Sightlines · a concept

icon of quality

affect as an expressed *quality*; the reflecting/contour face.

On screen: an immobile reflecting face expressing a single quality (wonder, contemplation).

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DThe Scarlet Empress1934

Across the collection

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari1920Häxan1922Nanook of the North1922Faust1926The Passion of Joan of Arc1928The Blue Angel1930City Lights1931Dishonored1931Frankenstein1931Tabu: A Story of the South Seas1931Shanghai Express1932Triumph of the Will1935The Grapes of Wrath1940The Philadelphia Story1940Now, Voyager1942Casablanca1943Day of Wrath1943Double Indemnity1944Gaslight1944Laura1944Brief Encounter1945Children of Paradise1945Spellbound1945Gilda1946The Postman Always Rings Twice1946Letter from an Unknown Woman1948A Streetcar Named Desire1951Europa '511952Moulin Rouge1952Tokyo Story1953La Strada1954Ordet1955Pather Panchali1955The Ladykillers1955The Night of the Hunter1955A Man Escaped1956Invasion of the Body Snatchers1956Nights of Cabiria1957Paths of Glory1957The Bridge on the River Kwai1957The Seventh Seal1957Throne of Blood1957Wild Strawberries1957Ashes and Diamonds1958Cat on a Hot Tin Roof1958Black Orpheus1959Eyes Without a Face1960Shoot the Piano Player1960The Devil's Eye1960The Virgin Spring1960Breakfast at Tiffany's1961Judgment at Nuremberg1961Through a Glass Darkly1961Jules and Jim1962La Jetée1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962Ride the High Country1962To Kill a Mockingbird1962Vivre Sa Vie1962The Silence1963Winter Light1963A Fistful of Dollars1964Fail Safe1964Gertrud1964Pale Flower1964Red Desert1964The Killers1964The Night of the Iguana1964The Umbrellas of Cherbourg1964Doctor Zhivago1965The Gospel According to St. Matthew1965Au Hasard Balthazar1966Come Drink with Me1966Persona1966The Good, the Bad and the Ugly1966The Sword of Doom1966Cool Hand Luke1967In Cold Blood1967Le Samouraï1967Mouchette1967Bullitt1968Rosemary's Baby1968Theorem1968The Color of Pomegranates1969Death in Venice1971Harold and Maude1971THX 11381971The Touch1971Cries and Whispers1972Enter the Dragon1973The Exorcist1973The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973Murder on the Orient Express1974Scenes from a Marriage1974The Night Porter1974Barry Lyndon1975One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest1975The Stepford Wives1975Carrie1976Midway1976Close Encounters of the Third Kind1977Opening Night1977Being There1979Nosferatu the Vampyre1979American Gigolo1980Ordinary People1980E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial1982Fanny and Alexander1982Educating Rita1983The Outsiders1983The Right Stuff1983Paris, Texas1984Ran1985The Breakfast Club1985The Color Purple1985A Room with a View1986Caravaggio1986Manhunter1986Mona Lisa1986She's Gotta Have It1986Stand by Me1986The Mission1986The Name of the Rose1986Babette's Feast1987Chocolat1988Mississippi Burning1988Rain Man1988The Last Temptation of Christ1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988Dead Poets Society1989The Killer1989Days of Being Wild1990Edward Scissorhands1990King of New York1990The Grifters1990The Hunt for Red October1990Once Upon a Time in China1991Raise the Red Lantern1991Terminator 2: Judgment Day1991The Double Life of Véronique1991The Silence of the Lambs1991Indochine1992Like Water for Chocolate1992Jurassic Park1993Shadowlands1993The Piano1993The Remains of the Day1993Three Colors: Blue1993What's Eating Gilbert Grape1993Chungking Express1994Eat Drink Man Woman1994Léon: The Professional1994The Postman1994Dead Man Walking1995Ghost in the Shell1995Kids1995Sense and Sensibility1995Independence Day1996The Funeral1996The Portrait of a Lady1996Contact1997Fireworks1997Good Will Hunting1997Jackie Brown1997The Fifth Element1997The Ice Storm1997Rushmore1998The Celebration1998The Idiots1998The Proposition1998Humanité1999October Sky1999Ratcatcher1999The Blair Witch Project1999The Green Mile1999The Insider1999The Talented Mr. Ripley1999Toy Story 21999Audition2000Before Night Falls2000Dancer in the Dark2000In the Mood for Love2000The Virgin Suicides2000A.I. Artificial Intelligence2001Amélie2001L.I.E.2001Millennium Mambo2001The Man Who Wasn't There2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001Infernal Affairs2002Morvern Callar2002Ripley's Game2002Road to Perdition2002Talk to Her2002The Gathering Storm2002The Ring2002To Be and to Have2002Girl with a Pearl Earring2003Kitchen Stories2003Lost in Translation2003Monster2003PTU2003Maria Full of Grace2004Vera Drake2004A Bittersweet Life2005King Kong2005Memoirs of a Geisha2005The New World2005Mission: Impossible III2006The Lives of Others2006The Queen2006Silent Light2007This Is England2007WALL·E2008Mother2009Outrage2010The Man from Nowhere2010Drive2011J. Edgar2011Once Upon a Time in Anatolia2011Amour2012Lincoln2012The Hunt2012Her2013Ida2013New World2013The Grandmaster2013Fury2014Godzilla2014John Wick2014Locke2014The Equalizer2014Under the Skin2014Carol2015Far from the Madding Crowd2015Son of Saul2015Hacksaw Ridge2016Manchester by the Sea2016Moonlight2016The Neon Demon2016Memoir of a Murderer2017A Quiet Place2018Black Panther2018First Man2018First Reformed2018Vice2018Ad Astra2019Alita: Battle Angel2019Beanpole2019Portrait of a Lady on Fire2019The Painted Bird2019Saint Maud2020No Time to Die2021Zack Snyder's Justice League2021EO2022The Banshees of Inisherin2022Killers of the Flower Moon2023Oppenheimer2023Saltburn2023Civil War2024Dune: Part Two2024Longlegs2024Nosferatu2024Rebel Ridge2024Small Things Like These2024The Order2024Woman of the Hour2024Frankenstein2025Hamnet2025La Grazia2025Sound of Falling2025The Ice Tower2025The Little Sister2025The Smashing Machine2025Twinless2025Urchin202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026Blue Heron2026Disclosure Day2026