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.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLast Year at Marienbad1961

Across the collection

Un Chien Andalou1929Citizen Kane1941Laura1944Detour1945Letter from an Unknown Woman1948Kind Hearts and Coronets1949Rashomon1950Stage Fright1950Othello1951Ikiru1952Ugetsu1953Diabolique1955Vertigo1958Anatomy of a Murder1959Black Orpheus1959The Innocents1961The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962The Manchurian Candidate1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Juliet of the Spirits1965Blow-Up1966Belle de Jour1967Hour of the Wolf1968Petulia1968if....1968L'Amour fou1969The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970Fata Morgana1972Roma1972Amarcord1973F for Fake1973Alice in the Cities1974Lenny1974The Conversation1974Female Trouble1976Annie Hall1977House1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977All That Jazz1979Stalker1979Modern Romance1981My Dinner with Andre1981Reds1981The Draughtsman's Contract1982Sans Soleil1983Zelig1983Body Double1984Nineteen Eighty-Four1984The Element of Crime1984A Zed & Two Noughts1985To Live and Die in L.A.1985Caravaggio1986She's Gotta Have It1986House of Games1987La Bamba1987The Adventures of Baron Munchausen1988The Thin Blue Line1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988The Abyss1989Close-Up1990The Grifters1990Total Recall1990JFK1991Naked Lunch1991Paris Is Burning1991Prospero's Books1991Terminator 2: Judgment Day1991The Double Life of Véronique1991Basic Instinct1992The Player1992Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Forrest Gump1994Ghost in the Shell1995The Usual Suspects1995To Die For1995Basquiat1996Contact1997L.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 Quest1999Girl, Interrupted1999My Best Fiend1999The Limey1999The Talented Mr. Ripley1999The Thomas Crown Affair1999eXistenZ1999American Psycho2000In the Mood for Love2000Memento2000O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000The Virgin Suicides2000Amélie2001Moulin Rouge!2001Mulholland Drive2001Vanilla Sky2001Adaptation.2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Hero2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones2002Talk to Her2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002Code 462003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Identity2003Save the Green Planet!200320462004Birth2004Closer2004Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004Ocean's Twelve2004The Machinist2004Caché2005Me and You and Everyone We Know2005Sin City2005The Illusionist2006Atonement2007The Darjeeling Limited2007Extraordinary Stories2008The Curious Case of Benjamin Button2008(500) Days of Summer2009Inglourious Basterds2009Certified Copy2010The Social Network2010A Separation2011Scream 42011Life of Pi2012Like Someone in Love2012American Hustle2013Iron Man 32013A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014Clouds of Sils Maria2014Creep2014Gone Girl2014Nightcrawler2014Phoenix2014The World of Kanako2014Cemetery of Splendor2015Kubo and the Two Strings2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story2016The Handmaiden2016Visaranai2016Beauty and the Beast2017Forgotten2017I, Tonya2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi2017Burning2018Never Look Away2018Ready Player One2018Shadow2018The Guilty2018Wildlife2018It Chapter Two2019Joker2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019Rocketman2019Spider-Man: Far From Home2019Last and First Men2020Summer of 852020Bergman Island2021Last Night in Soho2021Petrov's Flu2021The Last Duel2021Don't Worry Darling2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022Incantation2022Moonage Daydream2022Operation Mincemeat2022White Noise2022Anatomy of a Fall2023Dream Scenario2023Soulmate2023A Complete Unknown2024Better Man2024Dreams2024Heretic2024Inside Out 22024Lisa Frankenstein2024Queer2024Strange Darling2024Hamnet2025How to Train Your Dragon2025Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning2025Romería2025Sentimental Value2025The Blue Trail2025The Currents2025The Fantastic 4: First Steps2025Twinless2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery2025Wicked: For Good2025Obsession2026