Sightlines · a concept

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actual & virtual become indiscernible; the direct image of time.

On screen: present and memory/dream/reflection that can't be told apart; mirrors.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLast Year at Marienbad1961D8½1963DCitizen Kane1941DLola Montès1955DThe Leopard1963DLe Plaisir1952DSenso1954

Across the collection

The Kid1921The Phantom Carriage1921The Circus1928Dishonored1931Vampyr1932Duck Soup1933L'Atalante1934Swing Time1936The Magnificent Ambersons1942To Be or Not to Be1942The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943Laura1944Brief Encounter1945Children of Paradise1945Dead of Night1945A Matter of Life and Death1946Beauty and the Beast1946Great Expectations1946The Lady from Shanghai1947Letter from an Unknown Woman1948The Red Shoes1948All About Eve1950La Ronde1950Orpheus1950Sunset Boulevard1950The Strange Ones1950Singin' in the Rain1952The Earrings of Madame de...1953Ugetsu1953Wild Strawberries1957Black Orpheus1959Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Imitation of Life1959Peeping Tom1960Lola1961Carnival of Souls1962Ivan's Childhood1962Lawrence of Arabia1962Lolita1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Contempt1963High and Low1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963Take It All1963The Servant1963Hamlet1964Juliet of the Spirits1965Kwaidan1965A Man and a Woman1966Persona1966War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Point Blank1967Hour of the Wolf1968Petulia1968Stolen Kisses1968Targets1968L'Amour fou1969Gimme Shelter1970Performance1970Valerie and Her Week of Wonders1970Cries and Whispers1972Solaris1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972Amarcord1973Don't Look Now1973Sisters1973The Spirit of the Beehive1973Céline and Julie Go Boating1974Lenny1974The Godfather Part II1974India Song1975Mirror1975The Passenger1975Grey Gardens1976The Man Who Fell to Earth1976The Tenant1976Eraserhead1977Opening Night1977The Last Wave1977Autumn Sonata1978The Last Waltz1978The Shout1978All That Jazz1979American Gigolo1980Dressed to Kill1980Mephisto1981Possession1981The French Lieutenant's Woman1981Blade Runner1982Fanny and Alexander1982Tootsie1982Nostalgia1983Sans Soleil1983Testament1983Videodrome1983Amadeus1984Choose Me1984City of Pirates1984Once Upon a Time in America1984Paris, Texas1984Brazil1985My Beautiful Laundrette1985Rendez-vous1985Caravaggio1986Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling1986Angel Heart1987Broadcast News1987Repentance1987The Last Emperor1987Cinema Paradiso1988Dead Ringers1988Grave of the Fireflies1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988Santa Sangre1989The Abyss1989sex, lies, and videotape1989Days of Being Wild1990Jacob's Ladder1990Total Recall1990Wild at Heart1990Barton Fink1991Bugsy1991My Own Private Idaho1991Naked Lunch1991The Double Life of Véronique1991Basic Instinct1992Bram Stoker's Dracula1992The Crying Game1992Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Exotica1994The Madness of King George1994Three Colors: Red1994Dead Man Walking1995Ghost in the Shell1995Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life1995Strange Days1995To Die For1995Twelve Monkeys1995Basquiat1996Hamlet1996Irma Vep1996Primal Fear1996Shine1996Contact1997Donnie Brasco1997Face/Off1997Happy Together1997Little Dieter Needs to Fly1997Lost Highway1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1997Open Your Eyes1997The Eel1997The Ice Storm1997Buffalo '661998Gods and Monsters1998Out of Sight1998Velvet Goldmine1998After Life1999All About My Mother1999Buena Vista Social Club1999Eyes Wide Shut1999Fight Club1999Galaxy Quest1999Girl, Interrupted1999My Best Fiend1999The Hurricane1999The Limey1999The Sixth Sense1999The Talented Mr. Ripley1999Topsy-Turvy1999eXistenZ1999Audition2000Dancer in the Dark2000Memento2000Unbreakable2000Yi Yi2000A Beautiful Mind2001Donnie Darko2001Moulin Rouge!2001Mulholland Drive2001The Devil's Backbone2001The Others2001Adaptation.2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Far from Heaven2002Infernal Affairs2002Insomnia2002Millennium Actress2002Spider-Man2002The Hours2002A Tale of Two Sisters2003Identity2003Last Life in the Universe2003Touching the Void200320462004Collateral2004Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004The Aviator2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004The Machinist2004Tropical Malady2004A Bittersweet Life2005The Constant Gardener2005Déjà Vu2006Inland Empire2006Pan's Labyrinth2006The Illusionist2006The Prestige2006Control2007Mad Detective2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007In Bruges2008Still Walking2008Synecdoche, New York2008The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008Mother2009Star Trek2009Biutiful2010Certified Copy2010Enter the Void2010Inception2010Shutter Island2010TRON: Legacy2010Tiny Furniture2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Scream 42011Source Code2011The Artist2011The Iron Lady2011Like Someone in Love2012Post Tenebras Lux2012Skyfall2012The Act of Killing2012Before Midnight2013The Grandmaster2013The Wind Rises2013Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Clouds of Sils Maria2014Enemy2014Phoenix2014The Babadook2014When Marnie Was There2014X-Men: Days of Future Past201445 Years2015Carol2015Ex Machina2015Arrival2016Kaili Blues2016Personal Shopper2016The Neon Demon2016Beauty and the Beast2017Blade Runner 20492017Forgotten2017Memoir of a Murderer2017Phantom Thread2017You Were Never Really Here2017Annihilation2018Bohemian Rhapsody2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Shadow2018The Rider2018It Chapter Two2019La Flor2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Rocketman2019The Irishman2019Us2019Possessor2020Bergman Island2021Drive My Car2021Last Night in Soho2021Memoria2021Petite Maman2021Petrov's Flu2021tick, tick... BOOM!2021A Man Called Otto2022Aftersun2022Argentina 19852022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022Operation Mincemeat2022Smile2022Suzume2022The Fabelmans2022The Quiet Girl2022X2022All of Us Strangers2023Beau Is Afraid2023Oppenheimer2023The Boy and the Heron202318x2 Beyond Youthful Days2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Deadpool & Wolverine2024I Saw the TV Glow2024Late Night with the Devil2024Queer2024Smile 22024The Fall Guy2024The Substance2024We Live in Time2024Atropia2025Dracula2025How to Train Your Dragon2025KPop Demon Hunters2025Miroirs No. 32025Nouvelle Vague2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Resurrection2025Sentimental Value2025Sound of Falling2025The Currents2025The Ice Tower2025Michael2026Rose of Nevada2026