New Serge Daney translation: The Devil, Master of the Screenplay. "Instead of occasionally interrupting Beauty and the Devil with TV adverts, it would be better to interrupt an hour and a half of adverts with a few great moments of Michel Simon." sergedaney.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

Serge Daney alert: the same mistakes, again and again... Arte new series "Les saisons" prop: "a real [Libération] from that time, a collector’s piece with tattered pages and yellowed paper". #decorative #academism #quality #studio #occupation sergedaney.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-...

New Serge Daney translation: The Diagonale Archipelago. From the 2nd issue of new quarterly film magazine Narrow Margin. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

A few days late, annual round up of Serge Daney news. Happy new year everyone. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2026/01/serg...

Ad for Daney's book in Cahiers (443/444): 'Behind this pathetic title is a collection of texts for Libération. The author follows a thread from cinema to television and to news. From "Ghosts of Permanence" (films on TV) to a visual appraisal of the "Gulf War". Reasonable? It's written and readable.'

10/25/72: Jean-Pierre Melville's last, Un Flic w/Delon, Deneuve, Crenna ++ Opening sequence remains unsurpassed More: @akareynolds.bsky.social: spectrumculture.com/2019/05/01/c... @simonsaybrams.bsky.social: www.villagevoice.com/un-flic-jean... Serge Daney: sergedaney.blogspot.com/2017/08/cop-...

Four new translations of Serge Daney: his writings on the TV coverage of the 1989 Romanian revolution. 1/4 - Freeze-Images (Libération, 25 Dec 1989) sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/10/roma...

New Serge Daney translation from 1983 Cannes: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Destination Moon… or not! sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/09/jean...

Chantal Ackerman @filmcomment.com.web.brid.gy + MUBI + 4Columns, new Serge Daney translations @laurentktz.bsky.social, new @filmquarterly.bsky.social, villains @thebaffler.com, MEGADOC @theguardian.com + @newyorker.com, Mira Nair @ Club Ciné … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

Two new translations of Serge Daney from the ICA London program earlier this month. Thanks to @sabzian.bsky.social 1 of 2: On Raoul Ruiz's City of Pirates sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/09/city...

Superb @sabzian.bsky.social ICA Cinema Serge Daney season started last night. Tomorrow: Ford’s SHE WORE A YELLOW RIBBON (1949) www.ica.art/films/daney-...

Rare gathering of “Daneyans” (term coined by Nicholas Eliott) this afternoon at the ICA London for the screening of Nord Sud (conversation Daney/Sanbar). Pleasure to be there.

Serge Daney “returning” to the specificity of films after the intense early 70s ideological period of Cahiers du Cinéma (Translation of Pierre Eugène’s book on Daney, available on the blog: sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...)

With the ICA London programme about Serge Daney approaching, we've taken the opportunity to translate an extract of Pierre Eugène's incredible book about Daney (Pierre is attending a roundtable on Sept 30th). sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

This issue was compiled by Arta Barzanji and Gerard-Jan Claes (@gerardjanclaes.bsky.social), and appears in conjunction with an eponymous film programma at ICA London, starting at the end of August! → ica.art/serge-daney

Coming soon at the ICA in London (no details yet): In Focus: Serge Daney (29 August–4 September), a ten-film programme exploring the legacy of the influential critic in collaboration with @sabzian.bsky.social

Another translation of Serge Daney's radio show, this time in conversation with a combative Jean-Marie Straub. Thanks to Ted Fendt. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/05/micr...

Jia Zhangke and Zhao Tao @nytimes.com, 4Columns and @newyorker.com; Daney and Rivette @laurentktz.bsky.social; @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social on NYT film critic Andre Sennwald; Heiny Srour @thebaffler.com; Patrick Bateman @vulture.com … Did You See This? www.criterion.com/current/post...

New Serge Daney translation: two hours of discussion with Jacques Rivette (1989). Thanks to Ted Fendt. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/05/micr...

When you find one of your translations of a Serge Daney text featuring in an exhibition by the Fondation Cartier on Artavazd Pelechian... www.fondationcartier.com/en/online-pr...

Serge Daney’s travels, mapped by Pierre Eugéne from Daney’s postcards sent to his mum.

Serge Daney, António Reis & Margarida Cordeiro, Barbara Loden, Sergei Loznitsa, Jean Painlevé, Georges Sadoul and New Book Releases, all included in our latest Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/lMrx5 Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here: → sabzian.be/weekly-review

“Fiction means putting oneself in the middle of the world to tell a story. Documentary means going to the end of the world not to have to tell. ... Ana-end of the world? Ana-midst of the world?” – Serge Daney

Annual round-up of "Serge Daney in English" news. Happy New Year everybody. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/01/serg...

Serge Daney new translation alert: a lengthy section of his computer notes. Thanks to Kino Slang. kinoslang.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...

#reposts Jun 19, 2021. I tried. I'll live to regret this. #cinema #TrackingShots #Morality #Rivette #SergeDaney

Clue that @semiotexte.bsky.social is indeed working on the Volume 2 of Cinema House by Serge Daney...

