Sightlines · a concept

dispersive situation

scattered ensemble, no single englobing situation.

On screen: many weakly-linked characters.

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

Across the collection

Toni1935Rome, Open City1945Paisan1946The Best Years of Our Lives1946The Big Sleep1946Odd Man Out1947I Vitelloni1953Monsieur Hulot's Holiday1953It's Always Fair Weather1955Marty1955Ashes and Diamonds1958Cairo Station1958The 400 Blows1959Shadows1960A Taste of Honey1961La Notte1961Salvatore Giuliano1962The Longest Day1962It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963A Hard Day's Night1964Band of Outsiders1964Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964Masculin Féminin1966The Brick and the Mirror1966PlayTime1967Weekend1967Faces1968Stolen Kisses1968The Party1968Easy Rider1969Invasion1969Satyricon1969Catch-221970Five Easy Pieces1970M*A*S*H1970Tora! Tora! Tora!1970McCabe & Mrs. Miller1971Murmur of the Heart1971The Decameron1971Roma1972American Graffiti1973Mean Streets1973The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973The Long Goodbye1973The Phantom of Liberty1974Nashville1975Shampoo1975Marathon Man1976A Bridge Too Far1977Killer of Sheep1978The Tree of Wooden Clogs1978Manhattan1979The Onion Field1979Heaven's Gate1980Pixote1980The Blues Brothers1980Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982Born in Flames1983Local Hero1983The Big Chill1983Memories of Prison1984My Life as a Dog1985The Breakfast Club1985Vagabond1985The Dead1987Colors1988Do the Right Thing1989Godzilla vs. Biollante1989American Dream1990Days of Being Wild1990Metropolitan1990Slacker1990A Brighter Summer Day1991Night on Earth1991Dazed and Confused1993Naked1993Schindler's List1993Short Cuts1993Chungking Express1994Pulp Fiction1994Rebels of the Neon God1994Kicking and Screaming1995Kids1995La Haine1995Boogie Nights1997The End of Violence1997The Ice Storm1997Happiness1998Last Night1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels1998The Big Lebowski1998The Idiots1998The Last Days of Disco1998Julien Donkey-Boy1999Magnolia1999Amores Perros2000Best in Show2000Code Unknown2000Jesus' Son2000Snatch2000Songs from the Second Floor2000Traffic2000Yi Yi2000Black Hawk Down2001Gosford Park2001La Ciénaga2001Bloody Sunday2002Mango Yellow2002Carandiru2003Intermission2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Laurel Canyon2003PTU2003The Station Agent2003Napoleon Dynamite2004Me and You and Everyone We Know2005Syriana2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005Babel2006Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006The Host2006United 932006Zodiac2007Burn After Reading2008Extraordinary Stories2008Gomorrah2008The Chaser2008Iron Man 22010Tiny Furniture2010Contagion2011Playing for Keeps2012Frances Ha2013Inside Llewyn Davis2013Nebraska2013The Great Beauty2013From What Is Before2014Guardians of the Galaxy2014Inherent Vice2014The Amazing Spider-Man 22014The Big Short2015Certain Women2016Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017The Square2017It Chapter Two2019Crisis2021Don't Look Up2021Licorice Pizza2021The Hand of God2021Barbarian2022White Noise202212.12: The Day2023A Real Pain2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Woman of the Hour2024A House of Dynamite2025Eddington2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025One Battle After Another2025Weapons2025Young Mothers2025