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The writings of one of the greatest film critics of his generation on the auteur approach of the French New Wave to a more structural examination of film.

One of the greatest film critics of his generation, Serge Daney wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma before becoming a journalist for the…


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Jean-Luc Gordard famously said that film criticism died with the premature demise of Serge Daney, at the age of 48, in 1992. Daney wrote an incredible number of essays and reviews, and his eloquence is astounding. Daney seems to have undergone something of a breakthrough in the Anglo-Saxon world more than thirty years after his death with some new translations, such as The Cinema House.

I consider him the most original reviewer that has ever lived, for I can never foretell his opinion of a certain film: he is constantly oscillating between cinephilic passion and political commitment, between enthusiasm…

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