and wit—Dr. No, From Russia with Love, and Goldfinger established what would become the series’s signature elements: exotic locales, shadowy villains, ingenious gadgets, and indelible style. Among the most rewatchable blockbusters of all time, these thrillers laid the groundwork for one of the most influential and enduring franchises in film history.
FEATURING: Dr. No (1962), From Russia with Love (1963), Goldfinger (1964)
Starring Courtney Love
A performer of rare volatility and range, Courtney Love brings a feral intelligence and bruised glamour to the screen, meriting a place in cinematic culture alongside her hallowed stature in music. In films, Love is not merely an icon crossing mediums; her work with auteurs like Alex Cox (Straight to Hell), Julian Schnabel (Basquiat), and Miloš Forman (The People vs. Larry Flynt) reveals a deeply intuitive actor with an instinct for showcasing contradictory impulses: tenderness edged with danger, charisma undercut by disarming rawness. Messy, magnetic, and defiantly alive, Love’s is a screen presence that resists containment.
FEATURING: Straight to Hell (1987), Basquiat (1996), The People vs. Larry Flynt (1996), 200 Cigarettes (1999),* Beat (2000), Trapped (2002)
Weddings
With wedding season upon us, take a walk down the aisle of some of cinema’s most unforgettable nuptials. Focusing on the lead-up to and spectacle of the big day itself, these films dramatize the often-conflicting dreams, desires, and fears that bring two people together before the altar, with directors like Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette), Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married), and Lars von Trier (Melancholia) examining the emotional ambivalence and intersecting familial expectations surrounding the main event. Replete with will-they-won’t-they romantic tension, simmering family drama, and extravagant mise-en-scène, these films look past the pageantry to reveal the fractures that underpin the promise of “happily ever after.”
FEATURING: The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964), Wedding in White (1972), A Wedding (1978), Golden Eighties (1986), Muriel’s Wedding (1994),* Marie Antoinette (2006), Rachel Getting Married (2008),* Melancholia (2011)*
LGBTQ+ Favorites
Proud, rebellious, colorful, intimate, and frank, these essential visions of LGBTQ+ life find boundary-pushing filmmakers turning the richness of the queer experience into indelible art. From taboo-shattering art-house classics to defining works of the 1990s New Queer Cinema explosion to contemporary showstoppers from emerging talents, these films represent just a sample of the wide world of queer cinema, but they offer a taste of its breadth, creativity, and defiance in the face of adversity.
FEATURING: Portrait of Jason (1967), Pink Narcissus (1971), Je tu il elle (1975), Regrouping(1976), Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977), Jubilee (1978), Querelle (1982), Born in Flames (1983), The Times of Harvey Milk (1984), Desert Hearts (1985), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Mala Noche (1985), Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989), Paris Is Burning (1990), Poison (1991), Totally F***d Up (1993), Fresh Kill (1994), The Watermelon Woman (1996), Nowhere (1997), Benjamin Smoke (2000), Lan Yu (2001), The Aggressives (2005), Weekend (2011), So Pretty (2019), Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (2023), Orlando, My Political Biography (2023), All Shall Be Well (2024), Daughter’s Daughter (2024), Misericordia (2024)
STREAMING PREMIERES
Eno
Premiering June 16, with a new version featured each month
A documentary as innovative as its subject, this kaleidoscopic portrait of visionary musician, producer, and self-described “sonic landscaper” Brian Eno is a different experience every time it’s shown. Using custom non-AI software, director Gary Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes created the world’s first generative feature film, which endlessly reedits and resequences hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, interviews, and unreleased music into 52 quintillion (or 52 billion billion) possible permutations. Chronicling Eno’s legendary contributions to the band Roxy Music, his influential work as a pioneer of ambient music, and his producing career for artists like David Bowie, U2, and Talking Heads, Eno is a fittingly form-breaking tribute to an artist who changed the way modern music is made.
