2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi

Stanley Kubrick | 1968 | UK/USA | 2h29m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles

2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY changed the scale of what science fiction could do on screen. Kubrick took a genre still often associated with pulp adventure and turned it into something vast, cold, exact and genuinely transcendent. The film moves from prehistory to deep space, from the dawn of tool use to a mission to Jupiter, with the monolith and HAL 9000 linking those movements into a larger meditation on intelligence, technology and evolution. It isn’t built around conventional explanation, and that’s part of its force. Kubrick gives the viewer scale, silence and duration, then trusts the images to carry the weight.

The achievement is inseparable from the seriousness of its making. Kubrick developed the film with Arthur C. Clarke, drawing on Clarke’s story “The Sentinel” and building a form of science fiction that treated space travel, artificial intelligence and cosmic possibility with unusual intellectual weight. The effects were revolutionary. The production design was obsessive. The use of classical music gave the film a grandeur that still feels singular. HAL 9000 became one of the defining figures in the history of screen artificial intelligence, and the film’s visual language shaped generations of directors who followed. So much of it now feels foundational because Kubrick put it there first.

2001 still feels radical because it refuses to shrink mystery down to plot. It leaves room for awe, dread and philosophical uncertainty. You can watch it as spectacle, as metaphysical inquiry, as a work about human insignificance, or as a confrontation with the unknowable. But most importantly, you have to watch it on the big screen.

FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00,.serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!

LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.

HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to the first floor. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us:
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