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
Toni1935
Rome, Open City1945
Paisan1946
The Best Years of Our Lives1946
The Big Sleep1946
Bicycle Thieves1948
I Vitelloni1953
Pather Panchali1955
The 400 Blows1959
Breathless1960
La Dolce Vita1960
Shadows1960
Shoot the Piano Player1960
A Taste of Honey1961
A Kind of Loving1962
Salvatore Giuliano1962
Muriel, or the Time of Return1963
A Hard Day's Night1964
Band of Outsiders1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb1964
Pale Flower1964
Alfie1966
Masculin Féminin1966
Bonnie and Clyde1967
Weekend1967
The Party1968
Easy Rider1969
Satyricon1969
Five Easy Pieces1970
M*A*S*H1970
Tora! Tora! Tora!1970
McCabe & Mrs. Miller1971
Two-Lane Blacktop1971
Amarcord1973
American Graffiti1973
Mean Streets1973
Serpico1973
The Friends of Eddie Coyle1973
The Long Goodbye1973
Nashville1975
All the President's Men1976
Marathon Man1976
A Bridge Too Far1977
Heaven's Gate1980
My Life as a Dog1985
Down by Law1986
Hope and Glory1987
Colors1988
Days of Being Wild1990
Slacker1990
Dazed and Confused1993
Schindler's List1993
Short Cuts1993
Chungking Express1994
Fallen Angels1995
The End of Violence1997
The Ice Storm1997
Happiness1998
Ratcatcher1999
Amores Perros2000
Code Unknown2000
Songs from the Second Floor2000
Traffic2000
Gosford Park2001
Bloody Sunday2002
Igby Goes Down2002
Carandiru2003
Intermission2003
Laurel Canyon2003
Noi the Albino2003
PTU2003
Napoleon Dynamite2004
Ocean's Twelve2004
Brokeback Mountain2005
Syriana2005
Babel2006
Gomorrah2008
Contagion2011
Playing for Keeps2012
Inherent Vice2014
The Square2017
Cold War2018
Don't Look Up2021
Licorice Pizza2021
Woman of the Hour2024
A House of Dynamite2025
Father Mother Sister Brother2025
One Battle After Another2025
Blue Heron2026