#reposts Jul 8, 2024. From @sabzian.bsky.social This collection is indebted to an issue of the film magazine Balthazar, dedicated to the work of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub. The complete PDF is freely accessible on the website of Balthazar. ► tidsskriftbalthazar.dk

#reposts Feb 21, 2024. Meson Press has published the pdf of a new book: “Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia”. It has some great contributions, like Pierre Eugène’s on Daney’s homosexuality. meson.press/books/serge-...

#reposts Feb 10, 2024. By @maddiewhittle.bsky.social If you weren’t able to catch any films in our Serge Daney screening series (...) my panel conversation with Nicholas Elliott & @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social is now online! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

#reposts Jan 2, 2024. By @transcript-verlag.bsky.social [#Medienwissenschaft] Zwei legendäre Figuren der französischen Filmkultur als Impulsgeber ─ die Philologie des Kino-Begriffs im digitalen Zeitalter. #openaccess transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-6...

#reposts Dec 23, 2023. Birthday presents are here! The side-by-side between Nicholas Elliott’s translation of Serge Daney for ⁦@semiotexte.bsky.social and previous efforts at sergedaney.blogspot.com/2013/08/la-r... has started!

#reposts Dec 14, 2023. By @filmlinc.bsky.social Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s | Jan 26 – Feb 4 For the long-awaited arrival of LA RAMPE in English translation (published by Semiotext(e) as FOOTLIGHTS), FLC presents a generous selection of the films Daney championed in its pages.

#reposts Nov 17, 2023. Early Xmas present: Pierre Eugène’s essential “re-reading” of Daney’s early period. His phd thesis helped me understand Daney with so much clarity and I can’t wait to discover the book format. Must read. With access to Daney’s diaries and beautiful illustrations.

#reposts Sept 8, 2023. Serge Daney (and Toubiana) at the 1982 Cannes Film Festival: "We can accept that Passion is not Godard’s best but these films are kind of the secret factory of the cinema. Thing are being made there that will come back later, will be taken up by others, that will be re-used…"

#reposts Aug 8, 2023. Documentary "Serge Daney, le cinéma et le monde", available online for the month of August (with other treasures, in French): mediathequegeorgeswolinski.fr/agenda/400-f...

#reposts Jul 23, 2022. Met with film critic and fellow Serge Daney translator ⁦@J_A_F_B⁩ in Bangalore. Evidence: a rare book with old translations at ⁦⁦@blossombookhous ⁩

#reposts Apr 27, 2023. From @ddavidson329 Serge Daney sur le tournage de Grandeur et décadence d’un petite commerce de cinéma – –

#reposts Feb 24, 2023. From @cahierscinema 🖌️ Serge Daney, par Pochep, est l’un des personnages de la BD “Libération : Nos années folles” ! 📕 Recueil d’anecdotes croustillantes scénarisée par Marie Colmant et Gérard Lefort, ses collègues au service Culture de Libé dans les années '80.

#reposts Dec 8, 2022. On my way to meet co-translators of Serge Daney. Mandatory stop at where the Bleecker St Cinema used to be (1977 legendary Cahiers festival).

#reposts Nov 23, 2022. Serge Daney special booklet. All the way from LA via good old mail, thanks to @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social ⁩ ♥️♥️♥️

#reposts Oct 13, 2022. From @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social ✍️ A special 40-page zine by @semiotexte.bsky.social will be given to all ticketholders at our Serge Daney tribute event this Sunday, featuring M. Duras, J. Raynal, J.-L. Schefer and P. Garrel, all newly translated by Christine Pichini.

#reposts Oct 9, 2022. From @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social Photo: Serge Daney, Los Angeles, early 1960s. On 10/16, Mezzanine and Semiotext(e) present an evening in tribute to the film critic on the occasion of the first English-language collection of his writings.

#reposts Feb 12, 2022. New Serge Daney translation: 𝘞𝘪𝘮'𝘴 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦. On Wenders, Nick Ray and maybe the only "two great subjects in cinema: filiation and alliance." sergedaney.blogspot.com/2022/02/wims... (co-translated with the incredible @J_A_F_B)

#reposts Jan 23, 2022. Paul Grant spotted Serge Daney in this film. A Movie Capital Direction: Iizuka Toshio 1991 Japan dafilms.com/film/14092-a...

#reposts. Aug 4, 2021. A picture I've not seen before. Serge Daney, photo by Françoise Huguier, via capricornarty on Instagram.

#reposts May 14, 2021. Serge Daney's coverage of Cannes 1984 for 𝘓𝘪𝘣𝘦́𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 continues today with a bumper edition of four texts published on Monday 14 May 1984. See thread. Translated with @J_A_F_B 1/4 Daney’s Cannes chronicle was called: From the last row

#reposts May 7, 2021. No @Festival_Cannes in May this year? The Serge Daney in English blog is here: full coverage of the 1984 festival by Daney translated with @J_A_F_B , starting Monday. Wenders, Leone, Carax, Bergman, Ray, Herzog, Angelopoulos and more