The Criterion Channel’s June lineup has a little of everything: returning heroes, generative rock history, queer-cinema landmarks, wedding-day anxiety, punk provocation, and the birth of the modern movie spy. Beginning June 1, the streamer’s monthly slate folds together several big programming hooks, with the first three James Bond films, a Courtney Love spotlight, a Pride Month-ready LGBTQIA+ collection, and Brian Eno’s shape-shifting documentary “Eno” among the headliners.
The biggest contemporary premiere is “Eno,” Gary Hustwit’s generative documentary about the musician, producer, ambient pioneer, and former member of Roxy Music. The film premieres on June 16, with a new version featured each month. Created by Hustwit and digital artist Brendan Dawes using custom non-AI software, the project re-edits and resequences hundreds of hours of footage, interviews, and unreleased music into what Criterion describes as 52 quintillion possible versions. For a film about an artist whose career has been built around process, systems, randomness, and control, the format is the hook.
The month also brings the original James Bond run to the service, with “Dr. No,” “From Russia with Love,” and “Goldfinger” all joining the platform. The trio introduced Ian Fleming’s 007 to the screen and turned Sean Connery’s mix of danger, charm, and deadpan superiority into the franchise’s first—and still defining—screen image. Before the globetrotting mythology became an industrial machine, these films established the template: gadgets, villains, exotic locations, martinis, menace, and a star presence that did half the world-building before the plots even started moving.
Criterion’s “Odysseys” collection takes a broader view of journeys home, road movies, spiritual detours, and comic misadventures. The lineup includes Preston Sturges’ “Sullivan’s Travels,” John Ford’s “The Searchers,” Nicolas Roeg’s “Walkabout,” Martin Scorsese’s “After Hours,” David Lynch’s “The Straight Story,” Joel Coen’s “O Brother, Where Art Thou?,” and Wes Anderson’s “The Darjeeling Limited.” The series is coprogrammed by Sean Fennessey.
June also makes room for Courtney Love as an actor, collecting performances that show off a screen presence as messy, volatile, and alert as her music-world persona. The spotlight includes “Straight to Hell,” “Basquiat,” “The People vs. Larry Flynt,” “200 Cigarettes,” “Beat,” and “Trapped,” with Love moving through work by Alex Cox, Julian Schnabel, and Miloš Forman.
The Weddings collection leans into the ceremonial chaos of the season, pulling together films about ceremony, family performance, romantic uncertainty, and the emotional cost of the big day. The set includes Jacques Demy’s “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg,” Robert Altman’s “A Wedding,” Chantal Akerman’s “Golden Eighties,” P.J. Hogan’s “Muriel’s Wedding,” Sofia Coppola’s “Marie Antoinette,” Jonathan Demme’s “Rachel Getting Married,” and Lars von Trier’s “Melancholia.”
For Pride Month, Criterion is also launching a substantial LGBTQIA+ Favorites collection, ranging from Shirley Clarke’s “Portrait of Jason” and Derek Jarman’s “Jubilee” to Donna Deitch’s “Desert Hearts,” Jennie Livingston’s “Paris Is Burning,” Todd Haynes’ “Poison,” Cheryl Dunye’s “The Watermelon Woman,” Andrew Haigh’s “Weekend,” Paul B. Preciado’s “Orlando, My Political Biography,” Ray Yeung’s “All Shall Be Well,” and Alain Guiraudie’s “Misericordia.” The shorts side includes work by Dunye, Matt Wolf, Keisha Rae Witherspoon, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, Brit Fryer, Noah Schamus, and others.
Elsewhere, “The Love That Remains,” the fourth feature from Hlynur Pálmason (“Godland”), arrives with a new introduction by the filmmaker as part of Criterion’s Meet the Filmmakers series. Criterion Originals will feature John Waters’ Adventures in Moviegoing, tied to new home-video editions of “Hairspray” and “Desperate Living,” with Waters introducing a selection that includes “Brink of Life,” “The Naked Kiss,” “Wanda,” “Story of Women,” and “Last Summer.”
