Sightlines · a concept

weak links

events connect by chance or not at all.

On screen: slackened causality, elliptical cuts.

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

Across the collection

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate1923Toni1935Rome, Open City1945Paisan1946The Best Years of Our Lives1946The Big Sleep1946Bicycle Thieves1948I Vitelloni1953Monsieur Hulot's Holiday1953Pather Panchali1955The 400 Blows1959Breathless1960Cruel Story of Youth1960La Dolce Vita1960Shadows1960Shoot the Piano Player1960When a Woman Ascends the Stairs1960A 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 Flower1964São Paulo, Incorporated1965Alfie1966Masculin Féminin1966The Brick and the Mirror1966Bonnie and Clyde1967Weekend1967Stolen Kisses1968The Party1968The Swimmer1968Easy Rider1969Invasion1969Satyricon1969Five Easy Pieces1970M*A*S*H1970Tora! Tora! Tora!1970McCabe & Mrs. Miller1971Murmur of the Heart1971Two-Lane Blacktop1971Roma1972Amarcord1973American Graffiti1973Mean Streets1973Serpico1973Soleil O1973The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973The Long Goodbye1973The Phantom of Liberty1974Nashville1975Shampoo1975All the President's Men1976Marathon Man1976A Bridge Too Far1977Kummatty1979Heaven's Gate1980Fast Times at Ridgemont High1982Local Hero1983Sugar Cane Alley1983Testament1983The Big Chill1983After Hours1985My Life as a Dog1985Vagabond1985Down by Law1986Something Wild1986Hope and Glory1987Colors1988Days of Being Wild1990Slacker1990A Brighter Summer Day1991Dazed and Confused1993Schindler's List1993Short Cuts1993Chungking Express1994Drunken Master III1994Rebels of the Neon God1994Fallen Angels1995Kicking and Screaming1995Basquiat1996The End of Violence1997The Ice Storm1997Happiness1998The Last Days of Disco1998Ratcatcher1999Topsy-Turvy1999Amores Perros2000Code Unknown2000Songs from the Second Floor2000Traffic2000Yi Yi2000You Can Count on Me2000Gosford Park2001La Ciénaga2001Bloody Sunday2002Igby Goes Down2002Carandiru2003Intermission2003Laurel Canyon2003Noi the Albino2003PTU2003Evolution of a Filipino Family2004Napoleon Dynamite2004Ocean's Twelve2004Brokeback Mountain2005Me and You and Everyone We Know2005Syriana2005Babel2006Extraordinary Stories2008Gomorrah2008The Headless Woman2008Contagion2011Beyond the Hills2012Playing for Keeps2012Frances Ha2013Nebraska2013Boyhood2014From What Is Before2014Inherent Vice2014Certain Women2016The Other Side of Hope2017The Square2017Cold War2018Marona's Fantastic Tale2020Don't Look Up2021Licorice Pizza2021Woman of the Hour2024A House of Dynamite2025Father Mother Sister Brother2025One Battle After Another2025Blue Heron2026