Sightlines · a concept

dicisign

"solid" perception; a perception framed within another (free indirect / semi-subjective).

On screen: the camera perceives a character who is perceiving; we feel the camera's presence.

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

Across the collection

La Roue1923The Last Laugh1924The Circus1928Man with a Movie Camera1929Hell's Angels1930The Lady Vanishes1938The Lady Eve1941Lifeboat1944A Matter of Life and Death1946Gilda1946Notorious1946Dark Passage1947Oliver Twist1948Rope1948The Fallen Idol1948Gun Crazy1950In a Lonely Place1950Shane1953The War of the Worlds1953Rear Window1954To Catch a Thief195519841956The Man Who Knew Too Much195612 Angry Men1957The Cranes Are Flying1957Cairo Station1958Peeping Tom1960Primary1960Psycho1960The Innocents1961Cléo from 5 to 71962To Kill a Mockingbird1962Jason and the Argonauts1963Take It All1963A Hard Day's Night1964Charulata1964Marnie1964The Ipcress File1965Seconds1966The Battle of Algiers1966War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova1966Memories of Underdevelopment1968Rosemary's Baby1968Targets1968The Thomas Crown Affair1968L'Amour fou1969Medium Cool1969The Cremator1969The Swimming Pool1969M*A*S*H1970The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970A Clockwork Orange1971The French Connection1971Don't Look Now1973Sisters1973The Exorcist1973The Long Goodbye1973Grey Gardens1976Taxi Driver1976The Tenant1976News from Home1977The American Friend1977Dressed to Kill1980The Elephant Man1980Gorky Park1983Body Double1984Blue Velvet1986Manhunter1986Mona Lisa1986Something Wild1986Cinema Paradiso1988Colors1988Hairspray1988La Belle Noiseuse1991The Silence of the Lambs1991Basic Instinct1992Man Bites Dog1992Moving1993Rebels of the Neon God1994Shallow Grave1994The Madness of King George1994A Borrowed Life1995Heat1995La Promesse1996Mission: Impossible1996Pusher1996The Arrival1996When We Were Kings1996Boogie Nights1997Enemy of the State1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Pi1998Saving Private Ryan1998The Celebration1998The Truman Show1998Following1999Girl, Interrupted1999The Blair Witch Project1999The Insider1999The Thomas Crown Affair1999Best in Show2000The Gleaners and I2000Yi Yi2000Enemy at the Gates2001Read My Lips2001Training Day2001Bloody Sunday2002Russian Ark2002Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Kitchen Stories2003The Bourne Supremacy2004King Kong2005Déjà Vu2006The Last King of Scotland2006I'm Not There2007Mad Detective2007The Bourne Ultimatum2007[REC]2007Body of Lies2008Cloverfield2008Iron Man2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #12008The Headless Woman2008The Hurt Locker2008The Wrestler2008Twilight2008Polytechnique2009Enter the Void2010The Town2010A Separation2011Scream 42011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011Jack Reacher2012Sinister2012The Cabin in the Woods2012Blue Is the Warmest Color2013Captain Phillips2013Man of Steel2013Stoker2013The Berlin File2013The Great Beauty2013A Most Wanted Man2014As Above, So Below2014Creep2014Force Majeure2014Godzilla2014Hard to Be a God2014Nightcrawler2014The Way He Looks2014The World of Kanako2014Bridge of Spies2015Carol2015Creed2015Ex Machina2015The Martian2015Jason Bourne2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story2016Baby Driver2017Forgotten2017A Star Is Born2018At Eternity's Gate2018Sicario: Day of the Soldado2018The Rider2018Wildlife2018Five Feet Apart2019Official Secrets2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019Another Round2020Saint Maud2020A Quiet Place Part II2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021Babylon2022Pearl2022The Fabelmans2022The Quiet Girl2022Where the Crawdads Sing2022X2022Five Nights at Freddy's2023Monster2023Saltburn2023Carry-On2024Challengers2024Flow2024Smile 22024The Substance2024Trap2024Woman of the Hour2024Black Bag2025Bring Her Back2025Bugonia2025F12025Jurassic World Rebirth2025Pillion2025Backrooms2026Girls Like Girls2026Obsession2026Remarkably Bright Creatures2026The Drama2026