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.

384 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

J'Accuse1919The Crowd1928Duck Soup1933High Sierra1941Sullivan's Travels1941The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943A Canterbury Tale1944Dead of Night1945Detour1945I Know Where I'm Going!1945It's a Wonderful Life1946Paisan1946Shoeshine1946Odd Man Out1947Hamlet1948Criss Cross1949La Terra Trema1949They Live by Night1949Rashomon1950The Breaking Point1950The Gunfighter1950Wagon Master1950The River1951Europa '511952I Vitelloni1953Monsieur Hulot's Holiday1953Summer with Monika1953The Naked Spur1953The Wages of Fear1953The War of the Worlds1953Journey to Italy1954Journey to Italy1954La Strada1954It's Always Fair Weather1955Kiss Me Deadly1955Pather Panchali1955Nights of Cabiria1957Pyaasa1957Rio, Northern Zone1957The Incredible Shrinking Man1957The Seventh Seal1957Elevator to the Gallows1958Mon Oncle1958Look Back in Anger1959Pickpocket1959The 400 Blows1959The Human Condition I: No Greater Love1959Breathless1960Cruel Story of Youth1960La Dolce Vita1960Shadows1960Shoot the Piano Player1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs1960A Taste of Honey1961Lola1961One-Eyed Jacks1961A Kind of Loving1962Carnival of Souls1962Knife in the Water1962L'Eclisse1962Lawrence of Arabia1962The Exterminating Angel1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962To Kill a Mockingbird1962Contempt1963Shock Corridor1963The Birds1963The Silence1963This Sporting Life1963Band of Outsiders1964Blood and Black Lace1964Charulata1964Hamlet1964Pale Flower1964The Night of the Iguana1964Woman in the Dunes1964Pierrot le Fou1965São Paulo, Incorporated1965The Flight of the Phoenix1965The Pawnbroker1965A Man and a Woman1966Blow-Up1966Cul-de-sac1966Masculin Féminin1966The Brick and the Mirror1966PlayTime1967Point Blank1967The Red and the White1967Titicut Follies1967Weekend1967Memories of Underdevelopment1968Petulia1968Stolen Kisses1968Targets1968The Swimmer1968Theorem1968Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969Easy Rider1969Invasion1969Medium Cool1969Catch-221970Five Easy Pieces1970Husbands1970Kes1970The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970Wanda1970Bleak Moments1971McCabe & Mrs. Miller1971THX 11381971The Beguiled1971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Wake in Fright1971Walkabout1971Soleil O1973The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973The Long Goodbye1973The Mother and the Whore1973Touki Bouki1973A Woman Under the Influence1974Ali: Fear Eats the Soul1974Alice in the Cities1974Badlands1974Chinatown1974Scenes from a Marriage1974The Conversation1974The Phantom of Liberty1974Dog Day Afternoon1975Nashville1975Night Moves1975Shampoo1975The Passenger1975Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie1976The Man Who Fell to Earth1976Jabberwocky1977Opening Night1977The American Friend1977The Last Wave1977Days of Heaven1978Killer of Sheep1978Quadrophenia1979The Man Who Stole the Sun1979The Onion Field1979From the Life of the Marionettes1980Kagemusha1980Gallipoli1981Kisapmata1981Modern Romance1981Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982L'Argent1983Local Hero1983Meantime1983Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence1983Rumble Fish1983Stranger Than Paradise1983Testament1983The Big Chill1983Love Streams1984Memories of Prison1984Paris, Texas1984Stranger Than Paradise1984The Element of Crime1984The Killing Fields1984After Hours1985Come and See1985Lost in America1985Betty Blue1986Down by Law1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Sid and Nancy1986The Green Ray1986Babette's Feast1987Where Is The Friend's House?1987Bull Durham1988Damnation1988Grave of