Sightlines · a concept

crystalline description

description that creates and erases its object (vs organic description that assumes a prior reality).

On screen: images/words that compose then replace their own object.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLast Year at Marienbad1961

Across the collection

Un Chien Andalou1929Citizen Kane1941Laura1944Letter from an Unknown Woman1948Rashomon1950Stage Fright1950Othello1951Ikiru1952Ugetsu1953Diabolique1955Vertigo1958Anatomy of a Murder1959Black Orpheus1959The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962The Manchurian Candidate1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Juliet of the Spirits1965Blow-Up1966Belle de Jour1967Hour of the Wolf1968Petulia1968if....1968Fata Morgana1972Amarcord1973F for Fake1973Alice in the Cities1974The Conversation1974Annie Hall1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977All That Jazz1979Stalker1979Reds1981The Draughtsman's Contract1982Sans Soleil1983Zelig1983Body Double1984A Zed & Two Noughts1985To Live and Die in L.A.1985Caravaggio1986She's Gotta Have It1986House of Games1987The Thin Blue Line1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988The Abyss1989The Grifters1990Total Recall1990JFK1991Naked Lunch1991Prospero's Books1991Terminator 2: Judgment Day1991The Double Life of Véronique1991Basic Instinct1992The Player1992Forrest Gump1994Ghost in the Shell1995The Usual Suspects1995Contact1997L.A. Confidential1997Little Dieter Needs to Fly1997The Game1997Dark City1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon1998Ring1998Velvet Goldmine1998After Life1999All About My Mother1999Galaxy Quest1999My Best Fiend1999The Limey1999The Talented Mr. Ripley1999The Thomas Crown Affair1999eXistenZ1999American Psycho2000In the Mood for Love2000Memento2000O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000The Virgin Suicides2000Amélie2001Mulholland Drive2001Vanilla Sky2001Adaptation.2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Hero2002Talk to Her2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002Code 462003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Identity200320462004Closer2004Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004Ocean's Twelve2004The Machinist2004Caché2005Sin City2005The Illusionist2006Atonement2007Inglourious Basterds2009Certified Copy2010The Social Network2010A Separation2011American Hustle2013Gone Girl2014Nightcrawler2014The World of Kanako2014Cemetery of Splendor2015The Handmaiden2016Forgotten2017I, Tonya2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi2017Burning2018Ready Player One2018Shadow2018The Guilty2018Joker2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019Rocketman2019Petrov's Flu2021The Last Duel2021Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022Operation Mincemeat2022Anatomy of a Fall2023Dream Scenario2023A Complete Unknown2024Dreams2024Strange Darling2024Hamnet2025Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning2025Romería2025Sentimental Value2025The Blue Trail2025The Currents2025Twinless2025