Sightlines · a concept

action image small form

action → disclosed situation → new action.

On screen: an act discloses a partly hidden situation.

71 films in the collection register this concept · in the glossary

Across the collection

City Lights1931It Happened One Night1934Modern Times1936The Awful Truth1937Bringing Up Baby1938The Philadelphia Story1940The Maltese Falcon1941The Big Sleep1946Out of the Past1947Pickup on South Street1953Roman Holiday1953A Lesson in Love1954To Catch a Thief195512 Angry Men1957Yojimbo1961Charade1963High and Low1963The Great Escape1963Seven Days in May1964In the Heat of the Night1967Bullitt1968The Party1968Army of Shadows1969Z1969Get Carter1971Shaft1971The French Connection1971Paper Moon1973Sleeper1973The Day of the Jackal1973Chinatown1974All the President's Men1976Marathon Man1976The Driver1978Gloria1980Missing1982Gorky Park1983Angel Heart1987Shallow Grave1987My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown1989Glengarry Glen Ross1992My Cousin Vinny1992The Fugitive1993Fargo1996The Arrival1996Hard Eight1997L.A. Confidential1997The Cider House Rules1999Tigerland2000The Bourne Supremacy2004The Good Shepherd2004The Child2005United 932006Gone Baby Gone2007Green Zone2010Jack Reacher2012American Sniper2014Kill the Messenger2014Spotlight2015The Martian2015Anthropoid2016The Nice Guys2016Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017The Resistance Banker2018Emily the Criminal2022The Batman2022Number 242024Marty Supreme2025Sirāt2025The Mastermind2025Project Hail Mary2026