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“... about cinema, is writing, and talk as a form of writing. In The Cinema House and the World, Serge Daney, whose career at Cahiers du cinéma began in 1964, insists that he and his colleagues ‘always did love … a cinema that is haunted by writing’. Robert Bresson said much the same thing: ‘Cinema is not a spectacle. It’s a kind of ...”

“... memory of film. At another point, and for quite some time, Godard is interviewed by the critic Serge Daney, who does most of the talking. ‘The New Wave,’ Daney says, ‘is perhaps the only generation which found itself in the middle of the century and the cinema at the same time.’ Godard was lucky, he adds, to ...”

“... made its point nonetheless. This reminded me of something that a one-time Cahiers linchpin, Serge Daney, wrote in 1992, recalling a formative influence on his criticism. In the Cahiers of June 1961, Jacques Rivette – yet to attain his eminence as a leading director of the Nouvelle Vague – reviewed Kapò, a film by Gillo Pontecorvo about the ...”

“... himself. When the film was released, however, few were aware of the family dramas at its centre. Serge Daney spoke for many when, in Cahiers du cinéma, he accused Malle and Modiano of ignoring the social and ideological roots of collaboration by refusing to illuminate Lucien’s motives. Yet the film’s silence was an epistemological decision as much ...”

“... of the pedagogue, a role for which he had already shown a leaning. Indeed, in the late Seventies, Serge Daney took him to task in the pages of Cahiers du Cinéma itself for his drill-master style of pedagogy, for setting citation against citation while avoiding responsibility for either, for his de-contextualisation of sources and his terroristic use of ...”

“... the point of abstraction. Melville’s first gangster film was Le Doulos (1962), with Belmondo and Serge Reggiani, based on a polar by Pierre Lesou. It’s a tangled story of brotherhood and betrayal among criminals, revolving around the question of whether Silien, the cocky young thug played by Belmondo, is a saviour or a doulos – an informer. But the most ...”