Sightlines · a concept

the mental-image

relations themselves are the object; the spectator is folded in to assemble them.

On screen: meaning built from relations the viewer holds; the audience as a knowing third.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DThe Man Who Knew Too Much1956DNotorious1946DRear Window1954DThe Birds1963DVertigo1958DThe 39 Steps1935DNorth by Northwest1959

Across the collection

Spies1928City Lights1931M1931Trouble in Paradise1932Grand Illusion1937The Awful Truth1937Foreign Correspondent1940Rebecca1940The Philadelphia Story1940The Little Foxes1941The Maltese Falcon1941Shadow of a Doubt1943Double Indemnity1944Gaslight1944Spellbound1945The Best Years of Our Lives1946The Big Sleep1946The Stranger1946Rope1948Adam's Rib1949All About Eve1950La Ronde1950Stage Fright1950Ace in the Hole1951Strangers on a Train1951High Noon1952Sudden Fear1952Dial M for Murder1954To Catch a Thief195512 Angry Men1957Paths of Glory1957Witness for the Prosecution1957Ashes and Diamonds1958Touch of Evil1958Some Like It Hot1959The Apartment1960The Devil's Eye1960Judgment at Nuremberg1961Knife in the Water1962Le Doulos1962The Manchurian Candidate1962The Pink Panther1963Marnie1964Seven Days in May1964The Killers1964Alfie1966Rosemary's Baby1968The Lion in Winter1968The Thomas Crown Affair1968Medium Cool1969The Swimming Pool1969Tora! Tora! Tora!1970The Andromeda Strain1971Frenzy1972Sleuth1972State of Siege1972The Day of the Jackal1973The Wicker Man1973Murder on the Orient Express1974The Conversation1974The Parallax View1974Night Moves1975Three Days of the Condor1975All the President's Men1976Carrie1976Marathon Man1976Midway1976Network1976High Anxiety1977Halloween1978Being There1979Life of Brian1979The China Syndrome1979Dressed to Kill1980Absence of Malice1981Blow Out1981Body Heat1981The Draughtsman's Contract1982The Thing1982Body Double1984A Zed & Two Noughts1985Blood Simple1985Mona Lisa1986The Name of the Rose1986House of Games1987Dangerous Liaisons1988The Thin Blue Line1988The Vanishing1988The Killer1989Miller's Crossing1990Misery1990The Hunt for Red October1990The Silence of the Lambs1991A Few Good Men1992Howards End1992Man Bites Dog1992My Cousin Vinny1992Reservoir Dogs1992The Player1992In the Line of Fire1993Jurassic Park1993Short Cuts1993The Fugitive1993Clear and Present Danger1994Natural Born Killers1994Pulp Fiction1994Three Colors: Red1994Clockers1995Crimson Tide1995Get Shorty1995Heat1995Kids1995Outbreak1995Richard III1995Se7en1995Sense and Sensibility1995Mission: Impossible1996Primal Fear1996The Arrival1996Absolute Power1997Face/Off1997Four Days in September1997Funny Games1997Hard Eight1997Starship Troopers1997Enemy of the State1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels1998Ring1998The Negotiator1998The Proposition1998The Truman Show1998Dogma1999Following1999Go1999Magnolia1999One Day in September1999The Cider House Rules1999The Thomas Crown Affair1999Best in Show2000High Fidelity2000Snatch2000Unbreakable2000Bridget Jones's Diary2001Gosford Park2001Jurassic Park III2001Spy Game2001Bowling for Columbine2002Catch Me If You Can2002Infernal Affairs2002Ripley's Game2002Signs2002Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance2002The Sum of All Fears2002Identity2003Infernal Affairs II2003Intermission2003Runaway Jury2003Closer2004I, Robot2004The Good Shepherd2004Good Night, and Good Luck.2005Syriana2005Babel2006Déjà Vu2006Inside Man2006Pan's Labyrinth2006The Departed2006The Lives of Others2006The Queen20063:10 to Yuma2007Ocean's Thirteen2007Burn After Reading2008Frost/Nixon2008Funny Games2008Mesrine: Public Enemy #12008Slumdog Millionaire2008The Baader Meinhof Complex2008The Dark Knight2008Iron Man 22010The Social Network2010The Town2010Contagion2011Headhunters2011Margin Call2011The Adjustment Bureau2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011Argo2012Confession of Murder2012Jack Reacher2012Lincoln2012Nameless Gangster2012Safe House2012The Bourne Legacy2012The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey2012The Hunt2012The Berlin File2013World War Z2013A Hard Day2014Captain America: The Winter Soldier2014Interstellar2014Eye in the Sky2015Spectre2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens2015Steve Jobs2015The Big Short2015The Hateful Eight2015Creepy2016Deadpool2016Jason Bourne2016Murder on the Orient Express2017BlacKkKlansman2018The Guilty2018Avengers: Endgame2019Knives Out2019Beasts Clawing at Straws2020The Man Standing Next2020The Trial of the Chicago 72020Crisis2021Don't Look Up2021Nope2022The Batman2022The Outfit2022Luther: The Fallen Sun2023Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One2023Past Lives2023To Catch a Killer2023Conclave2024September 52024Woman of the Hour2024A House of Dynamite2025After the Hunt2025Black Bag2025Relay2025The Secret Agent2025Twinless2025Disclosure Day2026