laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Serge Daney listed as co-writer of Louis Skorecki's short: Feet (and head) in the clouds 030
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Serge Daney in English alert: courtesy of @kino-slang.bsky.social metrograph.com/meeting-otar...metrograph.comMeeting Otar Iosseliani - Journal - MetrographA newly translated interview with the titan of Georgian cinema. 052
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026And also, www.sabzian.be/news/serge-d...sabzian.beSerge Daney in PersianOne year after the publication of the issue Serge Daney and the Promise of Cinema on Sabzian, accompanied by a ten-film programme at London’s ICA, Kokermag publishes a Persian-language selection devot... 020
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Serge Daney translation (from Twitter): 010
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 08/03/2026New Serge Daney translation series: 11 texts remaining from the "film on TV" chapter of his book Recrudescence... Thread tracking them one by one 1/12 121
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026New Serge Daney translation (as I slowly work my way through the remaining translations of Recrudescence). The Bacchantes Stripped Bare sergedaney.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...sergedaney.blogspot.comThe Bacchantes Stripped BareAnother text from Recrudescence .... The Bacchantes Stripped Bare Is a naked woman in Agfacolor still a woman and, if so, is she really nak... 020
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 27/02/2026Repost from @chilviaofarc on X (x.com/chillviaofarc). 030
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 16/02/2026New 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-...sergedaney.blogspot.comThe Devil, Master of the ScreenplayA text from Recrudescence .... The Devil, Master of the Screenplay We often hope that French films will give us the euphoria of a burst of... 030
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Serge 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-... 010
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 10/01/2026New Serge Daney translation: The Diagonale Archipelago. From the 2nd issue of new quarterly film magazine Narrow Margin. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...sergedaney.blogspot.comThe Diagonale ArchipelagoNew quarterly film magazine Narrow Margin centres its second issue on Diagonale, the French alternative film production company created by ... 0104
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 04/01/2026A few days late, annual round up of Serge Daney news. Happy new year everyone. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2026/01/serg...sergedaney.blogspot.comSerge Daney in 2025Time for the annual round-up of Serge Daney news. Time also to acknowledge that this blog is twenty years old: the first post was in Novembe... 010
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Ad 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.' 060
Reposted by laurentktz.bsky.socialMidCenturyCinema @midcenturycinema.bsky.social · 25/10/202510/25/72: 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-... 1227
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 24/10/2025Four 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...sergedaney.blogspot.comRomania 1/4: Freeze-ImagesLibération , 23-24 Dec 1989 The television coverage of the 1989 Romanian revolution was intriguing enough to Serge Daney that he wrote four ... 162
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 21/09/2025New Serge Daney translation from 1983 Cannes: Jean-Jacques Beineix, Destination Moon… or not! sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/09/jean...sergedaney.blogspot.comJean-Jacques Beineix, Destination Moon… or not!Jean-Jacques Beineix, Destination Moon… or not! Yesterday at Cannes, the filmmaker defended, tooth and nail, his aesthetics. We can’t say t... 020
Reposted by laurentktz.bsky.socialDavid Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Chantal 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... 083
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 14/09/2025Two 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...sergedaney.blogspot.comCity of PiratesThe ICA London program " Serge Daney and the promise of cinema " ended a coule of weeks ago and the organisers at Sabzian were kind enough t... 193
Reposted by laurentktz.bsky.socialTony Paley @tpaleyfilm.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Superb @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-... 013
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 30/08/2025Rare 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. 060
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 04/08/2025Serge 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-...) 040
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025With 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-... 080
Reposted by laurentktz.bsky.socialSabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · 25/06/2025This 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 076
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 21/06/2025Coming 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 1155
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 12/05/2025Another 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...sergedaney.blogspot.comMicrofilms: Jean-Marie StraubIn quick succession, Ted Fendt has sent us another translation of one of Serge Daney's radio broadcasts (Microfilms). After Jacques Rivette,... 060
Reposted by laurentktz.bsky.socialDavid Hudson @dwhdaily.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Jia 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... 1122
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 05/05/2025New Serge Daney translation: two hours of discussion with Jacques Rivette (1989). Thanks to Ted Fendt. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/05/micr...sergedaney.blogspot.comMicrofilms: Jacques RivetteFrom September 1985 to July 1990, Serge Daney hosted a weekly radio show called Microfilms . Ted Fendt just gifted this blog the translated ... 02713
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 28/04/2025When 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... 020
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 25/04/2025Serge Daney’s travels, mapped by Pierre Eugéne from Daney’s postcards sent to his mum. 081
Reposted by laurentktz.bsky.socialSabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · 07/04/2025Serge 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 072
Reposted by laurentktz.bsky.socialSabzian @sabzian.bsky.social · 02/04/2025“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 Daneysabzian.beIn the Midst of the End of the World, Serge Daney, 1983Completely unclassifiable, this second feature film of António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro; how wonderful this journey into the world calmly pierced by our perceptions, between the accuracy of dreami... 0103
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 01/01/2025Annual round-up of "Serge Daney in English" news. Happy New Year everybody. sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/01/serg...sergedaney.blogspot.comSerge Daney in 2024Usual annual round-up of "Serge Daney in English" news. There were no new books as in 2022 and 2023, so we'll do with bits on pieces this ye... 063
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 31/12/2024Serge Daney new translation alert: a lengthy section of his computer notes. Thanks to Kino Slang. kinoslang.blogspot.com/2024/12/the-...kinoslang.blogspot.comTHE EXERCISE WAS BENEFICIAL, SIR – (Serge Daney) – 1What follows are the first entries, what amounts to roughly the first 16 pages, of Serge Daney's posthumously published book L'Exercice a ... 053
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#reposts Jun 19, 2021. I tried. I'll live to regret this. #cinema #TrackingShots #Morality #Rivette #SergeDaney 720
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Clue that @semiotexte.bsky.social is indeed working on the Volume 2 of Cinema House by Serge Daney... 061
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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 053
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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-...meson.press/ Pierre Eugène, Kate Ince, Marc Siegel: Serge Daney and Queer CinephiliaFrench 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... 000
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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...youtube.comSerge Daney Talk with Richard Brody, Nicholas Elliott & Madeline WhittleYouTube video by Film at Lincoln Center 063
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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... 011
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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! 000
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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. 010
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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. 010
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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…" 000
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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... 000
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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 010
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#reposts Apr 27, 2023. From @ddavidson329 Serge Daney sur le tournage de Grandeur et décadence d’un petite commerce de cinéma – – 000
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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. 000
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#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). 000
laurentktz.bsky.social @laurentktz.bsky.social · 26/12/2024#reposts Nov 23, 2022. Serge Daney special booklet. All the way from LA via good old mail, thanks to @mezzaninefilm.bsky.social ♥️♥️♥️ 010