Sightlines · a concept

mnemosign / image-souvenir

a localizable memory-image (flashback); still *indirect* time.

On screen: a dated flashback representing a former present.

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

Across the collection

The Phantom Carriage1921Rebecca1940How Green Was My Valley1941The Magnificent Ambersons1942Casablanca1943Brief Encounter1945Mildred Pierce1945Spellbound1945The Killers1946Black Narcissus1947Out of the Past1947Letter from an Unknown Woman1948A Lesson in Love1954Wild Strawberries1957Hiroshima Mon Amour1959Suddenly, Last Summer1959Shoot the Piano Player1960Harakiri1962La Jetée1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance1962To Kill a Mockingbird19628½1963This Sporting Life1963Becket1964Gertrud1964Marnie1964The Killers1964Chimes at Midnight1965Doctor Zhivago1965For a Few Dollars More1965The Pawnbroker1965In Cold Blood1967Once Upon a Time in the West1968Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid1969Midnight Cowboy1969Death in Venice1971Straw Dogs1971The Conformist1971The Go-Between1971Walkabout1971Don't Look Now1973Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore1974Equus1977The Last Waltz1978Ordinary People1980Raging Bull1980Blade Runner1982Missing1982Amadeus1984Out of Africa1985Stand by Me1986RoboCop1987The Last Emperor1987Chocolat1988Cinema Paradiso1988Rain Man1988Born on the Fourth of July1989My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown1989Edward Scissorhands1990Jacob's Ladder1990Indochine1992Reservoir Dogs1992Carlito's Way1993In the Line of Fire1993Strange Days1995Twelve Monkeys1995The English Patient1996The Funeral1996Titanic1997American History X1998Buffalo '661998Gods and Monsters1998Saving Private Ryan1998All About My Mother1999The Green Mile1999The Hurricane1999Toy Story 21999Almost Famous2000Beau Travail2000Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon2000Gladiator2000High Fidelity2000Joint Security Area2000Peppermint Candy2000The Virgin Suicides2000Blow2001Spy Game2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001Road to Perdition2002Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind2004The Bourne Supremacy2004The Machinist2004Batman Begins2005Brokeback Mountain2005Memoirs of a Geisha2005The Constant Gardener2005The Squid and the Whale2005Walk the Line2005Letters from Iwo Jima2006The Bourne Ultimatum2007Slumdog Millionaire2008Up2009Enter the Void2010True Grit2010J. Edgar2011The Iron Lady2011Looper2012Nameless Gangster2012Man of Steel2013Oblivion2013Pacific Rim2013Interstellar2014The Imitation Game201445 Years2015Arrival2016Finding Dory2016First Man2018The Trial of the Chicago 72020Small Things Like These2024Hamnet2025Twinless2025Project Hail Mary2026