Intellectual cinema is not reduced in the field of philosophical or to the avant -garde proposals of difficult understanding. In fact, The most popular and abundant intellectual cinema materializes in generic models that stimulate the intellect of its protagonists and the public through complex arguments such as those that characterize "detective cinema" and "judgment cinema". At the end of the chapter, A detective has the same goal as a philosopher: find the truth.
Like this, this second cinema cycle of 2025 At the Valencia Museum of Fine Arts proposes a selection of films that make us think because its protagonists (Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple, SAM SPADE THE TORN TAX) They intend to clarify a mystery, the ungaming unit, so that researchers and investigators are involved in the game board, and between the two groups the audience, that activates its gray cells and plays to guess the identity of the criminal before the movie is completed.
The sessions will be developed between April and June 2025 According to the following calendar:
tuesday 8 April, 17:00 h.
The Maltese Falcon (1941), de John Huston
Tuesday 29 April, 17:00 h.
Ten Negritos (1945), of René Clair
tuesday 6 May, 17:00 h.
The Paradine case (1947), d’Alfred Hitchcock
tuesday 13 May, 17:00 h.
12 men without mercy (1957), De Sidney Lumet
tuesday 20 May, 17:00 h.
Witness for charge (1957), The Billy Wilder
tuesday 27 May, 17:00 h.
The Baskerville dog (1959), de Terence Fisher
tuesday 3 June, 17:00 h.
The train of 4:50 (1961), de George Pollock
tuesday 10 June, 17:00 h.
Anatomy of a fall (2023), by Justine Triet
All sessions will take place in the Auditorium of the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia, with presentation, comments and debate by the professors. Teresa Sorolla (Jaume I University of Castelló) i Carlos Cuéllar (University of Valencia).
