KUBRICK Film Double at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi

Wednesday 6 May

The Killing: 19:30
Intermission: 21:00
Paths of Glory: 21:15
END: 22:45

IMPORTANT: Tickets purchased on this page are for the film double. If you only wish to see one of Kubrick's films please visit here.

Film 1: THE KILLING
Stanley Kubrick | 1956 | USA | 1h24m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles

With THE KILLING, Stanley Kubrick stopped looking like a promising young director and started looking like a major one. On paper it's a racetrack heist picture that's lean, tough and built around a carefully timed robbery. On screen it becomes something more exacting than that, a crime film structured with the precision of a mechanism and alive to all the weakness, vanity and bad luck that can bring a perfect plan apart.

This was Kubrick’s third feature and the first that announced him clearly as a major American filmmaker. He was still in his twenties. The script was written with Jim Thompson from Lionel White’s novel "Clean Break". Thompson brought a hard, sour understanding of criminal psychology, while Kubrick gave the film its cold visual discipline and its unusual chronology.

The fractured timeline was radical for an American noir of the period. Instead of moving forward in a straight line, the film circles the same event from different angles, tightening the tension by making structure itself part of the suspense. Quentin Tarantino later cited THE KILLING as a major influence on RESERVOIR DOGS, and its formal DNA can be felt much more widely across later crime cinema that treats chronology as something to cut apart and rearrange,a la Christopher Nolan.

THE KILLING contains so much of what would later define Kubrick’s style. The fascination with systems. The exposure of masculine pride. The sense that intelligence and planning can't save you from chaos. Even at this early stage, Kubrick's not interested in reassuring the audience or romanticising the men on screen. The film moves fast, but leaves a long shadow.

Film 2: PATHS OF GLORY
Stanley Kubrick | 1957 | USA | 1h28m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles

PATHS OF GLORY is one of the fiercest anti-war films ever made. Set during the First World War, it begins with a failed French attack ordered by arrogant superiors, then turns toward the military trial of three soldiers chosen to take the blame for that failure. Kubrick strips the story down to something brutal and clear: war as hierarchy, theatre, vanity and organised sacrifice. Kirk Douglas gives the film its moral centre as Colonel Dax, but the real force of PATHS OF GLORY lies in the coldness with which it shows institutions protecting themselves at the expense of the men beneath them.

Humphrey Cobb’s novel gave Kubrick the story, and he tells it with brutal clarity. The tracking shots through the trenches are now part of cinema history for good reason. They do not merely impress. They place the viewer inside a world of mud, claustrophobia and fatal momentum. The contrast with the chateau interiors is just as important. Kubrick sets privilege and slaughter side by side, and the effect is devastating. The film was also controversial on release and faced bans or delayed distribution in several countries because of its portrait of military leadership, which only confirms how directly it hit its target.

PATHS OF GLORY contains much of what would later define Kubrick’s style, but it also stands apart within his body of work for its anger. There is no grandeur here, no redemptive rhetoric, no romance of combat. The film is interested in power at its most cowardly, and in the obscene distance between those who give orders and those who die obeying them. It remains one of the clearest statements cinema has made about the moral bankruptcy of war, and it does so in under ninety minutes, without a wasted scene.

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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