The Love That Remains
Featuring a new introduction by director Hlynur Pálmason, part of Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series
Suffused with tenderness and deadpan humor, The Love That Remains asks: What happens when a relationship ends but the bonds of caring endure? Moving unpredictably through four seasons in the lives of a separating couple—artist Anna (Saga Garðarsdóttir) and fisherman Magnus (Sverrir Guðnason)—and their three children, Hlynur Pálmason’s fourth feature is as vibrantly attuned to the ebb and flow of domestic routine as it is to the stark, spectacular landscape of coastal Iceland. Juggling intimate scenes of adults at work and children at play with wild intrusions of surrealism, this strange and poignant film is a rare study of family life in all its beauty and confusion.
CRITERION ORIGINALS
John Waters’ Adventures in Moviegoing
With Criterion Editions of Hairspray and Desperate Living coming to home video this month, there’s no better time to watch the Pope of Trash discuss his formative moviegoing memories and introduce a selection of favorites.
FEATURING: Brink of Life (1958), The Naked Kiss (1964), Wanda (1970), Story of Women(1988), Last Summer (2023)
REDISCOVERIES AND RESTORATIONS
Typhoon Club
A work of raw, elemental power widely regarded as director Shinji Somai’s finest achievement, this intensely visceral take on the coming-of-age film follows an ensemble of junior-high students in a provincial town beset by a summertime malaise as a typhoon looms. When the storm makes landfall, the teens find themselves holed up in their school unsupervised, while another classmate (Yuki Kudo) disappears alone on a harrowing trek to the big city. Set adrift in a world suddenly unmoored, the students let loose their pent-up angst and burgeoning passions in a series of propulsive, phantasmic scenes—part apocalypse, part utopia—as the deluge rages on into the night. In daring long takes, Somai gives material form to the students’ turbulent inner lives.
Nomad
An audacious blast of pop subversion, this touchstone of the Hong Kong New Wave by director Patrick Tam begins as a blissed-out portrait of carefree youth—and continually spins off into ever more shocking realms. In his breakthrough role, golden boy Leslie Cheung stars as one of a quartet of beautiful drifters who spend their days staving off ennui through the pursuit of hedonistic pleasure, until a figure from the past reappears to shatter their idyll. Merging genre-cinema gloss with jolts of avant-garde disruption, Tam arrives at a sublimely destabilizing vision of youthful abandon giving way to harrowing reality.
CRITERION COLLECTION EDITIONS
Fresh Kill (Shu Lea Cheang, 1994)
Criterion Collection Edition #1310
A lesbian couple is drawn into a sinister conspiracy involving corporate greenwashing, toxic waste, and their daughter’s disappearance in this audacious ecosatire.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Interviews with director Shu Lea Cheang and actor Sarita Choudhury, a discussion with Cheang for the film’s thirtieth anniversary, a program on the 2024 theatrical rerelease of the film and Cheang’s self-distribution, and more.
The Game (David Fincher, 1997)*
Criterion Collection Edition #627
An invitation to a mysterious game upends a wealthy investment banker’s calculated existence in David Fincher’s noirish descent into one man’s personal hell.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Fincher and cast and crew members, behind-the-scenes footage, and more.
Martha Graham: Dance on Film
Criterion Collection Edition #406
Celebrate the centennial of the Martha Graham Dance Company with this sampling of the legendary choreographer’s stunning craft.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Martha Graham: The Dancer Revealed, a 1994 documentary produced for PBS’s American Masters series; excerpts from a television pilot featuring composer Aaron Copland discussing his work on Appalachian Spring; and more.
The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell, 1972)
Criterion Collection Edition #83
In the reggae film that brought Rasta rhythms to the world, genre legend Jimmy Cliff stars as a rural musician chasing fame in Kingston—only to achieve notoriety as an outlaw.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by director Perry Henzell and Jimmy Cliff and an interview with Island Records founder Chris Blackwell.