the Fireflies1988My Neighbor Totoro1988The Seventh Continent1989Violent Cop1989American Dream1990Days of Being Wild1990Metropolitan1990Slacker1990A Brighter Summer Day1991Barton Fink1991Defending Your Life1991My Own Private Idaho1991Night on Earth1991Raise the Red Lantern1991Porco Rosso1992The Crying Game1992Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me1992Dazed and Confused1993Faraway, So Close!1993Menace II Society1993Moving1993Naked1993Sonatine1993Before the Rain1994Chungking Express1994Hoop Dreams1994Rebels of the Neon God1994Three Colors: White1994Before Sunrise1995Ghost in the Shell1995Kicking and Screaming1995Safe1995Se7en1995Bottle Rocket1996Lone Star1996Pusher1996Chasing Amy1997Cure1997Fireworks1997Funny Games1997Insomnia1997The End of Violence1997The Ice Storm1997Buffalo '661998Bullet Ballet1998Last Night1998The Big Lebowski1998The Last Days of Disco1998The Thin Red Line1998Humanité1999Ratcatcher1999Ride with the Devil1999Rosetta1999101 Reykjavik2000Code Unknown2000Final Destination2000Love & Basketball2000Memento2000Songs from the Second Floor2000You Can Count on Me2000Batang West Side2001Ghost World2001La Ciénaga2001No Man's Land2001Pulse2001Read My Lips2001Gerry2002Irreversible2002Mango Yellow2002The Pianist2002Bright Future2003Gozu2003Laurel Canyon2003Lost in Translation2003Memories of Murder2003Noi the Albino2003The Station Agent2003Million Dollar Baby2004Caché2005D.E.B.S.2005Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005Jarhead2005Me and You and Everyone We Know2005Saw II2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005Control2007Gone Baby Gone2007No Country for Old Men2007The Darjeeling Limited2007Zodiac2007Che: Part Two2008Funny Games2008Gomorrah2008The Headless Woman2008Tokyo Sonata2008Wendy and Lucy2008Polytechnique2009The Lovely Bones2009Biutiful2010Police, Adjective2010Prince of Broadway2010The American2010Tiny Furniture2010Meek's Cutoff2011Melancholia2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Oslo, August 31st2011Real Steel2011The Artist2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011The Kid with a Bike2011Amour2012Beyond the Hills2012Sinister2012Before Midnight2013Enemy2013Frances Ha2013Inside Llewyn Davis2013Iron Man 32013Nebraska2013Only God Forgives2013The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013A Most Wanted Man2014Creep2014Divergent2014Force Majeure2014Inherent Vice2014Leviathan2014The Amazing Spider-Man 22014The Fault in Our Stars2014Two Days, One Night2014Under the Skin2014Wild Tales2014X-Men: Days of Future Past2014Anomalisa2015Dheepan2015Sicario2015The Assassin2015Doctor Strange2016Silence2016Visaranai2016Before I Fall2017Loveless2017Okja2017The Square2017You Were Never Really Here2017Zama2017A Star Is Born2018Burning2018First Reformed2018Hereditary2018Never Look Away2018The Rider2018Wildlife2018Beanpole2019All the Bright Places2020Another Round2020Dear Comrades!2020Palm Springs2020Promising Young Woman2020Sound of Metal2020The Hand of God2021The Worst Person in the World2021All Quiet on the Western Front2022EO2022Smile2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022White Noise2022The Iron Claw202318x2 Beyond Youthful Days2024A Real Pain2024Civil War2024Drawing Closer2024Heretic2024Misericordia2024Queer2024Sing Sing2024Smile 22024Blue Moon2025How to Train Your Dragon2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025It Was Just an Accident2025Kontinental '252025Materialists2025Sirāt2025Sorry, Baby2025The Long Walk2025The Love That Remains2025The Mastermind2025Thunderbolts*2025Two Prosecutors2025Urchin2025Warfare2025Young Mothers2025Backrooms2026Girls Like Girls2026Spider-Man: Brand New Day2026The Death of Robin Hood2026The Drama2026The Furious2026