Sightlines · a concept

dispersive situation

scattered ensemble, no single englobing situation.

On screen: many weakly-linked characters.

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

Across the collection

Toni1935Rome, Open City1945Paisan1946The Best Years of Our Lives1946The Big Sleep1946I Vitelloni1953Marty1955Ashes and Diamonds1958The 400 Blows1959Shadows1960A Taste of Honey1961La Notte1961Salvatore Giuliano1962The Longest Day1962A Hard Day's Night1964Band of Outsiders1964Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964Masculin Féminin1966PlayTime1967Weekend1967Faces1968The Party1968Easy Rider1969Satyricon1969Catch-221970Five Easy Pieces1970M*A*S*H1970Tora! Tora! Tora!1970McCabe & Mrs. Miller1971American Graffiti1973Mean Streets1973The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973The Long Goodbye1973Nashville1975Marathon Man1976A Bridge Too Far1977Manhattan1979The Onion Field1979Heaven's Gate1980Pixote1980The Blues Brothers1980My Life as a Dog1985The Breakfast Club1985Colors1988Do the Right Thing1989Days of Being Wild1990Slacker1990Dazed and Confused1993Naked1993Schindler's List1993Short Cuts1993Chungking Express1994Pulp Fiction1994Kids1995La Haine1995Boogie Nights1997The End of Violence1997The Ice Storm1997Happiness1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels1998The Big Lebowski1998The Idiots1998Julien Donkey-Boy1999Magnolia1999Amores Perros2000Best in Show2000Code Unknown2000Jesus' Son2000Snatch2000Songs from the Second Floor2000Traffic2000Black Hawk Down2001Gosford Park2001Bloody Sunday2002Mango Yellow2002Carandiru2003Intermission2003Laurel Canyon2003PTU2003The Station Agent2003Napoleon Dynamite2004Syriana2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005Babel2006Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006The Host2006United 932006Zodiac2007Burn After Reading2008Gomorrah2008The Chaser2008Iron Man 22010Contagion2011Playing for Keeps2012Inside Llewyn Davis2013Inherent Vice2014The Big Short2015The Square2017Crisis2021Don't Look Up2021Licorice Pizza202112.12: The Day2023Woman of the Hour2024A House of Dynamite2025Eddington2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025One Battle After Another2025Weapons2025Young Mothers2025