TRAINSPOTTING: British Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Thursday 18. June at 19:00 - 20:31
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.
TRAINSPOTTING
Danny Boyle | 1996 | United Kingdom | 1h33m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
I suspect most people walking into TRAINSPOTTING for the first time think they're about to watch a film about heroin addiction. I mean to say, they're not wrong, but they're also certainly not right either.
What makes TRAINSPOTTING endure isn't the drugs. It's the attitude. The feeling that every institution around you has failed and that nobody really expects anything from you anyway. Jobs are pointless. Politics is pointless. The future feels pointless. Heroin just happens to be one escape.
The film follows Renton and his friends through mid-1990s Edinburgh as they bounce between addiction, recovery, crime, friendship, betrayal, and self-destruction. None of them are heroic. In fact most of them are barely functional. Yet they're also some of the most memorable characters British cinema has ever produced.
The famous scenes have entered cinema history. The opening sprint through Edinburgh. The "Choose Life" monologue. The worst toilet in Scotland. Yet what keeps the film relevant isn't its iconography. It's the way it captures a generation that feels disconnected from traditional ideas about work, success, family, and national identity.
I was a teenager when TRAINSPOTTING became a cultural phenomenon and I still remember how completely it took over. The posters were everywhere. The soundtrack was everywhere. Everybody knew the "Choose Life" speech, including plenty of people who had never actually seen the film. For a while it felt less like a movie and more like a cultural event.
I've paired TRAINSPOTTING with SEXY BEAST this Thursday because both films take familiar British genres and jolt them back to life. Boyle does it with the social-realist drama. Glazer does it with the gangster film. The result is two films that still feel startlingly fresh decades later.
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
