Sightlines · a concept

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affect as a *power/intensity*; the intensive/feature face crossing a threshold.

On screen: micro-movements building intensity across a face; the desiring/threshold face.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DPersona1966

Across the collection

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1920Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler1922Nosferatu1922Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans1927The Passion of Joan of Arc1928City Lights1931M1931Vampyr1932L'Atalante1934Mr. Smith Goes to Washington1939Now, Voyager1942Day of Wrath1943To Have and Have Not1945Gilda1946Notorious1946Black Narcissus1947The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948White Heat1949In a Lonely Place1950A Place in the Sun1951Sudden Fear1952Pickup on South Street1953Shane1953Johnny Guitar1954On the Waterfront1954Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954East of Eden1955Rebel Without a Cause1955The Man Who Knew Too Much195612 Angry Men1957Nights of Cabiria1957Shadows1960Judgment at Nuremberg1961Through a Glass Darkly1961Cape Fear1962High and Low1963The Silence1963A Fistful of Dollars1964A Hard Day's Night1964Becket1964Fail Safe1964The Killers1964For a Few Dollars More1965The Good, the Bad and the Ugly1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966In the Heat of the Night1967Faces1968The Lion in Winter1968The Thomas Crown Affair1968Get Carter1971Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972Cries and Whispers1972Last Tango in Paris1972The Exorcist1973A Woman Under the Influence1974The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974Opening Night1977Gloria1980Raging Bull1980The Long Good Friday1980Come and See1985The Fly1986City on Fire1987Full Metal Jacket1987My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown1989Jacob's Ladder1990Misery1990The Doors1991The Age of Innocence1993The Piano1993Once Were Warriors1994Three Colors: Red1994Dead Man Walking1995Sense and Sensibility1995Breaking the Waves1996Primal Fear1996Secrets & Lies1996Liar Liar1997Meet Joe Black1998Out of Sight1998Boys Don't Cry1999Julien Donkey-Boy1999Requiem for a Dream2000Elling2001Hannibal2001L.I.E.20018 Mile2002Punch-Drunk Love2002The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002To Be and to Have200221 Grams2003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Brothers2004Downfall2004Man on Fire2004Brokeback Mountain2005Capote2005Hustle & Flow2005Casino Royale2006Inland Empire2006The Last King of Scotland2006The Lives of Others200628 Weeks Later2007Frost/Nixon2008The King's Speech2010Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012The Master2012Whiplash2014Carol2015Ex Machina2015Far from the Madding Crowd2015Alien: Covenant2017Darkest Hour2017Get Out2017Molly's Game2017The Guilty2018Ad Astra2019Alita: Battle Angel2019Joker2019Saint Maud2020Longlegs2024Rebel Ridge2024The Substance2024Afternoons of Solitude2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025Marty Supreme2025Pillion2025Relay2025The Little Sister2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025