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.

215 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 Ones1950Johnny Guitar1954Bob le Flambeur1956Nights of Cabiria1957Black Orpheus1959The 400 Blows1959Primary1960Shadows1960Breakfast at Tiffany's1961Chronicle of a Summer1961Lawrence of Arabia1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962A Hard Day's Night1964I Am Cuba1964Darling1965Kwaidan1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965Alfie1966Andrei Rublev1966King of Hearts1966Masculin Féminin1966The Battle of Algiers1966Tokyo Drifter1966Bonnie and Clyde1967In Cold Blood1967Medium Cool1969Patton1970Amarcord1973F for Fake1973O Lucky Man!1973The Wicker Man1973Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore1974Badlands1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Dog Day Afternoon1975The Man Who Would Be King1975The Travelling Players1975Grey Gardens1976Heart of Glass1976Network1976Annie Hall1977Stroszek1977Days of Heaven1978The Deer Hunter1978The Last Waltz1978Life of Brian1979The Tin Drum1979The Gods Must Be Crazy1980Reds1981Fanny and Alexander1982Educating Rita1983Zelig1983Paris, Texas1984This Is Spinal Tap1984My Life as a Dog1985Out of Africa1985Rendez-vous1985Shoah1985The Breakfast Club1985She's Gotta Have It1986Stand by Me1986Fatal Attraction1987Raising Arizona1987Withnail & I1987Born on the Fourth of July1989Dead Poets Society1989Do the Right Thing1989For All Mankind1989Europa Europa1990Slacker1990Wild at Heart1990Bugsy1991Naked Lunch1991Once Upon a Time in China1991Prospero's Books1991The Doors1991The Fisher King1991Thelma & Louise1991Like Water for Chocolate1992Malcolm X1992Man Bites Dog1992Reservoir Dogs1992The Last of the Mohicans1992Naked1993Get Shorty1995When 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 Idiots1998Velvet Goldmine1998After Life1999All About My Mother1999American Beauty1999Boys Don't Cry1999Galaxy Quest1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Mifune1999My Best Fiend1999Almost Famous2000Before Night Falls2000Best in Show2000O Brother, Where Art Thou?2000The Virgin Suicides2000Tigerland2000Amélie2001Bridget Jones's Diary2001Elling2001Enemy at the Gates2001L.I.E.2001Y Tu Mamá También200124 Hour Party People200225th Hour2002Bus 1742002Catch Me If You Can2002City of God2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Gangs of New York2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002Carandiru2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Intermission2003The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou2004Tropical Malady2004Grizzly Man200512:08 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 Ford2007Frost/Nixon2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #12008A Prophet2009District 92009Inglourious Basterds2009The White Ribbon2009Carlos2010True Grit2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010Argo2012Beasts of the Southern Wild2012Django Unchained2012Nameless Gangster2012The Act of Killing2012The Hunger Games2012American Hustle2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013Inherent Vice2014The Grand Budapest Hotel2014Chappie2015Darkest Hour2017The Florida Project2017Black Panther2018Capernaum2018Shoplifters2018Ad Astra2019Honeyland2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Rocketman2019Saint Maud2020Drive My Car2021The Green Knight2021Titane2021Argentina 19852022Operation Mincemeat2022TÁR2022Killers of the Flower Moon2023Society of the Snow2023A Complete Unknown2024Dreams2024Dune: Part Two2024Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes2024The Order2024Afternoons of Solitude2025Blue Moon2025Frankenstein2025My Father's Shadow2025Nouvelle Vague2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Romería2025Sentimental Value2025Sinners2025The Blue Trail2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Secret Agent2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Train Dreams2025Warfare202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026Dry Leaf2026Our Land2026