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A new translation of a little know text by Daney. But also the first film review ever written about Amos Gitai.

http://sergedaney.blogspot.com/2024/11/amos-gitai-tonight.html

Amos Gitai, tonight

A text written for Libération in 1982 that wasn't included in the (not so) complete writings La maison cinéma et le monde (vol. 2). Thanks...

New Serge Daney translation by
@_SamWM_
spotted on Letterbox and added to the blog. A nice one too, on Paul Vecchiali's Trous de mémoire.
http://sergedaney.blogspot.com/2024/02/vecchiali-shoots-in-sequence.html
Vecchiali shoots in sequence

Surprise translation spotted on the internet and reproduced here with minor changes. It's from the second volume of The Cinema House and th...

Meson Press has published the pdf of a new book: “Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia”. It has some great contributions, like Pierre Eugêne’s on Daney’s homosexuality. https://meson.press/books/serge-daney-and-queer-cinephilia/
/ Pierre Eugène, Kate Ince, Marc Siegel: Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia

French critic Serge Daney was a central figure in film, television and media criticism of the second half of the twentieth century. He died of AIDS in 1992, just as the concept of queer cinema entered international film studies and just before the start of the digital era that has transformed film culture. This collection ...It’s Open Access! Check it out!

meson press

.@filmlinc talk where we learn that Semiotexte(e) has committed to translating other books by Serge Daney and that Christine Pichini is translating the second volume of The Cinema House and the World...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BF0ANIz3wVQ

Serge Daney Talk with Richard Brody, Nicholas Elliott & Madeline Whittle

YouTube
New Serge Daney translation from Footlights. Daney's review of Jaws. "Gray matter". On the fundamentally reactionary principles of disaster films. https://metrograph.com/gray-matter/
Gray Matter - Journal - Metrograph

On Steven Spielberg’s Jaws (1975) and the logic of the disaster movie.

Metrograph
The round-up of of Serge Daney in English for 2023 is out. Decent harvest: two new books + four other texts translated. Happy New Year to all.
https://sergedaney.blogspot.com/2024/01/serge-daney-in-2023.html
Serge Daney in 2023

Time for the annual round-up. It's normally a muted affair but this was another big year for "Serge Daney in English". Twenty-one years afte...

Birthday presents are here! The side-by-side between Nicholas Elliott’s translation of Serge Daney and previous efforts at https://sergedaney.blogspot.com/2013/08/la-rampe-table-of-contents.html has started!
La rampe - Table of contents

La rampe was Daney's first book as a critic. It covers writings from Cahiers du cinéma from 1972 (one year before Daney took over the rein...

Big event for Daney fans at the @filmlinc in NY with a fab program of films reviewed by Serge Daney.
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/never-look-away-serge-daneys-radical-1970s/#films
Never Look Away: Serge Daney's Radical 1970s

Film at Lincoln Center announces “Never Look Away: Serge Daney’s Radical 1970s,” a series celebrating French film critic Serge Daney (1944–1992) and the films he championed in his book La Rampe, occasioned by its long-awaited English translation by Semiotext(e) under the title Footlights.

Film at Lincoln Center
Footlights, the translation of Serge Daney's first book, La Rampe, is out. Extract here:https://sergedaney.blogspot.com/2023/12/in-praise-of-tati.html
In Praise of Tati

This month (December 2023) sees the release of a second book of translations of Serge Daney by the team at Semiotext(e) ( Footlights ). It's...

Testing Twitter / X alternative for all things Serge Daney. Probably the first ever #SergeDaney tag on Mastodon