Sightlines · a concept

saturated

a sealed crystalline totality; characters incarcerated.

On screen: an enclosed, mirror-saturated world with no outside.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLola Montès1955DLe Plaisir1952

Across the collection

The Lady from Shanghai1947Letter from an Unknown Woman1948All About Eve1950La Ronde1950Sunset Boulevard1950The Strange Ones1950The Earrings of Madame de...1953Seconds1966Le Cercle Rouge1970Performance1970Last Tango in Paris1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972Amarcord1973Enter the Dragon1973The Tenant19763 Women1977Eraserhead1977The Shining1980Zelig1983Brazil1985Dead Ringers1988sex, lies, and videotape1989Total Recall1990Prospero's Books1991Raise the Red Lantern1991The Player1992The Hudsucker Proxy1994Hamlet1996The Portrait of a Lady1996Lost Highway1997Open Your Eyes1997The Game1997Dark City1998The Truman Show1998Being John Malkovich1999Toy Story 21999eXistenZ1999American Psycho2000Amélie2001Russian Ark2002A Tale of Two Sisters2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Identity2003Downfall2004The Aviator2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004The Prestige2006Mad Detective2007Synecdoche, New York2008Dogtooth2009Black Swan2010Inception2010Shutter Island2010Oblivion2013Only God Forgives2013Snowpiercer2013Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Gone Girl2014Ex Machina2015The Neon Demon2016Star Wars: The Last Jedi2017Hereditary2018Ready Player One2018The Favourite2018Midsommar2019The Lighthouse2019Tenet2020The Menu2022The Ice Tower2025