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This June, the Criterion Channel celebrates Pride Month with a lineup full of queer artists who have taken up the camera to expand our understanding of desire, identity, and history. At the center of the month is Queersighted: Turn the Gaze Around, a selection of films that subvert the heterosexual male gaze and eroticize the unexpected. Other programs spotlight Cheryl Dunye’s brilliantly self-reflexive explorations of race and sexuality, Gregg Araki’s vibrant punk provocations, Chantal Akerman’s restless experimentation, and Jonathan Caouette’s ingenious autobiographical documentary Tarnation.
And that’s not all: June also brings a collection of Mike Leigh’s acclaimed dramas, D. A. Pennebaker’s long-unavailable Original Cast Album: “Company,” a twenty-four-film survey of the Czechoslovak New Wave, exclusive streaming premieres of Bertrand Bonello’s eerie Zombi Child and Nadav Lapid’s audacious comedy Synonyms, a collection of Bette Gordon’s bold independent films, and so much more.
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