Sightlines · a concept

attitudes & postures

the body, no longer an instrument of action, makes time appear (tiredness, waiting, ceremony).

On screen: the everyday or ceremonial body carrying duration.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLove Streams1984

Across the collection

Nanook of the North1922Frankenstein1931Toni1935The Best Years of Our Lives1946Late Spring1949Diary of a Country Priest1951Europa '511952Umberto D.1952Tokyo Story1953It's Always Fair Weather1955Marty1955Pather Panchali1955Rebel Without a Cause1955A Man Escaped1956A Midsummer's Night Dream1959Pickpocket1959Breathless1960Eyes Without a Face1960Primary1960Saturday Night and Sunday Morning1960Shadows1960The Virgin Spring1960A Taste of Honey1961One-Eyed Jacks1961Yojimbo1961An Autumn Afternoon1962Harakiri1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962The Pink Panther1963A Hard Day's Night1964Band of Outsiders1964Dog Star Man: Part IV1964Gertrud1964Hamlet1964The Night of the Iguana1964Woman in the Dunes1964Andrei Rublev1966Au Hasard Balthazar1966Cul-de-sac1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Le Samouraï1967The Red and the White1967Titicut Follies1967Bullitt1968Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Faces1968The Party1968Army of Shadows1969Invasion1969L'Amour fou1969Medea1969Midnight Cowboy1969Satyricon1969The Color of Pomegranates1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969Husbands1970Kes1970Le Cercle Rouge1970Wanda1970Carnal Knowledge1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971Murmur of the Heart1971The Decameron1971Cries and Whispers1972The Act of Seeing with One's Own Eyes1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972Mean Streets1973Sambizanga1973The Mother and the Whore1973A Woman Under the Influence1974Ali: Fear Eats the Soul1974Lenny1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Barry Lyndon1975The Travelling Players1975Female Trouble1976Grey Gardens1976Heart of Glass1976In the Realm of the Senses1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie1976Opening Night1977Stroszek1977The Ascent1977Killer of Sheep1978The 36th Chamber of Shaolin1978The Last Waltz1978The Tree of Wooden Clogs1978Ballad of Tara1979Kramer vs. Kramer1979Scum1979The Black Stallion1979The Man Who Stole the Sun1979The Marriage of Maria Braun1979Woyzeck1979Gloria1980Heaven's Gate1980Das Boot1981Modern Romance1981Possession1981Thief1981Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982Gandhi1982Educating Rita1983L'Argent1983Nostalgia1983Silkwood1983Sugar Cane Alley1983Videodrome1983Nineteen Eighty-Four1984Under the Volcano1984My Life as a Dog1985Police Story1985Ran1985The Breakfast Club1985Vagabond1985Betty Blue1986Platoon1986Sid and Nancy1986Bull Durham1988Chocolat1988Distant Voices, Still Lives1988Grave of the Fireflies1988My Neighbor Totoro1988Rain Man1988The Last Temptation of Christ1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser1988Born on the Fourth of July1989My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown1989House Party1990Daughters of the Dust1991La Belle Noiseuse1991Life Is Sweet1991Only Yesterday1991Paris Is Burning1991Like Water for Chocolate1992Orlando1992Police Story 3: Super Cop1992Dazed and Confused1993Farewell My Concubine1993Moving1993Sonatine1993The Piano1993The Remains of the Day1993Rebels of the Neon God1994The Shawshank Redemption1994Before Sunrise1995Safe1995Sense and Sensibility1995The Blade1995Breaking the Waves1996Crash1996Kolya1996La Promesse1996Secrets & Lies1996Shine1996Sling Blade1996The Portrait of a Lady1996Absolute Power1997Chasing Amy1997Donnie Brasco1997Good Will Hunting1997Happy Together1997Liar Liar1997Little Dieter Needs to Fly1997Nil by Mouth1997The Eel1997The Full Monty1997Buffalo '661998Flowers of Shanghai1998High Art1998Last Night1998Meet Joe Black1998The Idiots1998Belfast, Maine1999Boys Don't Cry1999Buena Vista Social Club1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Humanité1999Julien Donkey-Boy1999Kikujiro1999Mifune1999Ride with the Devil1999Rosetta1999Topsy-Turvy1999American Psycho2000Beau Travail2000Billy Elliot2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon2000Love & Basketball2000Songs from the Second Floor2000The Gleaners and I2000You Can Count on Me2000Batang West Side2001Elling2001In the Bedroom2001La Ciénaga2001The Piano Teacher2001Werckmeister Harmonies2001Gerry2002Mango Yellow2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Talk to Her2002The Bourne Identity2002The Pianist2002Bright Future2003Carandiru2003Elephant2003Laurel Canyon2003Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World2003PTU2003Path to War2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Station Agent2003Touching the Void2003Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Maria Full of Grace2004Napoleon Dynamite2004The Hidden Blade2004Vera Drake2004Me and You and Everyone We Know2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005The Child2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The Wayward Cloud2005Children of Men2006Destiny2006Little Miss Sunshine2006Marie Antoinette20064 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2007Control2007Silent Light2007Che: Part Two2008Hunger2008Martyrs2008Summer Hours2008The Wrestler2008Fish Tank2009Thirst2009Biutiful2010Prince of Broadway2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Drive2011From Up on Poppy Hill2011Oslo, August 31st2011Pina2011Shame2011The Kid with a Bike2011The Turin Horse2011Warrior2011Amour2012The Master2012The Raid2012Wolf Children2012Before Midnight2013Frances Ha2013Lone Survivor2013Nebraska2013A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014American Sniper2014As Above, So Below2014Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Boyhood2014Force Majeure2014From What Is Before2014John Wick2014Phoenix2014The Way He Looks2014Two Days, One Night2014Under the Skin2014Creed2015Dheepan2015The Assassin2015The Revenant2015After the Storm2016Anthropoid2016Certain Women2016Hacksaw Ridge2016Moonlight2016The Nice Guys2016Toni Erdmann2016Atomic Blonde2017Baby Driver2017Get Out2017Good Time2017Logan2017Mudbound2017Okja2017Raw2017The Shape of Water2017Wind River2017A Star Is Born2018At Eternity's Gate2018Climax2018First Man2018The Rider2018Beanpole2019Five Feet Apart2019La Flor2019The Irishman2019Sound of Metal2020Boiling Point2021Escape from Mogadishu2021Licorice Pizza2021Memoria2021Nobody2021Petrov's Flu2021Titane2021All Quiet on the Western Front2022Avatar: The Way of Water2022Elvis2022Kantara2022Nope2022Pearl2022Triangle of Sadness2022Five Nights at Freddy's2023Perfect Days2023Poor Things2023Priscilla2023Society of the Snow2023The Iron Claw2023Anora2024Challengers2024Flow2024Lisa Frankenstein2024Rebel Ridge2024Sing Sing2024Small Things Like These2024The Fall Guy2024We Live in Time2024Wicked202428 Years Later2025Afternoons of Solitude2025Cactus Pears2025Die My Love2025Hamnet2025How to Train Your Dragon2025Magellan2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Pillion2025Sorry, Baby2025Sound of Falling2025The Conjuring: Last Rites2025The Little Sister2025The Long Walk2025The Love That Remains2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Smashing Machine2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025Train Dreams2025Warfare2025Young Mothers2025Evil Dead Burn2026Michael2026Remarkably Bright Creatures2026Silent Friend2026The Drama2026