Recently, when films have appeared on the screens that are difficult to classify as real art, many of us want to watch truly intellectual cinema. What is included in this concept? Generally speaking, these are paintings, the content and meaning of which you need to think for yourself. You will probably understand the director’s idea, or maybe find something of your own.
Most often, the so-called art-house films fall into this category. These works are known to a narrow circle of viewers, and only professional critics can figure out the hidden meanings. Not every art house, however, can be called intelligent. For example, “Green Elephant”, as well as “Lard, or 120 days of sodom” would be more reasonable to call “trash” - a word meaning “garbage” on youth slang. It is unlikely that any deep meaning can be found in the human genitals, excrement and viscera.
Intellectual cinema. List
Such films began to be shot for a long time. A classic of the genre, of course, can be called, for example, Alfred Hitchcock. Psycho, filmed in 1960, is one of the director’s most famous films. This is a story about a young girl who is tired of hiding her relationship with her married lover. Full of despair, she
steals a large sum of money and leaves the city. But in the roadside motel, where she stopped, not everything is calm: the owner suffers from a
split personality. Many believe that this is the best intellectual cinema, which, moreover, is at the origins of the thriller genre.
Hitchcock's other great films are Birds, Window on the Courtyard, and Rebecca.
The famous Italian director Federico Fellini also shot intellectual cinema. Perhaps his most famous painting is “8 and a half”, in which Mastroianni played the main role. This film, shot using the "stream of consciousness" technique, is a story about a director experiencing a complex creative and spiritual crisis.
“Road”, “Sweet Life”, “Nights of Kabiriya” are also interesting films that will make the viewer think carefully about the meaning.
In Russian cinema, too, there are many paintings that can be confidently defined as “intellectual cinema”. The work of Tarkovsky became a real classic. His most famous film is Stalker, a free interpretation of the Strugatsky’s book Picnic on the Sidelines. This is a story about how several people were looking for a certain fulfilling room located in a special place - the Zone. Other works of this director, such as, for example, “The Mirror”, “Nostalgia”, “Andrei Rublev”, are also capable of overturning consciousness.
Another domestic director filming intellectual cinema is Sokurov. His most famous works are “Moloch”, “Alexandra”, “Sun”, “Russian Ark”. The last picture is about our contemporary, who, once in the Hermitage, falls into the past and travels through eras with another “traveler”, but from the 19th century.
Among contemporary films, the work of Cronenberg's “Spider” with Rafe Fiennes can be noted . You will learn the story of Dennis Fleg, the man who spent 20 years in a mental hospital. Returning home after treatment, he, wandering through the back streets of his mind, is trying to remember what caused his madness.
There is still a lot of good intellectual cinema. Such films can make you look at life differently, so you really need to watch them.