After Hours (Martin Scorsese, 1985)
Criterion Collection Edition #1185
An uptown office worker’s downtown hookup spirals into a late-night odyssey of surreal menace in Martin Scorsese’s darkly comic cult classic.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: A conversation between Scorsese and writer Fran Lebowitz; audio commentary by Scorsese, editor Thelma Schoonmaker, director of photography Michael Ballhaus, actor and producer Griffin Dunne, and producer Amy Robinson; and more.
The Darjeeling Limited (Wes Anderson, 2007)
Criterion Collection Edition #540
Wes Anderson directs this dazzling comedy about three estranged brothers forced to confront their emotional baggage on a soul-searching train voyage across India.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by Anderson and cowriters Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola, a discussion between Anderson and filmmaker James Ivory on the music used in the film, a behind-the-scenes documentary, and more.
Repo Man (Alex Cox, 1984)
Criterion Collection Edition #654
A veteran repo man and his punk protégé chase a mysterious Chevy Malibu across a desolate LA in this grungily hilarious cult favorite.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by director Alex Cox and cast and crew members, deleted scenes, a roundtable discussion about the making of the film, and more.
Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1941)
Criterion Collection Edition #118
A Hollywood director posing as a hobo in his quest to make a socially conscious film finds romance and comic chaos on his journey across Depression-era America.
SUPPLEMENTAL FEATURES: Audio commentary by filmmakers Noah Baumbach, Kenneth Bowser, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean; the documentary Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer (1990); and more.
DIRECTOR SPOTLIGHTS
Alex Cox’s Punk Provocations
A patron saint of punk cinema and borderless storytelling, Alex Cox remains one of the greatest subversives to ever pick up a camera, a rebel auteur who blends gonzo surrealism, anarchic irreverence, and blistering anticapitalist and anti-imperialist critique. From the radioactive deadpan of the sci-fi comedy Repo Man to the hallucinatory fever dream of his audacious biopic Walker, his films burn with a restless outsider energy, while smuggling politics, poetry, and outré humor into every frame.
FEATURING: Repo Man (1984), Straight to Hell (1987), Walker (1987), Highway Patrolman(1991)
Fantasy and Fear: Short Films by Yann Gonzalez
Sexy, surreal, and darkly stylish, the short films of French director Yann Gonzalez (Knife+Heart) capture ecstatic moments of human (and sometimes beyond human) connection, merging throbbing eroticism with a charge of giallo-like menace to probe the inextricable links between love, sex, death, and transcendence. Shot in ravishing neon-noir style and submerged in hypnotic synth soundscapes, these fearlessly queer fusions of art and pop cinema—including the beautifully kinky, strangely life-affirming monster movie Islands—pulse with polymorphous sexuality and gothic romanticism.
FEATURING: By the Kiss (2006), Intermission (2007), I Hate You Little Girls (2008), Three Celestial Bodies (2009), We Will Never Be Alone Again (2012), Land of My Dreams (2012), Islands (2017)
Directed by Eric Rohmer
Among the most singular, miraculous bodies of work in all of cinema, the films of French auteur Eric Rohmer constitute a genre unto themselves. Gently existential, hyperarticulate character studies set against vivid seasonal landscapes, these dialogue-driven yet gracefully cinematic films probe universal moral questions about love, desire, and the intricacies of connection with wry humor and an invitingly relaxed naturalism. From the wintry philosophical parable My Night at Maud’s to the sublime summertime melancholy of The Green Ray to the autumnal emotional maturity of Love in the Afternoon, his work is evergreen in its piercing insight into human contradiction and folly.
FEATURES: Suzanne’s Career (1963), La collectionneuse (1967), My Night at Maud’s (1969), Claire’s Knee (1970), Love in the Afternoon (1972), A Good Marriage (1982), Pauline at the Beach (1983), Full Moon in Paris (1984), The Green Ray (1986), A Tale of Springtime (1990), A Tale of Winter (1992), A Tale of Summer (1996), A Tale of Autumn (1998)
SHORTS: Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak (1951), Véronique and Her Dunce (1958), The Bakery Girl of Monceau (1963), Nadja in Paris (1964), A Modern Coed (1966)
HOLLYWOOD HITS
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
With Steven Spielberg’s Disclosure Day in theaters this month, there’s no better time to revisit his sci-fi landmark, an awe-inspiring vision of contact with extraterrestrial life.
