Sightlines · a concept

crisis of the action image

the sensory-motor schema breaks; the agent becomes a seer.

On screen: characters who can no longer react adequately to what they perceive.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DBicycle Thieves1948DGermany, Year Zero1948DL'Avventura1960DLa Notte1961DRome, Open City1945DStromboli1950DBranded to Kill1967DUmberto D.1952

Across the collection

Paisan1946Shoeshine1946Hamlet1948La Terra Trema1949Rashomon1950Europa '511952I Vitelloni1953The Wages of Fear1953Journey to Italy1954Journey to Italy1954La Strada1954Pather Panchali1955Nights of Cabiria1957The Seventh Seal1957Elevator to the Gallows1958Look Back in Anger1959Pickpocket1959The 400 Blows1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love1959Breathless1960La Dolce Vita1960Shadows1960Shoot the Piano Player1960A Taste of Honey1961A Kind of Loving1962Knife in the Water1962L'Eclisse1962Lawrence of Arabia1962The Exterminating Angel1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962To Kill a Mockingbird1962Contempt1963Shock Corridor1963The Birds1963The Silence1963This Sporting Life1963Band of Outsiders1964Pale Flower1964The Night of the Iguana1964Woman in the Dunes1964Pierrot le Fou1965The Pawnbroker1965Blow-Up1966Masculin Féminin1966PlayTime1967Point Blank1967Weekend1967Petulia1968Theorem1968Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969Easy Rider1969Medium Cool1969Catch-221970Five Easy Pieces1970Husbands1970Kes1970Wanda1970Bleak Moments1971McCabe & Mrs. Miller1971THX 11381971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Walkabout1971The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973The Long Goodbye1973A Woman Under the Influence1974Alice in the Cities1974Badlands1974Chinatown1974Scenes from a Marriage1974The Conversation1974Dog Day Afternoon1975Nashville1975Night Moves1975The Passenger1975Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie1976The Man Who Fell to Earth1976Opening Night1977The American Friend1977The Last Wave1977Days of Heaven1978The Onion Field1979From the Life of the Marionettes1980Kagemusha1980Gallipoli1981L'Argent1983Meantime1983Rumble Fish1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Paris, Texas1984Stranger Than Paradise1984The Killing Fields1984Come and See1985Down by Law1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Babette's Feast1987Damnation1988The Seventh Continent1989Violent Cop1989Days of Being Wild1990Slacker1990Barton Fink1991My Own Private Idaho1991Raise the Red Lantern1991Dazed and Confused1993Faraway, So Close!1993Naked1993Sonatine1993Chungking Express1994Ghost in the Shell1995Safe1995Se7en1995Pusher1996Cure1997Fireworks1997Funny Games1997The End of Violence1997The Ice Storm1997Buffalo '661998The Big Lebowski1998The Thin Red Line1998Humanité1999Ratcatcher1999Rosetta1999101 Reykjavik2000Code Unknown2000Memento2000Songs from the Second Floor2000No Man's Land2001Pulse2001Gerry2002Irreversible2002Mango Yellow2002The Pianist2002Bright Future2003Gozu2003Laurel Canyon2003Lost in Translation2003Memories of Murder2003Noi the Albino2003The Station Agent2003Million Dollar Baby2004Caché2005Jarhead2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005Gone Baby Gone2007No Country for Old Men2007Zodiac2007Funny Games2008Gomorrah2008Tokyo Sonata2008Wendy and Lucy2008Police, Adjective2010The American2010Meek's Cutoff2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Oslo, August 31st2011Amour2012Inside Llewyn Davis2013Only God Forgives2013A Most Wanted Man2014Force Majeure2014Inherent Vice2014Under the Skin2014Sicario2015The Assassin2015Loveless2017The Square2017You Were Never Really Here2017Burning2018First Reformed2018Hereditary2018Beanpole2019Dear Comrades!2020All Quiet on the Western Front2022EO2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022Civil War2024Misericordia2024Blue Moon2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025It Was Just an Accident2025Kontinental '252025Sirāt2025Sorry, Baby2025The Love That Remains2025The Mastermind2025Two Prosecutors2025Urchin2025Warfare2025Young Mothers2025