Sightlines · a concept

crystal decomposition

a crystalline world decaying.

On screen: an aristocratic/ordered world rotting from within.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DThe Leopard1963DSenso1954

Across the collection

L'Âge d'or1930Grand Illusion1937The Rules of the Game1939Rebecca1940The Magnificent Ambersons1942The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943Mildred Pierce1945Gilda1946Great Expectations1946The Lady from Shanghai1947Macbeth1948Kind Hearts and Coronets1949The Queen of Spades1949All About Eve1950Sunset Boulevard1950The Strange Ones1950Othello1951The Earrings of Madame de...1953Ugetsu1953Smiles of a Summer Night1955Paths of Glory1957Sweet Smell of Success1957Wild Strawberries1957Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958Touch of Evil1958Imitation of Life1959Suddenly, Last Summer1959La Dolce Vita1960Psycho1960Rocco and His Brothers1960Harakiri1962Lolita1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Contempt1963The Servant1963Becket1964Chimes at Midnight1965Darling1965Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Hour of the Wolf1968Once Upon a Time in the West1968Targets1968The Swimmer1968Theorem1968if....1968L'Amour fou1969Death in Venice1971The Beguiled1971The Conformist1971The Go-Between1971The Last Picture Show1971The Touch1971Cries and Whispers1972Roma1972Sleuth1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972The Godfather1972Don't Look Now1973Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid1973Céline and Julie Go Boating1974The Godfather Part II1974Barry Lyndon1975India Song1975Shampoo1975The Man Who Would Be King1975Grey Gardens1976Heart of Glass1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976The Last Waltz1978Being There1979Nosferatu the Vampyre1979The Marriage of Maria Braun1979American Gigolo1980From the Life of the Marionettes1980Kagemusha1980Ordinary People1980The Shining1980Mephisto1981Blade Runner1982The Draughtsman's Contract1982A Zed & Two Noughts1985Ran1985Rendez-vous1985Repentance1987RoboCop1987The Belly of an Architect1987The Dead1987The Last Emperor1987Dangerous Liaisons1988Dead Ringers1988The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989The Seventh Continent1989Metropolitan1990Raise the Red Lantern1991Bram Stoker's Dracula1992Indochine1992Farewell My Concubine1993The Age of Innocence1993The Remains of the Day1993Eat Drink Man Woman1994Satantango1994The Madness of King George1994Casino1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995La Cérémonie1995Nixon1995Hamlet1996Irma Vep1996The Funeral1996The Portrait of a Lady1996Donnie Brasco1997Gattaca1997L.A. Confidential1997The Ice Storm1997Dark City1998Flowers of Shanghai1998High Art1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon1998The Celebration1998The Proposition1998American Beauty1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999The Talented Mr. Ripley1999Toy Story 21999Gosford Park2001Hannibal2001La Ciénaga2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001Y Tu Mamá También200128 Days Later2002Far from Heaven2002Igby Goes Down2002Ripley's Game2002Road to Perdition2002Russian Ark2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002Dogville2003Infernal Affairs II2003The Cooler2003Birth2004Downfall2004The Aviator2004The Hidden Blade2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004Lady Vengeance2005Memoirs of a Geisha2005Cars2006Inside Man2006Marie Antoinette2006Pan's Labyrinth2006The Queen2006American Gangster2007Michael Clayton2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007This Is England2007Mesrine: Public Enemy #12008Still Walking2008Summer Hours2008A Prophet2009Dogtooth2009The White Ribbon200913 Assassins2010Black Swan2010House of Pleasures2011J. Edgar2011The Artist2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011The Iron Lady2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011Killing Them Softly2012Skyfall2012The Act of Killing2012New World2013Snowpiercer2013Stoker2013The Grandmaster2013The Great Beauty2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014The Grand Budapest Hotel2014When Marnie Was There201445 Years2015The Handmaiden2016Alien: Covenant2017Beauty and the Beast2017Loveless2017Murder on the Orient Express2017Phantom Thread2017Zama2017Shadow2018The Favourite2018Ad Astra2019Us2019Dear Comrades!2020The Man Standing Next2020Last Night in Soho2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021The Last Duel2021The Power of the Dog2021Babylon2022The Batman2022The Menu2022TÁR2022X202212.12: The Day2023Killers of the Flower Moon2023Napoleon2023Priscilla2023Saltburn2023The Boy and the Heron2023The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023The Zone of Interest2023Conclave2024Small Things Like These2024The Count of Monte Cristo2024The Seed of the Sacred Fig2024The Substance2024After the Hunt2025Blue Moon2025Eddington2025Sentimental Value2025The Housemaid2025Two Prosecutors2025"Wuthering Heights"2026The Devil Wears Prada 22026The Drama2026