Sightlines · a concept

falsifying narration

incompossible, contradictory simultaneous presents (vs truthful/organic narration).

On screen: mutually exclusive versions presented as co-true.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLast Year at Marienbad1961DCitizen Kane1941

Across the collection

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1920Vampyr1932Detour1945It's a Wonderful Life1946The Lady from Shanghai1947Rashomon1950Stage Fright1950Ikiru1952Witness for the Prosecution1957Anatomy of a Murder1959The Innocents1961Lolita1962Salvatore Giuliano1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Take It All1963The Spy Who Came In from the Cold1965Alfie1966Belle de Jour1967Branded to Kill1967Point Blank1967Hour of the Wolf1968if....1968Medea1969Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970Performance1970Straw Dogs1971The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972F for Fake1973The Sting1973Touki Bouki1973Céline and Julie Go Boating1974Lenny1974Barry Lyndon1975The Tenant1976That Obscure Object of Desire1977The Last Wave1977The Shout1978The Onion Field1979Blow Out1981Body Heat1981Possession1981Reds1981The French Lieutenant's Woman1981Blade Runner1982The Thing1982The Big Chill1983Videodrome1983Zelig1983Amadeus1984City of Pirates1984Once Upon a Time in America1984Vagabond1985Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986She's Gotta Have It1986House of Games1987The Adventures of Baron Munchausen1988The Thin Blue Line1988For All Mankind1989Close-Up1990GoodFellas1990Jacob's Ladder1990Total Recall1990JFK1991My Own Private Idaho1991Naked Lunch1991Basic Instinct1992Lessons of Darkness1992Man Bites Dog1992Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Before the Rain1994The Hudsucker Proxy1994Casino1995Nixon1995The Usual Suspects1995To Die For1995Twelve Monkeys1995Breaking the Waves1996Lone Star1996Mission: Impossible1996Primal Fear1996Funny Games1997Life Is Beautiful1997Little Dieter Needs to Fly1997Lost Highway1997Open Your Eyes1997Starship Troopers1997The Game1997Run Lola Run1998Velvet Goldmine1998Election1999Eyes Wide Shut1999Fight Club1999Following1999My Best Fiend1999The Sixth Sense1999eXistenZ1999American Psycho2000Audition2000Jesus' Son2000Joint Security Area2000Memento2000A Beautiful Mind2001Batang West Side2001Donnie Darko2001Mulholland Drive2001Ocean's Eleven2001Vanilla Sky200124 Hour Party People200225th Hour2002Adaptation.2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Hero2002Minority Report2002A Tale of Two Sisters2003Code 462003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Identity2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Save the Green Planet!2003The Matrix Reloaded2003House of Flying Daggers2004Ocean's Twelve2004Tropical Malady2004Grizzly Man200512:08 East of Bucharest2006Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006Pan's Labyrinth2006The Illusionist2006The Prestige2006Atonement2007I'm Not There2007Mad Detective2007Funny Games2008Mother2009The White Ribbon2009Black Swan2010Certified Copy2010Inception2010Shutter Island2010The Social Network2010A Separation2011J. Edgar2011Argo2012Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012Life of Pi2012Looper2012American Hustle2013Enemy2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013Gone Girl2014Inherent Vice2014The Babadook2014The World of Kanako2014Ex Machina2015The Big Short2015The Hateful Eight2015The Handmaiden2016The Wailing2016Atomic Blonde2017Forgotten2017I, Tonya2017Memoir of a Murderer2017The Lego Batman Movie2017Annihilation2018Burning2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Vice2018Joker2019Knives Out2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Spider-Man: Far From Home2019The Lighthouse2019Us2019Petrov's Flu2021The Green Knight2021The Last Duel2021Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022Don't Worry Darling2022Elvis2022Everything Everywhere All at Once2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022Incantation2022TÁR2022Anatomy of a Fall2023Oppenheimer2023Soulmate2023Deadpool & Wolverine2024Dreams2024I Saw the TV Glow2024After the Hunt2025Bugonia2025The Housemaid2025Wicked: For Good2025