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.

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

Across the collection

Häxan1922Shanghai Express1932Paisan1946Hamlet1948La Terra Trema1949Rashomon1950Ikiru1952Sudden Fear1952Ordet1955Night and Fog1956Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958Suddenly, Last Summer1959La Notte1961Last Year at Marienbad1961La Jetée1962Salvatore Giuliano1962The Trial1962Vivre Sa Vie1962Contempt1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963The Silence1963Fail Safe1964Alphaville1965Darling1965Kwaidan1965Pierrot le Fou1965The Pawnbroker1965Blow-Up1966Masculin Féminin1966Persona1966Branded to Kill1967La Chinoise1967Mouchette1967Weekend1967Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Hour of the Wolf1968Night of the Living Dead1968Satyricon1969The Color of Pomegranates1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969Gimme Shelter1970Klute1971THX 11381971The Andromeda Strain1971The Go-Between1971Walkabout1971Fata Morgana1972The Holy Mountain1973The Conversation1974India Song1975Night Moves1975The Travelling Players1975All the President's Men1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976Midway1976Network1976The Man Who Fell to Earth1976Eraserhead1977Days of Heaven1978Being There1979From the Life of the Marionettes1980The Draughtsman's Contract1982The Thing1982Sans Soleil1983Videodrome1983Zelig1983Body Double1984This Is Spinal Tap1984Shoah1985Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986The Name of the Rose1986Angel Heart1987Good Morning, Vietnam1987RoboCop1987The Thin Blue Line1988Decalogue I1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989The Seventh Continent1989sex, lies, and videotape1989Barton Fink1991JFK1991Prospero's Books1991Man Bites Dog1992The Age of Innocence1993Natural Born Killers1994Clockers1995Crimson Tide1995Dead Man Walking1995Johnny Mnemonic1995La Cérémonie1995Safe1995Se7en1995Strange Days1995The Usual Suspects1995Gattaca1997Open 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 Drive2001The Others2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001Y Tu Mamá También200124 Hour Party People2002Bus 1742002Hukkle2002Minority Report2002The Ring200221 Grams2003A Tale of Two Sisters2003Code 462003Dogville2003Good Bye, Lenin!2003Identity2003Lost in Translation2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003The Matrix Reloaded2003Touching the Void2003Man on Fire2004The Machinist2004Caché2005Good Night, and Good Luck.2005Lord of War2005Sin City2005Inside Man2006The Illusionist2006The Prestige2006The Queen2006Atonement2007Mad Detective2007Zodiac2007Cloverfield2008Funny Games2008Dogtooth2009Inglourious Basterds2009Police, Adjective2010Shutter Island2010A Separation2011J. Edgar2011Margin Call2011Meek's Cutoff2011The Darkest Hour2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011Killing Them Softly2012The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Gone Girl2014Inherent Vice2014Locke2014The Babadook2014The Grand Budapest Hotel2014Eye in the Sky2015It Follows2015The Big Short2015The Hateful Eight2015The Lobster2015Arrival2016Deadpool2016The Handmaiden2016The Wailing2016You Were Never Really Here2017Black Panther2018First Reformed2018The Favourite2018The Guilty2018Dark Waters2019Midsommar2019Official Secrets2019The Report2019Beasts Clawing at Straws2020Saint Maud2020The Invisible Man2020Don't Look Up2021Drive My Car2021The Last Duel2021The Power of the Dog2021Aftersun2022Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery2022The Batman2022TÁR2022Anatomy of a Fall2023Killers of the Flower Moon2023Monster2023Oppenheimer2023The Zone of Interest2023Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes2024Longlegs2024September 52024Strange Darling2024A House of Dynamite2025After the Hunt2025Black Bag2025Eddington2025It Was Just an Accident2025The Secret Agent2025The Voice of Hind Rajab2025Our Land2026Silent Friend2026