JUBILEE: British Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Wednesday 17. June at 18:30 - 20:16
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
June 16-21 FOMO is taking a tour through some of the most distinctive films to emerge from the United Kingdom over the last fifty years. Punk manifestos. Social realism. Gangster films. Cult classics. Coming-of-age stories. Music culture. Working-class Britain. Films that helped define entire generations, alongside newer works that show where British cinema is heading today.
JUBILEE
Derek Jarman | 1978 | United Kingdom | 1h46m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
JUBILEE is what happens when punk stops being a music genre and becomes a vision of the future.
Made at the height of Britain's punk explosion, the film imagines Queen Elizabeth I transported forward in time to a decaying England filled with violence, media spectacle, political collapse, and competing subcultures. It's less interested in telling a conventional story than in capturing a mood. Every frame feels like it was made by people who believed the country was broken and weren't particularly interested in pretending otherwise.
I've included JUBILEE because no other film in this program feels quite as radical. Derek Jarman wasn't trying to entertain audiences in the conventional sense. He was creating a provocation. A film that challenged ideas about Britain, monarchy, culture, gender, sexuality, and national identity all at once.
Watching it today is fascinating because so many of its anxieties feel surprisingly contemporary. Celebrity culture. Political dysfunction. Media saturation. A sense that public life has become performance. I get the impression Jarman was looking at Britain in 1978 and wondering whether collapse had already happened and just nobody had noticed yet.
The cast includes several figures connected to the punk movement itself, including Jordan and Adam Ant, giving the film a direct connection to the culture it emerged from. Unlike later films that look back nostalgically on punk, JUBILEE feels like it was made from inside the movement while everything was still messy and unfolding.
I have decided to pair JUBILEE with NAKED because both films present deeply uncomfortable visions of Britain separated by fifteen years. Jarman's Britain is anarchic and collapsing. Mike Leigh's Britain is exhausted and cynical. and arguably collapsed. Together they form one of the most confrontational double bills of the entire week.
This isn't the easiest film in the program. It's angry and deliberately abrasive but that's exactly why I wanted to show it.
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
