Sightlines · a concept

acte de parole

speech as autonomous act (telling/fabulation/testimony).

On screen: a "legending" or testimonial voice, not dialogue.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DChronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968

Across the collection

The Ox-Bow Incident1943A Canterbury Tale1944Ordet1955Chronicle of a Summer1961The House Is Black1963The Secret Formula1965The Color of Pomegranates1969Pink Flamingos1972Soleil O1973The Mother and the Whore1973Lenny1974Nashville1975The Travelling Players1975Hitler: A Film from Germany1978Ballad of Tara1979Kummatty1979The Gods Must Be Crazy1980My Dinner with Andre1981Reds1981Sans Soleil1983Sugar Cane Alley1983Shoah1985The Breakfast Club1985Au Revoir les Enfants1987Good Morning, Vietnam1987Landscape Suicide1987Wings of Desire1987Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser1988Dead Poets Society1989Night on Earth1991Prospero's Books1991Bram Stoker's Dracula1992Blue1993Sankofa1993To Die For1995Basquiat1996Sling Blade1996Waiting for Guffman1997After Life1999Ride with the Devil1999Before Night Falls2000Yi Yi2000A.I. Artificial Intelligence2001Y Tu Mamá También2001Hukkle2002Dogville2003La Commune (Paris, 1871)2003Million Dollar Baby2004Letters from Iwo Jima2006The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford2007Extraordinary Stories2008Martyrs2008True Grit2010Pina2011The Tree of Life2011The Turin Horse2011Life of Pi2012Moonrise Kingdom2012Mudbound2017Official Secrets2019Last and First Men2020Marona's Fantastic Tale2020One Night in Miami...2020Summer of 852020Fear Street: 19782021The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun2021tick, tick... BOOM!2021Argentina 19852022Moonage Daydream2022The Black Phone2022A Real Pain2024Late Night with the Devil202428 Years Later2025Final Destination Bloodlines2025Frankenstein2025Peter Hujar's Day2025Train Dreams2025De Gaulle: Liberté2026