Sightlines · a concept

symbol

an object bearing an abstract relation / the law of the whole.

On screen: an object condensing the film's organizing relation.

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

Deleuze’s own examples

DNotorious1946DThe 39 Steps1935DNorth by Northwest1959

Across the collection

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages1916The Last Laugh1924M1931Scarface1932Trouble in Paradise1932It Happened One Night1934Grand Illusion1937The Awful Truth1937Foreign Correspondent1940Rebecca1940The Philadelphia Story1940The Little Foxes1941The Maltese Falcon1941Now, Voyager1942The Magnificent Ambersons1942Shadow of a Doubt1943Double Indemnity1944Gaslight1944Shoeshine1946The Stranger1946Out of the Past1947Rope1948Adam's Rib1949La Ronde1950Orpheus1950Ace in the Hole1951Strangers on a Train1951High Noon1952Sudden Fear1952From Here to Eternity1953Roman Holiday1953The Earrings of Madame de...1953Dial M for Murder1954Rear Window1954All That Heaven Allows1955The Night of the Hunter1955To Catch a Thief1955The Man Who Knew Too Much1956The Searchers1956Paths of Glory1957The Bridge on the River Kwai1957Ashes and Diamonds1958Vertigo1958The Apartment1960Breakfast at Tiffany's1961Sanjuro1962Hud1963The Birds1963The Servant1963Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964Gertrud1964The Night of the Iguana1964Doctor Zhivago1965For a Few Dollars More1965Once Upon a Time in the West1968The Swimming Pool1969Dirty Harry1971Straw Dogs1971The Touch1971The Godfather1972Murder on the Orient Express1974Dressed to Kill1980Absence of Malice1981Blow Out1981Educating Rita1983L'Argent1983Scarface1983The Right Stuff1983A Room with a View1986The Name of the Rose1986The Belly of an Architect1987Colors1988Mississippi Burning1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988The Vanishing1988Decalogue I1989Do the Right Thing1989Sweetie1989The Killer1989Miller's Crossing1990Howards End1992Jamon Jamon1992My Cousin Vinny1992The Piano1993Forrest Gump1994Léon: The Professional1994Once Were Warriors1994The Madness of King George1994Clockers1995Dead Man Walking1995Get Shorty1995La Cérémonie1995La Haine1995The Arrival1996The Game1997The Ice Storm1997Godzilla1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels1998Ronin1998Velvet Goldmine1998Dogma1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Magnolia1999October Sky1999The Cider House Rules1999Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon2000Hannibal2001Intacto2001L.I.E.200125th Hour2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Signs2002The Hours2002Mystic River2003Layer Cake2004Batman Begins2005Brokeback Mountain2005Lord of War2005The Constant Gardener2005The Squid and the Whale2005Babel2006The Departed2006The Lives of Others2006The Queen20063:10 to Yuma2007No Country for Old Men2007Burn After Reading2008In Bruges2008Iron Man2008Antichrist2009Fish Tank2009Up2009Iron Man 22010Drive2011Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012Killing Them Softly2012Skyfall2012Elysium2013Prisoners2013The Imitation Game2014Jurassic World2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens2015The Hateful Eight2015Steel Rain2017The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017The Post2017The Square2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017Cold War2018Avengers: Endgame2019Knives Out2019Crisis2021Don't Look Up2021The King's Man2021The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023September 52024The Seed of the Sacred Fig2024Black Bag2025Twinless2025Yes2025