DJANGO: Desert Visions Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Thursday 25. June at 19:00 - 20:30
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
June 23-28 FOMO presents Desert Visions, a journey through some of cinema's most unforgettable deserts. From Australian outback nightmares and American road movies to spaghetti westerns, Soviet science fiction, spiritual quests, and stories of people searching for meaning at the edge of civilisation. These are films about vast landscapes, strange encounters, reinvention, survival, and what happens when the familiar world falls away.
EL TOPO
Sergio Corbucci | 1966 | Italy / Spain | Italian with English subtitles | 1h31m
If Sergio Leone reinvented the western, Sergio Corbucci dragged it through the mud.
DJANGO opens with one of the great introductions in cinema history. A lone figure appears on the horizon pulling a coffin behind him across a barren landscape. Before long he arrives in a town caught between rival factions, corruption, violence, and greed. Things deteriorate rapidly from there. Our gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.
Watching it now, it's remarkable how modern it still feels. The heroes are damaged. The villains are grotesque. Nobody is coming to save anyone. The world is dirty, cynical, and held together by little more than force.
It's also one of the most influential films ever made. Quentin Tarantino didn't just borrow the title for DJANGO UNCHAINED. The DNA of Corbucci's film can be found across decades of westerns, action films, crime cinema, and exploitation movies.
I've paired DJANGO with EL TOPO because they sit on opposite sides of the same frontier. One takes the western apart and rebuilds it from scratch. The other takes the pieces and turns them into a dream, a myth, and a spiritual quest.
Nearly sixty years later, that image of a man dragging a coffin through the desert remains impossible to forget.
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 Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
