DE PALMA: Documentary Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi

FOMO Cinema Presents: The Art of the Documentary

A week of failed productions, obsessive directors and impossible shoots - this week at FOMO is dedicated to the underappreciated art of documentary filmmaking, and to the filmmakers stubborn enough to keep pointing the camera when common sense suggests they should pack it in.

DE PALMA

Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow | 2015 | USA | 1h50m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles

DE PALMA is a rare thing: a director portrait that gets out of the way and lets the director talk, which works especially well when the director is Brian De Palma and he has absolutely no interest in sounding modest.

Sitting in front of the camera, De Palma walks through his career film by film, from early independent experiments to CARRIE, DRESSED TO KILL, BLOW OUT, SCARFACE, THE UNTOUCHABLES, CARLITO’S WAY, MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE and beyond. He talks about Hitchcock, split screens, long takes, voyeurism, violence, studio battles, failed projects, bad reviews, major hits, and the peculiar experience of spending decades being praised, attacked, misunderstood, copied, dismissed, and rediscovered.

What makes the film so enjoyable is its clarity. Baumbach and Paltrow don’t bury De Palma under commentary or force a neat argument around him. The result is part career survey, part confession, part technical lecture, and part reminder that American cinema of the 1970s and 80s was shaped by filmmakers who treated genre as a place for obsession rather than respectability.

Presented as part of FOMO’s Documentary Week, DE PALMA is essential cinema-on-cinema viewing. It’s a documentary about authorship, influence, technique, failure, taste, and the strange afterlife of being called both a genius and a hack, sometimes by the same people. For anyone interested in American cinema, Hitchcock’s influence, New Hollywood, erotic thrillers, crime films, or directors who make absolutely no apology for their fixations, DE PALMA is a gift.

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:
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