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.

349 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. Caligari1920Vampyr1932Swing Time1936The Great Dictator1940To Be or Not to Be1942Day of Wrath1943Dead of Night1945A Matter of Life and Death1946It's a Wonderful Life1946The Lady from Shanghai1947Criss Cross1949The Third Man1949All About Eve1950Rashomon1950Stage Fright1950Sunset Boulevard1950The Strange Ones1950Othello1951Ikiru1952Singin' in the Rain1952Johnny Guitar1954Diabolique1955Night of the Demon1957Pyaasa1957The Magician1958Touch of Evil1958Vertigo1958Anatomy of a Murder1959Imitation of Life1959Chronicle of a Summer1961The Innocents1961Lawrence of Arabia1962Lolita1962Salvatore Giuliano1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962The Manchurian Candidate1962The Trial1962Vivre Sa Vie19628½1963Billy Liar1963Charade1963Muriel, or the Time of Return1963Take It All1963The Spy Who Came In from the Cold1965Daisies1966Seconds1966The Battle of Algiers1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Belle de Jour1967Branded to Kill1967Titicut Follies1967Hour of the Wolf1968The Producers1968if....1968L'Amour fou1969Medium Cool1969Performance1970Valerie and Her Week of Wonders1970The Decameron1971Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory1971Aguirre, the Wrath of God1972Fata Morgana1972Pink Flamingos1972Roma1972The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie1972Amarcord1973Sisters1973The Sting1973The Wicker Man1973Touki Bouki1973Céline and Julie Go Boating1974The Conversation1974The Phantom of Liberty1974Female Trouble1976Grey Gardens1976Annie Hall1977Opening Night1977That Obscure Object of Desire1977The American Friend1977Hitler: A Film from Germany1978The Last Waltz1978All That Jazz1979Being There1979The Onion Field1979Kagemusha1980The Shining1980Mephisto1981Modern Romance1981My Dinner with Andre1981Possession1981Reds1981Blade Runner1982Fanny and Alexander1982The Draughtsman's Contract1982The Thing1982Born in Flames1983Sans Soleil1983Videodrome1983Zelig1983Amadeus1984Choose Me1984Nineteen Eighty-Four1984Once Upon a Time in America1984The Element of Crime1984This Is Spinal Tap1984Come and See1985Rendez-vous1985To Live and Die in L.A.1985Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer1986Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling1986She's Gotta Have It1986Sid and Nancy1986Angel Heart1987Broadcast News1987House of Games1987Repentance1987Dangerous Liaisons1988The Adventures of Baron Munchausen1988The Thin Blue Line1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988For All Mankind1989Close-Up1990Jacob's Ladder1990Miller's Crossing1990Total Recall1990Barton Fink1991Bugsy1991JFK1991Naked Lunch1991Paris Is Burning1991Prospero's Books1991Basic Instinct1992Lessons of Darkness1992Man Bites Dog1992Orlando1992The Player1992Naked1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Forrest Gump1994Satantango1994Three Colors: White1994Ghost in the Shell1995Nixon1995Richard III1995The Blade1995The Usual Suspects1995Twelve Monkeys1995Basquiat1996Breaking the Waves1996Fargo1996Irma Vep1996Mission: Impossible1996Primal Fear1996Swallowtail Butterfly1996Contact1997Donnie Brasco1997Face/Off1997Funny Games1997Insomnia1997Little 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 Gleaners and I2000The Virgin Suicides2000Unbreakable2000A.I. Artificial Intelligence2001Batang West Side2001Donnie Darko2001Hedwig and the Angry Inch2001Moulin Rouge!2001Mulholland Drive2001No Man's Land2001The Man Who Wasn't There200124 Hour Party People2002Adaptation.2002Catch Me If You Can2002Confessions of a Dangerous Mind2002Far from Heaven2002Hero2002Infernal Affairs2002Insomnia2002Millennium Actress2002The Kid Stays in the Picture2002A Tale of Two Sisters2003Code 462003Gozu2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Last Life in the Universe2003Mystic River2003Oldboy2003Runaway Jury2003Save the Green Planet!2003The Matrix Reloaded2003Zatoichi200320462004Birth2004Closer2004House 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 Ford2007Extraordinary Stories2008Mesrine: Killer Instinct2008Dogtooth2009Inglourious Basterds2009Moon2009Star Trek2009The White Ribbon2009Black Swan2010Certified Copy2010Inception2010Prince of Broadway2010TRON: Legacy2010The Social Network2010A Separation2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Source Code2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Argo2012Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012Life of Pi2012Post Tenebras Lux2012The Act of Killing2012The Hunt2012American Hustle2013Iron Man 32013New World2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013The Wolf of Wall Street2013Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)2014Creep2014Enemy2014Gone Girl2014Kill the Messenger2014Nightcrawler2014The Babadook2014The World of Kanako201445 Years2015Ex Machina2015Personal Shopper2016The Handmaiden2016The Wailing2016Toni Erdmann2016Visaranai2016Alien: Covenant2017Atomic Blonde2017Blade Runner 20492017Forgotten2017I, Tonya2017Memoir of a Murderer2017Star Wars: The Last Jedi2017The Death of Stalin2017The Greatest Showman2017BlacKkKlansman2018Burning2018Long Day's Journey Into Night2018Never Look Away2018Shadow2018Shoplifters2018Sorry to Bother You2018The Favourite2018Vice2018Honeyland2019Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood2019Spider-Man: Far From Home2019The Lighthouse2019Us2019Possessor2020Saint Maud2020Summer of 852020Petrov's Flu2021The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It2021The Hand of God2021The Power of the Dog2021Titane2021Kantara2022Moonage Daydream2022Operation Mincemeat2022The Fabelmans2022The Outfit2022TÁR2022Where the Crawdads Sing2022White Noise2022Anatomy of a Fall2023Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One2023Saltburn2023The Iron Claw2023Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Better Man2024Dune: Part Two2024Heretic2024Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes2024Late Night with the Devil2024After the Hunt2025Atropia2025Bugonia2025Hamnet2025It Was Just an Accident2025Mickey 172025Nouvelle Vague2025Resurrection2025Sentimental Value2025The Blue Trail2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025De Gaulle: Liberté2026Michael2026Obsession2026