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.

185 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

Häxan1922Nosferatu1922Metropolis1927Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans1927Un Chien Andalou1929L'Âge d'or1930The Blue Angel1930Freaks1932Scarface1932Toni1935Obsession1943The Postman Always Rings Twice1946Macbeth1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948White 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 Eden1955The Man with the Golden Arm1955The Night of the Hunter1955Written on the Wind1956Sweet Smell of Success1957Suddenly, Last Summer1959Eyes Without a Face1960Peeping Tom1960Psycho1960Rocco and His Brothers1960Saturday Night and Sunday Morning1960The Virgin Spring1960Cape Fear1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962Viridiana1962Hud1963Shock Corridor1963The Servant1963Onibaba1964Pale Flower1964Repulsion1965The Hill1965The Sword of Doom1966Branded to Kill1967Night of the Living Dead1968Oliver!1968They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969Beyond the Valley of the Dolls1970El Topo1970Le Cercle Rouge1970Carnal Knowledge1971Even Dwarfs Started Small1971Deliverance1972The Holy Mountain1973The Night Porter1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974Carrie1976In the Realm of the Senses1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976Taxi Driver1976Equus1977Suspiria1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977Halloween1978Midnight Express1978Alien1979The Tin Drum1979Woyzeck1979Altered States1980From the Life of the Marionettes1980Pixote1980Raging Bull1980Body Heat1981The Postman Always Rings Twice1981Scarface1983Under the Volcano1984Tampopo1985Blue Velvet1986Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Platoon1986The Fly1986Fatal Attraction1987Full Metal Jacket1987Salaam Bombay!1988The Vanishing1988Drugstore Cowboy1989Leviathan1989Santa Sangre1989Sweetie1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989King of New York1990Cape Fear1991Delicatessen1991Life Is Sweet1991Bad Lieutenant1992Jamon Jamon1992Schindler's List1993Once Were Warriors1994Clockers1995Kids1995La Cérémonie1995Leaving Las Vegas1995The City of Lost Children1995Crash1996Pusher1996Gummo1997Nil by Mouth1997The Eel1997Happiness1998Rosetta1999Requiem for a Dream2000Hannibal2001Ichi the Killer2001Intacto2001L.I.E.2001Sexy Beast2001The Piano Teacher2001Gangs of New York2002Mango Yellow2002Gozu2003Monster2003The Cooler2003The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King2003Brothers2004Sin City2005The Proposition2005War of the Worlds2005Destiny2006The Host200628 Weeks Later2007No Country for Old Men2007There Will Be Blood2007The Hurt Locker2008Antichrist2009Dogtooth2009Thirst2009I Saw the Devil2010The Yellow Sea2010Drive2011Shame2011The Master2012Only God Forgives2013Prisoners2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013Under the Skin2014It Follows2015Sicario2015The Revenant2015Asura: The City of Madness2016The Neon Demon2016Honeyland2019Parasite2019The Lighthouse2019Uncut Gems2019Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Nightmare Alley2021Titane2021All Quiet on the Western Front2022Triangle of Sadness2022Poor Things2023Saltburn2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023Alien: Romulus2024Misericordia2024Nosferatu2024The Brutalist2024The Girl with the Needle2024The Substance202428 Years Later2025Die My Love2025Magellan2025Marty Supreme2025The Smashing Machine2025Urchin202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026