Sightlines · a concept

order of time / coexistence

coexisting regions of the past (Bergson's cone); non-chronological leaps.

On screen: the past as an order one moves through non-linearly (not a dated flashback).

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DHiroshima Mon Amour1959

Across the collection

The Phantom Carriage1921The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp1943A Canterbury Tale1944The Killers1946Lola Montès1955Night and Fog1956Wild Strawberries1957Jules and Jim1962Long Day's Journey Into Night1962Salvatore Giuliano1962São Paulo, Incorporated1965The Pawnbroker1965A Man and a Woman1966Wavelength1967Petulia1968Catch-221970The Conformist1971The Go-Between1971Roma1972Slaughterhouse-Five1972Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid1973Sisters1973Lenny1974The Godfather Part II1974Mirror1975The Travelling Players1975Annie Hall1977Ballad of Tara1979The Shining1980Time Bandits1981Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence1983Nostalgia1983Sans Soleil1983The Big Chill1983Once Upon a Time in America1984The Element of Crime1984Caravaggio1986Jo Jo Dancer, Your Life Is Calling1986Repentance1987The Dead1987The Last Emperor1987Distant Voices, Still Lives1988Grave of the Fireflies1988Daughters of the Dust1991Only Yesterday1991Porco Rosso1992Sankofa1993The Remains of the Day1993Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould1993Exotica1994Nixon1995Lone Star1996Shine1996The Funeral1996Happy Together1997Out of Sight1998Buena Vista Social Club1999The Limey1999Titus1999Peppermint Candy2000Batang West Side2001Millennium Mambo2001The Devil's Backbone2001City of God2002Millennium Actress2002Russian Ark200220462004Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Che: Part Two2008Still Walking2008(500) Days of Summer2009A Single Man2009Enter the Void2010Inception2010Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives2010From Up on Poppy Hill2011Pina2011The Iron Lady2011The Tree of Life2011Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy2011We Need to Talk About Kevin2011Sinister2012Wolf Children2012Before Midnight2013The Grandmaster2013The Great Beauty2013Clouds of Sils Maria2014Interstellar2014When Marnie Was There2014Cemetery of Splendor2015Dheepan2015Kubo and the Two Strings2016Manchester by the Sea2016Moonlight2016The Other Side of Hope2017It Chapter Two2019La Flor2019The Irishman2019Last and First Men2020Marona's Fantastic Tale2020Fear Street: 19782021Fear Street: 19942021Last Night in Soho2021Memoria2021Petite Maman2021Petrov's Flu2021Aftersun2022Barbarian2022Incantation2022Moonage Daydream2022Suzume2022The Black Phone2022All of Us Strangers2023Soulmate2023The Boy and the Heron202318x2 Beyond Youthful Days2024Beetlejuice Beetlejuice2024Challengers2024Small Things Like These2024We Live in Time2024Dracula2025Final Destination Bloodlines2025Pompei: Below the Clouds2025Resurrection2025Sentimental Value2025Sinners2025Sound of Falling2025The Conjuring: Last Rites2025Thunderbolts*2025Train Dreams2025In Waves2026People We Meet on Vacation2026Silent Friend2026