Sightlines · a concept

story-telling / legending

the legend-making speech-act that brings a not-yet people into being.

On screen: subjects caught "in the act of legending" themselves.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DChronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968

Across the collection

Nanook of the North1922Fort Apache1948The Strange Ones1950The River1951Johnny Guitar1954Bob le Flambeur1956Nights of Cabiria1957Pyaasa1957Rio, Northern Zone1957Black Orpheus1959The 400 Blows1959Primary1960Shadows1960Breakfast at Tiffany's1961Chronicle of a Summer1961Lawrence of Arabia1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Take It All1963The House Is Black1963A Hard Day's Night1964I Am Cuba1964Darling1965Kwaidan1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965Alfie1966Andrei Rublev1966King of Hearts1966Masculin Féminin1966The Battle of Algiers1966Tokyo Drifter1966Bonnie and Clyde1967In Cold Blood1967Invasion1969L'Amour fou1969Medium Cool1969Patton1970Pink Flamingos1972Amarcord1973Belladonna of Sadness1973F for Fake1973O Lucky Man!1973Sambizanga1973Soleil O1973The Mother and the Whore1973The Wicker Man1973Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore1974Badlands1974Céline and Julie Go Boating1974Lenny1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Dog Day Afternoon1975The Man Who Would Be King1975The Travelling Players1975Female Trouble1976Grey Gardens1976Heart of Glass1976Network1976Annie Hall1977Stroszek1977Days of Heaven1978The Deer Hunter1978The Last Waltz1978The Tree of Wooden Clogs1978Watership Down1978Ballad of Tara1979Life of Brian1979The Man Who Stole the Sun1979The Tin Drum1979The Gods Must Be Crazy1980The Last Metro1980My Dinner with Andre1981Reds1981Fanny and Alexander1982Born in Flames1983Educating Rita1983Sugar Cane Alley1983The Big Chill1983Zelig1983Macross: Do You Remember Love?1984Memories of Prison1984Paris, Texas1984This Is Spinal Tap1984My Beautiful Laundrette1985My Life as a Dog1985Out of Africa1985Rendez-vous1985Shoah1985The Breakfast Club1985Vagabond1985Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling1986She's Gotta Have It1986Sid and Nancy1986Stand by Me1986The Green Ray1986Fatal Attraction1987La Bamba1987Raising Arizona1987Repentance1987Withnail & I1987Bull Durham1988The Adventures of Baron Munchausen1988Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser1988Born on the Fourth of July1989Dead Poets Society1989Do the Right Thing1989For All Mankind1989American Dream1990Close-Up1990Europa Europa1990Slacker1990Wild at Heart1990A Brighter Summer Day1991Bugsy1991Daughters of the Dust1991Naked Lunch1991Once Upon a Time in China1991Paris Is Burning1991Prospero's Books1991The Doors1991The Fisher King1991Thelma & Louise1991Like Water for Chocolate1992Malcolm X1992Man Bites Dog1992Orlando1992Reservoir Dogs1992The Last of the Mohicans1992Naked1993Sankofa1993Hoop Dreams1994Before Sunrise1995Crumb1995Get Shorty1995Basquiat1996Bottle Rocket1996Lone Star1996Swallowtail Butterfly1996When We Were Kings1996Gummo1997Jackie Brown1997Life Is Beautiful1997Little Dieter Needs to Fly1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1997Taste of Cherry1997The Full Monty1997Waiting for Guffman1997A Bug's Life1998American History X1998Central Station1998Gods and Monsters1998The Big Lebowski1998The Idiots1998The Last Days of Disco1998Velvet Goldmine1998After Life1999All About My Mother1999American Beauty1999Boys Don't Cry1999Buena Vista Social Club1999Galaxy Quest1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Girl, Interrupted1999Mifune1999My Best Fiend1999Almost Famous2000Before Night Falls2000Best in Show2000Love & Basketball2000O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000The Gleaners and I2000The Virgin Suicides2000Tigerland2000Amélie2001Bridget Jones's Diary2001Elling2001Enemy at the Gates2001Fat Girl2001Hedwig and the Angry Inch2001L.I.E.2001Y Tu Mamá También200124 Hour Party People200225th Hour2002Bus 1742002Catch Me If You Can2002City of God2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Gangs of New York2002Millennium Actress2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002Carandiru2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Intermission2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Save the Green Planet!2003The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004Tropical Malady2004Grizzly Man2005Me and You and Everyone We Know200512:08 East of Bucharest2006Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006Casino Royale2006Children of Men2006Letters from Iwo Jima2006The Last King of Scotland2006United 9320063002007Cloud2007I Am Legend2007I'm Not There2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007The Mist2007Extraordinary Stories2008Frost/Nixon2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #12008A Prophet2009District 92009Inglourious Basterds2009Polytechnique2009The White Ribbon2009Carlos2010Prince of Broadway2010Tiny Furniture2010True Grit2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Le Havre2011Argo2012Beasts of the Southern Wild2012Django Unchained2012Nameless Gangster2012The Act of Killing2012The Hunger Games2012Wolf Children2012American Hustle2013Frances Ha2013Nebraska2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013Boy & the World2014Dawn of the Planet of the Apes2014From What Is Before2014Inherent Vice2014Phoenix2014The Grand Budapest Hotel2014Chappie2015Dheepan2015Kubo and the Two Strings2016Darkest Hour2017Mudbound2017The Florida Project2017The Greatest Showman2017The Other Side of Hope2017The Shape of Water2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017At Eternity's Gate2018Black Panther2018Capernaum2018Shoplifters2018The Rider2018Ad Astra2019Bacurau2019Honeyland2019La Flor2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Rocketman2019Spider-Man: Far From Home2019David Byrne's American Utopia2020Dinner in America2020Last and First Men2020One Night in Miami...2020Saint Maud2020Drive My Car2021Fear Street: 19942021The Green Knight2021The Hand of God2021Titane2021tick, tick... BOOM!2021Argentina 19852022Entergalactic2022Kantara2022Moonage Daydream2022Operation Mincemeat2022The Black Phone2022The Fabelmans2022TÁR2022Killers of the Flower Moon2023Priscilla2023Red, White & Royal Blue2023Society of the Snow2023The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023A Complete Unknown2024Better Man2024Dreams2024Dune: Part Two2024Gladiator II2024Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes2024Sing Sing2024The Order2024Wicked2024Afternoons of Solitude2025Blue Moon2025Companion2025Frankenstein2025My Father's Shadow2025Nouvelle Vague2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Romería2025Sentimental Value2025Sinners2025Sore: A Wife from the Future2025The Blue Trail2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Secret Agent2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Thunderbolts*2025Train Dreams2025Warfare2025Wicked: For Good202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026Citizen Vigilante2026De Gaulle: Liberté2026Dry Leaf2026In Waves2026Our Land2026The Sheep Detectives2026