Sightlines · a concept

the readable image

an image that must be *read*, not just seen; legible/stratified.

On screen: the image loses sensory-motor self-evidence and asks to be deciphered.

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

Across the collection

Häxan1922Shanghai Express1932Beauty and the Beast1946Paisan1946Hamlet1948La Terra Trema1949They Live by Night1949Rashomon1950Ikiru1952Sudden Fear1952Monsieur Hulot's Holiday1953It's Always Fair Weather1955Ordet1955The Big Combo1955Night and Fog1956Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958Mon Oncle1958Imitation of Life1959Suddenly, Last Summer1959When a Woman Ascends the Stairs1960La Notte1961Last Year at Marienbad1961The Innocents1961La Jetée1962Salvatore Giuliano1962The Trial1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Contempt1963Lord of the Flies1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963Take It All1963The House Is Black1963The Silence1963Fail Safe1964Hamlet1964Alphaville1965Darling1965Kwaidan1965Pierrot le Fou1965São Paulo, Incorporated1965The Pawnbroker1965The Secret Formula1965Blow-Up1966Daisies1966Masculin Féminin1966Persona1966Branded to Kill1967La Chinoise1967Mouchette1967Titicut Follies1967Wavelength1967Weekend1967Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Hour of the Wolf1968Memories of Underdevelopment1968Night of the Living Dead1968L'Amour fou1969Satyricon1969The Color of Pomegranates1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969Gimme Shelter1970The Bird with the Crystal Plumage1970Klute1971THX 11381971The Andromeda Strain1971The Go-Between1971Walkabout1971Fata Morgana1972Belladonna of Sadness1973The Holy Mountain1973Touki Bouki1973The Conversation1974India Song1975Night Moves1975The Travelling Players1975All the President's Men1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976Midway1976Network1976The Man Who Fell to Earth1976Eraserhead1977Days of Heaven1978Hitler: A Film from Germany1978Ballad of Tara1979Being There1979Quadrophenia1979From the Life of the Marionettes1980My Dinner with Andre1981The French Lieutenant's Woman1981The Draughtsman's Contract1982The Thing1982Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence1983Sans Soleil1983Videodrome1983Zelig1983Body Double1984City of Pirates1984The Element of Crime1984This Is Spinal Tap1984Shoah1985Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986The Name of the Rose1986Angel Heart1987Good Morning, Vietnam1987Landscape Suicide1987Repentance1987RoboCop1987The Thin Blue Line1988A City of Sadness1989Decalogue I1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989The Seventh Continent1989sex, lies, and videotape1989Barton Fink1991Daughters of the Dust1991Defending Your Life1991JFK1991Prospero's Books1991Damage1992Man Bites Dog1992Blue1993Menace II Society1993The Age of Innocence1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Exotica1994Natural Born Killers1994A Borrowed Life1995Clockers1995Crimson Tide1995Dead Man Walking1995Johnny Mnemonic1995La Cérémonie1995Safe1995Se7en1995Strange Days1995The Blade1995The Usual Suspects1995To Die For1995Basquiat1996Lone Star1996Gattaca1997Open Your Eyes1997Starship Troopers1997Taste of Cherry1997The End of Violence1997Enemy of the State1998Ring1998The Celebration1998Eyes Wide Shut1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Kikujiro1999One Day in September1999The Matrix1999The Sixth Sense1999Three Kings1999Memento2000Thirteen Days2000A Beautiful Mind2001Donnie Darko2001Mulholland Drive2001Read My Lips2001The Others2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001Y Tu Mamá También200124 Hour Party People2002Bus 1742002Hukkle2002Millennium Actress2002Minority Report2002The Ring200221 Grams2003A Tale of Two Sisters2003Code 462003Dogville2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Identity2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Lost in Translation2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Matrix Reloaded2003Touching the Void2003Birth2004Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Man on Fire2004The Machinist2004Caché2005Good Night, and Good Luck.2005Lord of War2005Me and You and Everyone We Know2005Saw II2005Sin City2005Inside Man2006The Illusionist2006The Prestige2006The Queen2006Atonement2007Mad Detective2007Sunshine2007Zodiac2007[REC]2007Che: Part Two2008Cloverfield2008Extraordinary Stories2008Funny Games2008The Headless Woman2008(500) Days of Summer2009Dogtooth2009Inglourious Basterds2009The Secret of Kells2009Flipped2010Police, Adjective2010Shutter Island2010TRON: Legacy2010A Separation2011House of Pleasures2011J. Edgar2011Margin Call2011Meek's Cutoff2011The Darkest Hour2011The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011Killing Them Softly2012Like Someone in Love2012Moonrise Kingdom2012Post Tenebras Lux2012Sinister2012The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012Enemy2013Nebraska2013A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Boy & the World2014Clouds of Sils Maria2014Creep2014Gone Girl2014Hard to Be a God2014Inherent Vice2014Locke2014Phoenix2014The Babadook2014The Grand Budapest Hotel2014Eye in the Sky2015It Follows2015The Big Short2015The Hateful Eight2015The Lobster2015Arrival2016Deadpool2016Personal Shopper2016Rogue One: A Star Wars Story2016Silence2016The Handmaiden2016The Wailing2016War for the Planet of the Apes2017You Were Never Really Here2017Zama2017Black Panther2018First Reformed2018Isle of Dogs2018Never Look Away2018The Favourite2018The Guilty2018The Rider2018Dark Waters2019Midsommar2019Official Secrets2019Spider-Man: Far From Home2019The Report2019Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Saint Maud2020Sound of Metal2020Summer of 852020The Invisible Man2020Don't Look Up2021Drive My Car2021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021The Last Duel2021The Power of the Dog2021Aftersun2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022Incantation2022Moonage Daydream2022Smile2022The Batman2022The Fabelmans2022The Quiet Girl2022TÁR2022All of Us Strangers2023Anatomy of a Fall2023Barbie2023Beau Is Afraid2023Killers of the Flower Moon2023Monster2023Oppenheimer2023Soulmate2023The Zone of Interest2023I Saw the TV Glow2024Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes2024Late Night with the Devil2024Longlegs2024September 52024Strange Darling2024A House of Dynamite2025After the Hunt2025Black Bag2025Bring Her Back2025Companion2025Eddington2025It Was Just an Accident2025The Secret Agent2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Our Land2026Silent Friend2026