Sightlines · a concept

the gest

the bodily/theatrical making-visible of relations (Brecht's gestus).

On screen: a posture/attitude that exposes a social or theatrical relation.

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

Across the collection

The Last Laugh1924Grand Illusion1937The Awful Truth1937The Great Dictator1940The Little Foxes1941Now, Voyager1942Children of Paradise1945The Best Years of Our Lives1946Stage Fright1950Sunset Boulevard1950Ikiru1952Roman Holiday1953On the Waterfront1954Lola Montès195512 Angry Men19573:10 to Yuma1957Sweet Smell of Success1957Throne of Blood1957The Hidden Fortress1958Touch of Evil1958Look Back in Anger1959Pickpocket1959Some Like It Hot1959Breathless1960Shadows1960The Virgin Spring1960Harakiri1962Sanjuro1962The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner1962Contempt1963The Pink Panther1963This Sporting Life1963Winter Light1963Band of Outsiders1964Becket1964Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964The Night of the Iguana1964Woman in the Dunes1964The Hill1965The Ipcress File1965Au Hasard Balthazar1966King of Hearts1966The Battle of Algiers1966Tokyo Drifter1966Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?1966Cool Hand Luke1967La Chinoise1967Le Samouraï1967Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach1968Faces1968Oliver!1968The Party1968Theorem1968Midnight Cowboy1969The Color of Pomegranates1969They Shoot Horses, Don't They?1969El Topo1970Five Easy Pieces1970Kes1970Le Cercle Rouge1970A Clockwork Orange1971Bleak Moments1971Carnal Knowledge1971Harold and Maude1971Land of Silence and Darkness1971Shaft1971Walkabout1971Last Tango in Paris1972Silent Running1972Sleuth1972The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant1972O Lucky Man!1973Serpico1973The Sting1973A Woman Under the Influence1974Badlands1974The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser1974Barry Lyndon1975The Stepford Wives1975Grey Gardens1976Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom1976The Killing of a Chinese Bookie19763 Women1977Stroszek1977Autumn Sonata1978The Deer Hunter1978All That Jazz1979Kramer vs. Kramer1979The Tin Drum1979Woyzeck1979American Gigolo1980Kagemusha1980Pixote1980The Elephant Man1980Gallipoli1981Mephisto1981L'Argent1983Tampopo1985A Better Tomorrow1986A Room with a View1986The Mission1986Babette's Feast1987City on Fire1987RoboCop1987Wings of Desire1987Withnail & I1987Chocolat1988Landscape in the Mist1988The Unbearable Lightness of Being1988Born on the Fourth of July1989Dead Poets Society1989Do the Right Thing1989Santa Sangre1989The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover1989Life Is Sweet1991Raise the Red Lantern1991Shadowlands1993Short Cuts1993The Age of Innocence1993The Piano1993What's Eating Gilbert Grape1993The Postman1994La Haine1995Richard III1995Safe1995Jerry Maguire1996La Promesse1996Secrets & Lies1996Shine1996Sling Blade1996Face/Off1997Fireworks1997Four Days in September1997Good Will Hunting1997The Full Monty1997Buffalo '661998The Big Lebowski1998The Celebration1998The Idiots1998All About My Mother1999Being John Malkovich1999Boys Don't Cry1999Election1999Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999Kikujiro1999Rosetta1999The Green Mile1999American Psycho2000Beau Travail2000Best in Show2000Billy Elliot2000Code Unknown2000In the Mood for Love2000Mission: Impossible II2000Songs from the Second Floor2000Gosford Park2001No Man's Land2001The Royal Tenenbaums2001Bowling for Columbine2002Bus 1742002Far from Heaven2002The Bourne Identity2002Dogville2003Girl with a Pearl Earring2003House of Sand and Fog2003Kill Bill: Vol. 12003PTU2003Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring2003Touching the Void2003Collateral2004Maria Full of Grace2004Napoleon Dynamite2004The Hidden Blade2004The Merchant of Venice2004Vera Drake2004A History of Violence2005Grizzly Man2005Lady Vengeance2005The Death of Mr. Lazarescu2005The Squid and the Whale2005Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan2006Little Miss Sunshine2006The Host20064 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days2007American Gangster2007I Am Legend2007Michael Clayton2007Shooter2007Quantum of Solace2008Still Walking2008Summer Hours2008The Hurt Locker2008The Wrestler2008Tokyo Sonata2008WALL·E2008Dogtooth2009Fish Tank200913 Assassins2010Outrage2010Drive2011J. Edgar2011Shame2011Confession of Murder2012Django Unchained2012Killing Them Softly2012Lincoln2012Nameless Gangster2012The Act of Killing2012The Master2012Lone Survivor2013Only God Forgives2013Snowpiercer2013The Hunger Games: Catching Fire2013A Most Violent Year2014A Most Wanted Man2014A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence2014Force Majeure2014Gone Girl2014Far from the Madding Crowd2015Kingsman: The Secret Service2015The Assassin2015The Lobster2015Moonlight2016Toni Erdmann2016Hostiles2017Phantom Thread2017The Killing of a Sacred Deer2017The Square2017Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri2017Wind River2017Black Panther2018Roma2018Shadow2018Shoplifters2018Sorry to Bother You2018Honeyland2019Joker2019Us2019The Man Standing Next2020The Trial of the Chicago 72020Nobody2021Titane2021The Outfit2022Triangle of Sadness2022Dream Scenario2023Saltburn2023The Zone of Interest2023Anora2024Small Things Like These2024Woman of the Hour202428 Years Later2025Black Bag2025Blue Moon2025Cactus Pears2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025It Was Just an Accident2025Kontinental '252025Magellan2025Mickey 172025Pillion2025The Little Sister2025The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo2025The Testament of Ann Lee2025Two Prosecutors2025Yes202528 Years Later: The Bone Temple2026