Wild at Heart*
Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern are outlaw lovers on the run in David Lynch’s berserk blend of nightmare noir, southern-gothic soap opera, and surreal Americana.
Pacific Heights
It’s the ultimate yuppie nightmare when a young couple rents their spare apartment to a psychopath in this twisted thriller starring a memorably villainous Michael Keaton.
ANIME
The Garden of Words*
Visionary animator Makoto Shinkai (Your Name) explores the universal search for connection through the story of a bittersweet summertime friendship between a teenage boy and a mysterious woman.
DOCUMENTARIES
Gary Hustwit: Documentary by Design
From the cities we live in to the products we use every day to the typefaces we communicate through, how do the subtle but impactful forces of design shape our lives? That’s the question at the heart of the illuminating documentaries of Gary Hustwit (Eno), who invites us to see the world around us with fresh eyes. Whether delving deep into the story behind one of the world’s most recognizable fonts (Helvetica) or breaking down the complex art of urban planning (Urbanized), Hustwit’s films reveal the often hidden connections between design, psychology, and human behavior.
FEATURING: Helvetica (2007), Objectified (2009), Urbanized (2011), Rams (2018)
PREMIERING JUNE 16: Eno (2024)
Kedi
See the vibrant metropolis of Istanbul through the eyes of the street cats who roam the city freely and have become essential parts of the communities they inhabit.
Two Films by Daniel Peddle: The Aggressives and Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later
Filmed in New York City between 1997 and 2003, Daniel Peddle’s The Aggressives broke new ground in cinematic representation with its bold, unfiltered immersion into the lives of trans men and masculine-presenting lesbians of color who defy social expectations in their quest to live authentically. Peddle revisits the trailblazing subjects of the original film in Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, a timely, intimate update that captures their ongoing struggles and hard-won victories in a world shaped by the turbulence of ICE arrests and evolving attitudes toward trans rights and health care.
FEATURING: The Aggressives (2005), Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later (2023)
TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY CINEMA
The Lost Okoroshi
A Kafkaesque transformation into a mute purple spirit sends an average security guard on a surreal journey through the city of Lagos.
Motel Destino
Loyalties and desires intertwine at a roadside sex hotel under the burning blue skies of the Brazilian coast in this feverishly erotic tropical noir.
SHORT FILMS
LGBTQ+ Shorts
Stories of self-discovery, self-acceptance, and the simple but radical, often dangerous act of just existing as a queer person are on display in these empathetic and innovative shorts, which reflect the wide spectrum of experiences that make up the LGBTQ+ rainbow.
FEATURING: Greetings from Washington, D.C. (1981), Janine (1990), She Don’t Fade (1991), Pull Your Head to the Moon: Stories of Creole Women (1992), Vanilla Sex (1992), Gender Troublemakers (1993), The Potluck and the Passion (1993), Snowfire (1994), Greetings from Africa (1996), I Remember: A Film About Joe Brainard (2012), Blood Below the Skin (2015), The Foundation (2015), Vámonos (2015), Bayard & Me (2017), T (2019), Rupert Remembers(2000), Another Hayride (2021), i get so sad sometimes (2021), The Man of My Dreams (2021), Bold Eagle (2022), A Place on the Edge of Breath (2022), How to Carry Water (2023), MnM(2023), The Script (2023), Vermont (2023), The Callers (2024), God Is Good (2024), Grace(2024), One Day This Kid (2024), Newbies (2025)
WassupKaylee
A young content creator learns how far she’ll go for a chance at viral fame in this clear-eyed and compassionate look at coming of age in an era of parasocial intimacy.
Newbies
On a neon-drenched New York City night, two strangers wrestle with queer longing and desire as events rewind to reveal what broke them.