Sightlines · a concept

puissances du faux

narration that abandons the form of the true; becoming over identity.

On screen: truth/falsity made undecidable as a creative principle.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DLast Year at Marienbad1961DCitizen Kane1941DF for Fake1973DInherent Vice2014DSynecdoche, New York2008

Across the collection

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1920Vampyr1932The Great Dictator1940Day of Wrath1943The Lady from Shanghai1947The Third Man1949All About Eve1950Rashomon1950Stage Fright1950Sunset Boulevard1950The Strange Ones1950Othello1951Ikiru1952Johnny Guitar1954Diabolique1955The Magician1958Touch of Evil1958Vertigo1958Anatomy of a Murder1959Chronicle of a Summer1961Lawrence of Arabia1962Lolita1962Salvatore Giuliano1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962The Manchurian Candidate1962The Trial1962Vivre Sa Vie19628½1963Billy Liar1963Charade1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963The Spy Who Came In from the Cold1965Seconds1966The Battle of Algiers1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Belle de Jour1967Branded to Kill1967Hour of the Wolf1968if....1968Medium Cool1969Performance1970Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972Fata Morgana1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972Amarcord1973The Sting1973The Wicker Man1973The Conversation1974Grey Gardens1976Annie Hall1977Opening Night1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977The American Friend1977The Last Waltz1978All That Jazz1979Being There1979The Onion Field1979Kagemusha1980The Shining1980Mephisto1981Possession1981Reds1981Blade Runner1982Fanny and Alexander1982The Draughtsman's Contract1982The Thing1982Sans Soleil1983Videodrome1983Zelig1983Amadeus1984Once Upon a Time in America1984This Is Spinal Tap1984Come and See1985Rendez-vous1985To Live and Die in L.A.1985Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986She's Gotta Have It1986Angel Heart1987Broadcast News1987House of Games1987Dangerous Liaisons1988The Thin Blue Line1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988For All Mankind1989Jacob's Ladder1990Miller's Crossing1990Total Recall1990Barton Fink1991Bugsy1991JFK1991Naked Lunch1991Prospero's Books1991Basic Instinct1992Lessons of Darkness1992Man Bites Dog1992The Player1992Naked1993Forrest Gump1994Satantango1994Ghost in the Shell1995Nixon1995Richard III1995The Usual Suspects1995Twelve Monkeys1995Breaking the Waves1996Fargo1996Irma Vep1996Mission: Impossible1996Primal Fear1996Contact1997Donnie Brasco1997Face/Off1997Funny Games1997Little Dieter Needs to Fly1997Lost Highway1997Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil1997Open Your Eyes1997Taste of Cherry1997The Game1997Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas1998Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon1998Ring1998The Idiots1998Velvet Goldmine1998After Life1999All About My Mother1999Election1999Eyes Wide Shut1999Fight Club1999Following1999Galaxy Quest1999My Best Fiend1999The Blair Witch Project1999The Talented Mr. Ripley1999eXistenZ1999American Psycho2000Before Night Falls2000Best in Show2000Memento2000Mission: Impossible II2000The Virgin Suicides2000Unbreakable2000A.I. Artificial Intelligence2001Donnie Darko2001Mulholland Drive2001No Man's Land2001The Man Who Wasn't There200124 Hour Party People2002Adaptation.2002Catch Me If You Can2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Far from Heaven2002Hero2002Infernal Affairs2002Insomnia2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002A Tale of Two Sisters2003Code 462003Gozu2003Last Life in the Universe2003Mystic River2003Oldboy2003Runaway Jury2003The Matrix Reloaded2003Zatoichi200320462004Closer2004House of Flying Daggers2004The Merchant of Venice2004A History of Violence2005Grizzly Man2005Lady Vengeance2005Munich200512:08 East of Bucharest2006Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006Inland Empire2006Pan's Labyrinth2006The Illusionist2006The Prestige2006Atonement2007I'm Not There2007Mad Detective2007The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007Mesrine: Killer Instinct2008Dogtooth2009Inglourious Basterds2009Moon2009Star Trek2009The White Ribbon2009Black Swan2010Certified Copy2010Inception2010The Social Network2010A Separation2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Source Code2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Argo2012Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012The Act of Killing2012The Hunt2012American Hustle2013New World2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Enemy2014Gone Girl2014Kill the Messenger2014Nightcrawler2014The Babadook2014The World of Kanako201445 Years2015Ex Machina2015The Handmaiden2016The Wailing2016Toni Erdmann2016Alien: Covenant2017Atomic Blonde2017Blade Runner 20492017Forgotten2017I, Tonya2017Memoir of a Murderer2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi2017The Death of Stalin2017BlacKkKlansman2018Burning2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Shadow2018Shoplifters2018Sorry to Bother You2018The Favourite2018Vice2018Honeyland2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019The Lighthouse2019Us2019Possessor2020Saint Maud2020Petrov's Flu2021The Power of the Dog2021Titane2021Operation Mincemeat2022The Outfit2022TÁR2022Anatomy of a Fall2023Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One2023Saltburn2023Dune: Part Two2024Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes2024After the Hunt2025Atropia2025Bugonia2025Hamnet2025It Was Just an Accident2025Mickey 172025Nouvelle Vague2025Resurrection2025Sentimental Value2025The Blue Trail2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025