THE KILLING Kubrick screening at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi

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.

NOTE: This film is being presented as part of a discounted Kubrick Film Double alongside PATHS OF GLORY. For more information please visit this link.

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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