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.

255 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 Ages1916A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate1923La Roue1923The Last Laugh1924M1931Scarface1932Trouble in Paradise1932The Testament of Dr. Mabuse1933It Happened One Night1934My Man Godfrey1936Swing Time1936Grand Illusion1937The Awful Truth1937The Adventures of Robin Hood1938The Lady Vanishes1938Only Angels Have Wings1939Foreign Correspondent1940Rebecca1940The Philadelphia Story1940The Thief of Bagdad194049th Parallel1941High Sierra1941The Little Foxes1941The Maltese Falcon1941Now, Voyager1942The Magnificent Ambersons1942Shadow of a Doubt1943Double Indemnity1944Gaslight1944I Know Where I'm Going!1945Beauty and the Beast1946Great Expectations1946Shoeshine1946The Stranger1946Out of the Past1947Brighton Rock1948Rope1948The Fallen Idol1948Adam's Rib1949Kind Hearts and Coronets1949La Ronde1950Orpheus1950Wagon Master1950Winchester '731950Ace 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 Glory1957Rio, Northern Zone1957The Bridge on the River Kwai1957Ashes and Diamonds1958Mon Oncle1958Vertigo1958Knights of the Teutonic Order1960The Apartment1960Breakfast at Tiffany's1961El Cid1961One-Eyed Jacks1961Sanjuro1962Hud1963Lord of the Flies1963The Birds1963The Servant1963Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964Gertrud1964The Night of the Iguana1964Doctor Zhivago1965For a Few Dollars More1965São Paulo, Incorporated1965Once Upon a Time in the West1968The Swimming Pool1969Dirty Harry1971Murmur of the Heart1971Straw Dogs1971The Touch1971The Godfather1972Murder on the Orient Express1974Hitler: A Film from Germany1978The 36th Chamber of Shaolin1978Dressed to Kill1980The Last Metro1980Absence of Malice1981Blow Out1981Scanners1981Educating Rita1983L'Argent1983Scarface1983The Right Stuff1983A Room with a View1986The Green Ray1986The Name of the Rose1986The Belly of an Architect1987Colors1988Hairspray1988Mississippi Burning1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988The Vanishing1988Decalogue I1989Do the Right Thing1989Godzilla vs. Biollante1989Sweetie1989The Killer1989Miller's Crossing1990Howards End1992Jamon Jamon1992My Cousin Vinny1992The Crying Game1992The Piano1993Drunken Master III1994Exotica1994Forrest Gump1994Léon: The Professional1994Once Were Warriors1994Rebels of the Neon God1994The Madness of King George1994Clockers1995Dead Man Walking1995Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge1995Get Shorty1995La Cérémonie1995La Haine1995Swallowtail Butterfly1996The Arrival1996The Rock1996The Game1997The Ice Storm1997Godzilla1998Last Night1998Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels1998Ronin1998Velvet Goldmine1998Dogma1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Magnolia1999October Sky1999The Cider House Rules1999Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon2000Hannibal2001Intacto2001L.I.E.200125th Hour2002Rabbit-Proof Fence2002Signs2002Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones2002The Hours2002Mystic River2003Layer Cake2004Batman Begins2005Brokeback Mountain2005Lord of War2005The Constant Gardener2005The Squid and the Whale2005Babel2006The Departed2006The Lives of Others2006The Queen20063:10 to Yuma2007No Country for Old Men2007The Darjeeling Limited2007Burn After Reading2008In Bruges2008Iron Man2008Antichrist2009Fish Tank2009The Lovely Bones2009The Secret of Kells2009Up2009Flipped2010Iron Man 22010Tiny Furniture2010Drive2011House of Pleasures2011Real Steel2011Rise of the Planet of the Apes2011The Kid with a Bike2011Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012Killing Them Softly2012Skyfall2012The Cabin in the Woods2012Elysium2013Evil Dead2013Prisoners2013Tangerines2013The Secret Life of Walter Mitty2013Guardians of the Galaxy2014Leviathan2014The Amazing Spider-Man 22014The Fault in Our Stars2014The Imitation Game2014Dheepan2015Jurassic World2015Star Wars: The Force Awakens2015The Hateful Eight2015Kubo and the Two Strings2016Silence2016The World of Us2016Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 22017Steel Rain2017The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017The Post2017The Shape of Water2017The Square2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017Cold War2018I Want to Eat Your Pancreas2018Avengers: Endgame2019Five Feet Apart2019Knives Out2019Black Widow2021Crisis2021Don't Look Up2021Jujutsu Kaisen 02021Luca2021The King's Man2021Bullet Train2022Kantara2022Suzume2022Anyone but You2023No Hard Feelings2023Red, White & Royal Blue2023Scream VI2023Soulmate2023The Boy and the Heron2023The Pig, the Snake and the Pigeon2023The Super Mario Bros. Movie2023Wonka2023Drawing Closer2024September 52024The Seed of the Sacred Fig2024Transformers One2024A Minecraft Movie2025Black Bag2025Companion2025Materialists2025The Conjuring: Last Rites2025The Ugly Stepsister2025Twinless2025Yes2025Zootopia 22025The Devil Wears Prada 22026