The restorations and rediscoveries section adds Shinji Somai’s “Typhoon Club” and Patrick Tam’s “Nomad,” two films built around youth in states of drift, panic, and release. Director spotlights include Alex Cox’s Punk Provocations, short films by Yann Gonzalez (“Knife+Heart”), and a major Eric Rohmer selection that spans “My Night at Maud’s,” “Claire’s Knee,” “Pauline at the Beach,” “The Green Ray,” and the four seasonal “Tales.”
The Hollywood Hits section adds “Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Wild at Heart,” and “Pacific Heights,” with Makoto Shinkai’s “The Garden of Words” representing the anime side. On the documentary front, Criterion is also spotlighting Hustwit’s design films “Helvetica,” “Objectified,” “Urbanized,” and “Rams,” alongside “Kedi” and Daniel Peddle’s two-film pairing of “The Aggressives” and “Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later.”
The June lineup starts streaming June 1, with “Eno” premiering June 16 and returning in a different form each month.
Complete list of films premiering on the Criterion Channel this month:
200 Cigarettes, Risa Bramon Garcia, 1999*
The Aggressives, Daniel Peddle, 2005
After Hours, Martin Scorsese, 1985
Beat, Gary Walkow, 2000
Beyond the Aggressives: 25 Years Later, Daniel Peddle, 2023
By the Kiss, Yann Gonzalez, 2006
Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Steven Spielberg, 1977
The Darjeeling Limited, Wes Anderson, 2007
Dr. No, Terence Young, 1962
Eno, Gary Hustwit, 2024 (premiering June 16)
From Russia with Love, Terence Young, 1963
Full Moon in Paris, Eric Rohmer, 1984
The Game, David Fincher, 1997*
The Garden of Words, Makoto Shinkai, 2013*
Goldfinger, Guy Hamilton, 1964
A Good Marriage, Eric Rohmer, 1982
The Harder They Come, Perry Henzell, 1973
Helvetica, Gary Hustwit, 2007
Highway Patrolman, Alex Cox, 1991
I Hate You Little Girls, Yann Gonzalez, 2008
Intermission, Yann Gonzalez, 2007
Islands, Yann Gonzalez, 2017
Kedi, Ceyda Torun, 2016
Land of My Dreams, Yann Gonzalez, 2012
The Lost Okoroshi, Abba Makama, 2019
Marie Antoinette, Sofia Coppola, 2006
Melancholia, Lars von Trier, 2011*
Motel Destino, Karim Aïnouz, 2024
Muriel’s Wedding, P. J. Hogan, 1994*
Newbies, Kimiko Matsuda-Lawrence and Megan Trufant Tillman, 2025
Nomad, Patrick Tam, 1982
O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Joel Coen, 2000
Objectified, Gary Hustwit, 2009
Pacific Heights, John Schlesinger, 1990
Pauline at the Beach, Eric Rohmer, 1983
The People vs. Larry Flynt, Miloš Forman, 1996
Rachel Getting Married, Jonathan Demme, 2008*
Rams, Gary Hustwit, 2018
Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984
The Searchers, John Ford, 1956
The Straight Story, David Lynch, 1999*
Straight to Hell, Alex Cox, 1987
Sullivan’s Travels, Preston Sturges, 1941
Three Celestial Bodies, Yann Gonzalez, 2009
Touki bouki, Djibril Diop Mambéty, 1973
Trapped, Luis Mandoki, 2002
Typhoon Club, Shinji Somai, 1985
Urbanized, Gary Hustwit, 2011
Walker, Alex Cox, 1987
WassupKaylee, Pepi Ginsberg, 2025
We Will Never Be Alone Again, Yann Gonzalez, 2012
A Wedding, Robert Altman, 1978
Wedding in White, William Fruet, 1972
Wild at Heart, David Lynch, 1990*
*Available in the U.S. only
Rodrigo Perez is the founder and editor-in-chief of The Playlist, which he launched in 2007. He has worked in entertainment journalism since 2000, including at MTV, and has written for SPIN, IndieWire, Pitchfork, Complex, Magnet, and various music, film, and entertainment publications over the past two decades.
