Sightlines · a concept

fetish

the torn-off partial object the drive seizes.

On screen: a part-object (food, body-part, relic) charged with compulsive force.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DBelle de Jour1967

Across the collection

Häxan1922Nosferatu1922Greed1924Un Chien Andalou1929L'Âge d'or1930The Blue Angel1930Freaks1932Scarface1932L'Atalante1934Bringing Up Baby1938Obsession1943Double Indemnity1944Laura1944The Red Shoes1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948White Heat1949Gun Crazy1950The Asphalt Jungle1950The Young and the Damned1950A Streetcar Named Desire1951The Big Heat1953The Man with the Golden Arm1955Written on the Wind1956The Bridge on the River Kwai1957Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958Suddenly, Last Summer1959Peeping Tom1960Psycho1960Rocco and His Brothers1960The Little Shop of Horrors1960Knife in the Water1962Le Doulos1962Viridiana1962What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?1962Diary of a Chambermaid1964Onibaba1964Django1966Branded to Kill1967Oliver!1968The Color of Pomegranates1969Carnal Knowledge1971Dirty Harry1971Even Dwarfs Started Small1971Get Carter1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Frenzy1972The Exorcist1973The Night Porter1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974The Stepford Wives1975In the Realm of the Senses1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976Taxi Driver1976Equus1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977Midnight Express1978Alien1979The Tin Drum1979Pixote1980The Gods Must Be Crazy1980Body Heat1981The Postman Always Rings Twice1981Thief1981Educating Rita1983Scarface1983Under the Volcano1984Tampopo1985Blue Velvet1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986The Fly1986Top Gun1986Fatal Attraction1987Full Metal Jacket1987The Belly of an Architect1987Dead Ringers1988Salaam Bombay!1988The Thin Blue Line1988Drugstore Cowboy1989Leviathan1989Sweetie1989GoodFellas1990Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!1990Cape Fear1991Delicatessen1991Life Is Sweet1991Naked Lunch1991The Silence of the Lambs1991Bad Lieutenant1992Jamon Jamon1992Like Water for Chocolate1992Chungking Express1994Eat Drink Man Woman1994Léon: The Professional1994Once Were Warriors1994Kids1995Crash1996Trainspotting1996Boogie Nights1997Gummo1997Nil by Mouth1997American History X1998Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Fight Club1999Three Kings1999Toy Story 21999American Psycho2000Requiem for a Dream2000Hannibal2001Ichi the Killer2001Intacto2001L.I.E.2001The Piano Teacher2001Mango Yellow2002Punch-Drunk Love2002Gozu2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003The Child2005There Will Be Blood2007The Hurt Locker2008Antichrist2009District 92009Thirst2009The American2010The Yellow Sea2010Shame2011The Adventures of Tintin2011The Bourne Legacy2012The Master2012The Wolf of Wall Street2013Whiplash2014The Witch2016Phantom Thread2017The Lighthouse2019Uncut Gems2019Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Nightmare Alley2021Titane2021Luther: The Fallen Sun2023Saltburn2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023Longlegs2024Oddity2024The Substance2024