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.

197 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 Arc1928Pandora's Box1929City Lights1931M1931Mädchen in Uniform1931Vampyr1932King Kong1933L'Atalante1934Holiday1938Mr. Smith Goes to Washington1939The Tale of the Fox1941Now, Voyager1942Day of Wrath1943To Have and Have Not1945Beauty and the Beast1946Gilda1946It's a Wonderful Life1946Notorious1946Black Narcissus1947Brighton Rock1948The Treasure of the Sierra Madre1948White Heat1949In a Lonely Place1950Winchester '731950A Place in the Sun1951Sudden Fear1952Pickup on South Street1953Shane1953Johnny Guitar1954On the Waterfront1954Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto1954East of Eden1955Rebel Without a Cause1955The Big Combo1955The Man Who Knew Too Much195612 Angry Men1957Nights of Cabiria1957Cairo Station1958Shadows1960Judgment at Nuremberg1961Through a Glass Darkly1961Cape Fear1962High and Low1963The Silence1963A Fistful of Dollars1964A Hard Day's Night1964Becket1964Charulata1964Fail Safe1964The Killers1964For a Few Dollars More1965The Good, the Bad and the Ugly1966War and Peace, Part II: Natasha Rostova1966Who'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 Friday1980Scanners1981Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982White Dog1982Come and See1985The Fly1986City on Fire1987Full Metal Jacket1987My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown1989Jacob's Ladder1990Misery1990La Belle Noiseuse1991The Doors1991Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me1992The 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.2001Read My Lips20018 Mile2002Punch-Drunk Love2002Spider-Man2002The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers2002To Be and to Have200221 Grams2003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Birth2004Brothers2004Downfall2004Man on Fire2004Brokeback Mountain2005Capote2005Hustle & Flow2005The Beat That My Heart Skipped2005Casino Royale2006Inland Empire2006The Last King of Scotland2006The Lives of Others200628 Weeks Later2007Frost/Nixon2008Twilight2008Alice in Wonderland2010Biutiful2010The King's Speech2010Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012The Master2012Stoker2013A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night2014Creep2014Phoenix2014The Way He Looks2014When Marnie Was There2014Whiplash2014Carol2015Ex Machina2015Far from the Madding Crowd2015Personal Shopper2016Silence2016The World of Us2016Alien: Covenant2017Beauty and the Beast2017Darkest Hour2017Get Out2017It2017Molly's Game2017The Shape of Water2017War for the Planet of the Apes2017A Star Is Born2018The Guilty2018The Rider2018To All the Boys I've Loved Before2018Tumbbad2018Ad Astra2019Alita: Battle Angel2019Five Feet Apart2019It Chapter Two2019Joker2019All the Bright Places2020Another Round2020Dinner in America2020Saint Maud2020Sound of Metal2020Jujutsu Kaisen 02021Elvis2022Kantara2022All of Us Strangers2023Perfect Days2023A Real Pain2024Better Man2024Challengers2024Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga2024Longlegs2024Rebel Ridge2024Smile 22024The Substance2024Transformers One2024Trap2024Afternoons of Solitude2025If I Had Legs I'd Kick You2025Marty Supreme2025Materialists2025Pillion2025Relay2025The Little Sister2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025People We Meet on Vacation2026Send Help2026Spider-Man: Brand New Day2026