Sightlines · a concept

weak links

events connect by chance or not at all.

On screen: slackened causality, elliptical cuts.

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

Across the collection

Toni1935Rome, Open City1945Paisan1946The Best Years of Our Lives1946The Big Sleep1946Bicycle Thieves1948I Vitelloni1953Pather Panchali1955The 400 Blows1959Breathless1960La Dolce Vita1960Shadows1960Shoot the Piano Player1960A Taste of Honey1961A Kind of Loving1962Salvatore Giuliano1962Muriel, or the Time of Return1963A Hard Day's Night1964Band of Outsiders1964Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964Pale Flower1964Alfie1966Masculin Féminin1966Bonnie and Clyde1967Weekend1967The Party1968Easy Rider1969Satyricon1969Five Easy Pieces1970M*A*S*H1970Tora! Tora! Tora!1970McCabe & Mrs. Miller1971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Amarcord1973American Graffiti1973Mean Streets1973Serpico1973The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973The Long Goodbye1973Nashville1975All the President's Men1976Marathon Man1976A Bridge Too Far1977Heaven's Gate1980My Life as a Dog1985Down by Law1986Hope and Glory1987Colors1988Days of Being Wild1990Slacker1990Dazed and Confused1993Schindler's List1993Short Cuts1993Chungking Express1994Fallen Angels1995The End of Violence1997The Ice Storm1997Happiness1998Ratcatcher1999Amores Perros2000Code Unknown2000Songs from the Second Floor2000Traffic2000Gosford Park2001Bloody Sunday2002Igby Goes Down2002Carandiru2003Intermission2003Laurel Canyon2003Noi the Albino2003PTU2003Napoleon Dynamite2004Ocean's Twelve2004Brokeback Mountain2005Syriana2005Babel2006Gomorrah2008Contagion2011Playing for Keeps2012Inherent Vice2014The Square2017Cold War2018Don't Look Up2021Licorice Pizza2021Woman of the Hour2024A House of Dynamite2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025One Battle After Another2025Blue Heron2026