HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT: 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.

HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT

Kent Jones | 2015 | France/USA | 1h19m | Presented in the original English and French audio with English subtitles

HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT is a documentary about one of the most important conversations in cinema history, and the book that helped change the way people talk about directors.

In 1962, François Truffaut sat down with Alfred Hitchcock for a week-long series of interviews. At the time, Hitchcock was already one of the most famous filmmakers in the world, but many critics still treated him as a popular entertainer rather than a serious artist. Truffaut saw something else. He understood Hitchcock as a precise, formally brilliant filmmaker whose thrillers were built from control, suspense, visual design, psychology, and a deep understanding of how audiences watch.

The interviews became the book Hitchcock/Truffaut, a key text for generations of filmmakers, critics, and film obsessives. Kent Jones’ documentary revisits that encounter through archival recordings, film clips, and reflections from directors including Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater and others. The result is less a standard biography than a study of influence: how one filmmaker’s attention helped another filmmaker’s work be seen differently.

Presented as part of FOMO’s Documentary Week, HITCHCOCK/TRUFFAUT is a documentary about filmmaking itself: how directors think, how images are built, how suspense works, and how criticism can change the reputation of a filmmaker. For anyone with even a passing interest in Hitchcock, Truffaut, or the French New Wave that Truffaut helped define and popularise, this is required viewing.

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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