Serge Daney
Serge Daney
Serge Daneywas an influential French movie critic who went on from writing film reviews to developing a “television criticism” and onto building a personal theory of the image. Although highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work remains little known to English-speaking audiences, largely because it has not been consistently translated...
silent-films black faces
Garrel has succeeded in filming something we have never seen before: the faces of actors in silent films during those moments when the black intertitles, with their paltry, illuminated words, filled the screen.
condition cultural personal spread travel-and-tourism
The personal appropriation of clichTs is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
thinking tools television
Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open…
today culture cinema
Inasmuch as it's a culture, cinema is the only thing at our disposal with which we can recognize ourselves in today's images. As an instrument it's inevitably inadequate, but it's the only one.
ignorance media share
The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
tourism cliche spread
The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
reality age encounters
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
cinema too-much
A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.
dream soldier enemy
According to U.S. strategy, if you never see the other, his destruction will be more acceptableso that when Iraqi soldiers surrendered, sooner than expected, it was as if they emerged from a dream, a flash-back, a lost epoch--an epoch when the enemy still had a body and was still "like us.
believe littles cinema
If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.