Sightlines · a concept

index of equivocity

an ambiguous gesture fitting two situations.

On screen: the same act could belong to two different situations.

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

Across the collection

The Kid1921A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate1923The Circus1928City Lights1931My Man Godfrey1936The Awful Truth1937Bringing Up Baby1938The Lady Vanishes1938Destry Rides Again1939The Maltese Falcon1941Cat People1942The Palm Beach Story1942Heaven Can Wait1943Detour1945The Big Sleep1946Out of the Past1947The Fallen Idol1948Criss Cross1949A Place in the Sun1951Pickup on South Street1953Roman Holiday1953The Naked Spur1953A Lesson in Love1954Smiles of a Summer Night1955To Catch a Thief195512 Angry Men1957Night of the Demon1957Yojimbo1961In the Heat of the Night1967Bullitt1968The Producers1968The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970Chinatown1974Night Moves1975Tootsie1982White Dog1982Risky Business1983The Element of Crime1984After Hours1985Blood Simple1985Something Wild1986Au Revoir les Enfants1987Moonstruck1987Bull Durham1988Crossing Delancey1988Dances with Wolves1990The Hunt for Red October1990Defending Your Life1991My Cousin Vinny1992Police Story 3: Super Cop1992The Crying Game1992Drunken Master III1994Eat Drink Man Woman1994Bottle Rocket1996Bound1996Insomnia1997L.A. Confidential1997Love & Basketball2000Thirteen Days2000Mystic River2003Layer Cake2004Saving Face2004Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005Gone Baby Gone2007The Mist2007Burn After Reading2008Flipped2010Scream 42011Jack Reacher2012Iron Man 32013A Hard Day2014American Sniper2014The Way He Looks2014Good Time2017Murder on the Orient Express2017The Resistance Banker2018To All the Boys I've Loved Before2018Enola Holmes2020Promising Young Woman2020Luca2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021Barbarian2022Bullet Train2022Enola Holmes 22022Incantation2022Where the Crawdads Sing2022Anyone but You2023No Hard Feelings2023Scream VI2023Carry-On2024Heretic2024The Fall Guy2024Trap2024How to Train Your Dragon2025The Housemaid2025Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery2025Zootopia 22025The Drama2026