Sightlines · a concept

consciousness of cliches

the world experienced as ready-made images.

On screen: characters/films aware they move among clichés.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DNouvelle Vague2025

Across the collection

Sullivan's Travels1941It's Always Fair Weather1955Kiss Me Deadly1955Bob le Flambeur1956Breathless1960Shoot the Piano Player1960It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963Band of Outsiders1964Pierrot le Fou1965The Brick and the Mirror1966The Good, the Bad and the Ugly1966Tokyo Drifter1966Bonnie and Clyde1967Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970Five Easy Pieces1970M*A*S*H1970Sisters1973Soleil O1973The Long Goodbye1973The Mother and the Whore1973Dog Day Afternoon1975Shampoo1975Network1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie1976High Anxiety1977The American Friend1977Life of Brian1979Manhattan1979The Man Who Stole the Sun1979Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982The Big Chill1983Lost in America1985Tampopo1985Full Metal Jacket1987Withnail & I1987Metropolitan1990Unforgiven1992Sankofa1993Kicking and Screaming1995La Haine1995The Big Lebowski1998The Last Days of Disco1998The Truman Show1998Dogma1999Almost Famous2000Tigerland2000Ghost World200124 Hour Party People2002Bowling for Columbine2002Igby Goes Down2002Kill Bill: Vol. 12003Path to War2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003A History of Violence2005D.E.B.S.2005Jarhead2005Little Miss Sunshine2006Ocean's Thirteen2007The Darjeeling Limited2007Burn After Reading2008Gomorrah2008(500) Days of Summer2009Scream 42011The Cabin in the Woods2012The Great Beauty2013A Most Violent Year2014Guardians of the Galaxy2014The Fault in Our Stars2014Jurassic World2015Kingsman: The Secret Service2015Deadpool2016The Nice Guys2016Kingsman: The Golden Circle2017Logan2017Okja2017The Lego Batman Movie2017The Square2017Don't Look Up2021Fear Street: 19942021Bullet Train2022Enola Holmes 22022Thor: Love and Thunder2022White Noise2022Anyone but You2023No Hard Feelings2023Scream VI2023Civil War2024Deadpool & Wolverine2024Lisa Frankenstein2024Eddington2025Kontinental '252025One Battle After Another2025The Housemaid2025The Mastermind2025The Drama2026