In the original novels by Ian Fleming, James Bond is a heavy smoker, putting away between sixty and seventy cigarettes a day.

Time flows backwards as well as forwards in this intricate new techno-thriller, the first major theatrical release in the COVID-19 era, from the director of Memento and Inception.

Adapted from Olaf Stapledon's early science fiction novel, this stark and striking film from Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson extrapolates us through 2 billion years, into mankind's far future and ultimate fate.

Jen Osborne, Geist contributor, has been shortlisted for a Sony World Photography Award for The Red West.

Since 2016, billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili has been buying up and relocating ancient trees to furnish a private park. This mournful and elegiac documentary illustrates how money, and political influence, can literally remake a world.

I Love Lucy was unique when it first premiered because it was sponsored entirely by Philip Morris cigarettes, which gave them tremendous sway over creative content.

A Vantablack-dark comedy from Poland. A wedding ceremony doesn't go quite as planned, and the wedding reception that follows goes—slowly, but inevitably—off the rails.

If you've ever pondered the question, "wouldn't it be more effective to find the causes of cancer instead of trying to find a cure?" then you should watch the excellent documentary Pink Ribbons, Inc.

A quirky comedy from French actor (Avenue Montaigne) and director (9 Month Stretch) Albert Dupontel. A suicidal IT genius and a blind archivist help a dying woman trying to locate the child she gave up for adoption.

Terence Davies' first feature film in five years is a heartbreaking, and heartfelt, portrait of British poet Siegfried Sassoon.

A bio-pic on Tove Jansson: artist, writer, free spirit, and creator of the beloved Moomins.

An extremely dark film directed by Ali Abbasi and starring Zar Amir Ebrahimi, based on actual events: a serial killer who was active in the years 2000 to 2001 in the holy city of Mashhad, Iran.

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A documentary by Ana Sofia Fonseca, on the life of the beloved Cape Verdean singer, who many knew as the Barefoot Diva.

Ken Smith has lived in isolation for more than 40 years, on the shores of Loch Treig, in the Scottish Highlands.

A feature film about the fight for abortion rights, directed by Phyllis Nagy, dramatizing the inner workings of the Jane Collective, a feminist organization active in the Chicago area between 1969 and 1973.

Free Event on Sunday, October 9! Hosted by the Geist Writer-In-Residence, Luca Cara Seccafien.

Another take on George Simenon's classic French police detective, this film is a slow-paced, melancholic pleasure, directed by Patrice Leconte, with Gérard Depardieu as Jules Maigret.

Seattle's annual arts festival is still a lot of fun.

Free Event on Sunday, November 6! Hosted by the Geist Writer-In-Residence, Luca Cara Seccafien and joined by co-facilitator, Masha Leung.

Corner Office is a gentle black comedy about office culture, with the slightly surreal feel of an extended episode of Black Mirror.

Free Writing Event on Saturday, March 11! Hosted by the Geist Writer-In-Residence, Christine Lai.