Sightlines · a concept

impulse image

brute drives tearing fragments from a milieu; naturalism (distinct from realism), governed by entropy.

On screen: compulsion, degradation, appetite, a downward slope toward exhaustion/death.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DBelle de Jour1967DThe Exterminating Angel1962DGreed1924DThe Young and the Damned1950DDiary of a Chambermaid1964

Across the collection

Häxan1922Nosferatu1922La Roue1923Metropolis1927Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans1927Pandora's Box1929Un Chien Andalou1929L'Âge d'or1930The Blue Angel1930Freaks1932Scarface1932Toni1935Orphan's Picnic1936The Tale of the Fox1941Cat People1942Obsession1943The Postman Always Rings Twice1946Brighton Rock1948Drunken Angel1948Macbeth1948Oliver Twist1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948Criss Cross1949The Queen of Spades1949White Heat1949Gun Crazy1950Night and the City1950The Asphalt Jungle1950A Streetcar Named Desire1951Gate of Hell1953Pickup on South Street1953The Big Heat1953The Wages of Fear1953La Strada1954Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954East of Eden1955Kiss Me Deadly1955The Man with the Golden Arm1955The Night of the Hunter1955Forbidden Planet1956Written on the Wind1956Sweet Smell of Success1957Cairo Station1958Suddenly, Last Summer1959Cruel Story of Youth1960Eyes Without a Face1960Peeping Tom1960Psycho1960Rocco and His Brothers1960Saturday Night and Sunday Morning1960The Virgin Spring1960Cape Fear1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962Viridiana1962Hud1963It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World1963Lord of the Flies1963Shock Corridor1963The Servant1963Onibaba1964Pale Flower1964Repulsion1965The Hill1965The Sword of Doom1966Branded to Kill1967Night of the Living Dead1968Oliver!1968The Cremator1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970El Topo1970Le Cercle Rouge1970Tristana1970Carnal Knowledge1971Even Dwarfs Started Small1971The Beguiled1971Wake in Fright1971Deliverance1972Pink Flamingos1972The Holy Mountain1973The Night Porter1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974Carrie1976Female Trouble1976In the Realm of the Senses1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976Taxi Driver1976Equus1977Jabberwocky1977Suspiria1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977Halloween1978Killer of Sheep1978Midnight Express1978Alien1979Scum1979Tess1979The Brood1979The Tin Drum1979Woyzeck1979Altered States1980From the Life of the Marionettes1980Pixote1980Raging Bull1980Body Heat1981Kisapmata1981Modern Romance1981The Postman Always Rings Twice1981White Dog1982Scarface1983Under the Volcano1984Lost in America1985Tampopo1985Betty Blue1986Blue Velvet1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Platoon1986Sid and Nancy1986The Fly1986Fatal Attraction1987Full Metal Jacket1987Salaam Bombay!1988The Vanishing1988Drugstore Cowboy1989Godzilla vs. Biollante1989Leviathan1989Santa Sangre1989Sweetie1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989King of New York1990Cape Fear1991Delicatessen1991Life Is Sweet1991Bad Lieutenant1992Damage1992Jamon Jamon1992One False Move1992Cronos1993Schindler's List1993Little Odessa1994Once Were Warriors1994Shallow Grave1994Clockers1995Crumb1995Kids1995La Cérémonie1995Leaving Las Vegas1995The Blade1995The City of Lost Children1995To Die For1995Crash1996Deep Crimson1996Pusher1996Gummo1997Insomnia1997Nil by Mouth1997Princess Mononoke1997The Eel1997Bullet Ballet1998Happiness1998High Art1998Girl, Interrupted1999Rosetta1999Requiem for a Dream2000Fat Girl2001Hannibal2001Ichi the Killer2001Intacto2001L.I.E.2001Sexy Beast2001The Piano Teacher2001Gangs of New York2002Mango Yellow2002Spider-Man2002Gozu2003House of 1000 Corpses2003Monster2003Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl2003The Cooler2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003Brothers2004Sin City2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005The Proposition2005The Wayward Cloud2005War of the Worlds2005Destiny2006The Host200628 Weeks Later2007No Country for Old Men2007Sunshine2007There Will Be Blood2007[REC]2007The Hurt Locker2008Twilight2008Antichrist2009Dogtooth2009Fantastic Mr. Fox2009The Lovely Bones2009Thirst2009I Saw the Devil2010The Yellow Sea2010Drive2011Shame2011Life of Pi2012The Master2012Blue Is the Warmest Color2013Evil Dead2013Only God Forgives2013Prisoners2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014As Above, So Below2014Creep2014Hard to Be a God2014The Amazing Spider-Man 22014Under the Skin2014Wild Tales2014It Follows2015Sicario2015The Revenant2015Asura: The City of Madness2016The Neon Demon2016Good Time2017It2017Okja2017Raw2017The Shape of Water2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017Climax2018Mandy2018Tumbbad2018Bacurau2019Honeyland2019Parasite2019The Lighthouse2019Uncut Gems2019Another Round2020Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Dinner in America2020Promising Young Woman2020Black Widow2021Cruella2021Jujutsu Kaisen 02021Mad God2021Nightmare Alley2021Titane2021All Quiet on the Western Front2022Babylon2022Barbarian2022Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness2022Pearl2022Thor: Love and Thunder2022Triangle of Sadness2022Poor Things2023Saltburn2023The Iron Claw2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023Alien: Romulus2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Better Man2024Gladiator II2024Lisa Frankenstein2024Misericordia2024Nosferatu2024The Brutalist2024The Girl with the Needle2024The Substance202428 Years Later2025Bring Her Back2025Captain America: Brave New World2025Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle2025Die My Love2025Dracula2025Magellan2025Marty Supreme2025The Smashing Machine2025The Ugly Stepsister2025Urchin2025"Wuthering Heights"202628 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026Evil Dead Burn2026Send Help2026Spider-Man: Brand New Day2026The Drama2026