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Life is Donge One more text from Recrudescence . The section "Ghosts of Permanence" is now translated.  Life is  Donge André* is tougher than me since he ...

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Life is Donge
(The Truth about Bebe Donge, Henri Decoin, 1952)
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Sissi, the Young (Ostrich) Empress Another text from Recrudescence . Sissi, the Young (Ostrich) Empress*  "Can one say that Sissi ignored the fear of seeing clearly? Certainl...

11/12
Sissi, the Young (Ostrich) Empress
(Sissi, the Young Empress, Ernst Marischka, 1956)
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10/12
Zeffirelli, Tchi Tchi
(La Traviata, Franco Zeffirelli, 1982)
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Downstairs, Study Another text from Recrudescence . Downstairs , Study The film begins and we know nothing about it. It dates from 1932 and it's not even a c...

9/12
Downstairs, Study
(Downstairs, Monta bell, 1932)
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Tireless Cranes Another text from Recrudescence . Tireless Cranes  If When the Cranes are Flying* were a question, the answer would be: from the third sho...

8/12
Tireless Cranes
(The cranes are flying, Mikhail Kalatozov, 1957)
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The King Was Naked Another text from Recrudescence . The King Was Naked — Let me ask you a poser, said the film. Do you know the title of the film that in 193...

7/12
The King was Naked
(The King, Pierre Colombier, 1936)
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A Hopeless Verneuil Another text from Recrudescence . A Hopeless Verneuil What is more formidable than a Romanian farmer? Let's take one from the 1940s. There ...

6/12
A Hopeless Verneuil
(The Twenty-Fifth Hour, Henri Verneuil, 1967)
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Who Likes Maurice Cloche? Another text from Recrudescence . Who Likes Maurice Cloche? Nothing is more embarrassing than the way certain films go about winning their c...

5/12
Who Likes Maurice Cloche?
(Rooster Heart, Maurice Cloche, 1946)
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A Good Lelouch? Yes Another text from Recrudescence . A Good Lelouch? Yes If we knew quite well how a bad Lelouch looked on the big screen, we didn't yet know h...

4/12
A Good Lelouch ? Yes
(Love is a funny thing, Claude Lelouch, 1969)
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The Bacchantes Stripped Bare Another text from Recrudescence . The Bacchantes Stripped Bare Is a naked woman in Agfacolor still a woman and, if so, is she really naked?...

3/12
The Baccantes Stripped Bare
(Ah! The Nice Moustache or Peek-a-Boo, Jean Loubignac, 1954)
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The Devil, Master of the Screenplay A text from Recrudescence . The Devil, Master of the Screenplay   We often hope that French films will give us the euphoria of a burst of sp...

2/12
The Devil, Master of the Screenplay
(Beauty and the Devil, René Clair, 1949)
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New 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

The Bacchantes Stripped Bare Another text from Recrudescence .... The Bacchantes Stripped Bare Is a naked woman in Agfacolor still a woman and, if so, is she really nak...

New Serge Daney translation (as I slowly work my way through the remaining translations of Recrudescence).

The Bacchantes Stripped Bare
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Repost from @chilviaofarc on X (x.com/chillviaofarc).

The Devil, Master of the Screenplay A text from Recrudescence .... The Devil, Master of the Screenplay   We often hope that French films will give us the euphoria of a burst of...

New 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."

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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the second sentence.

Having spent over a year and a half in North Africa, Cruise came back to see his country transformed: he became, in his own words, "a completely different political animal".

Serge 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

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The Diagonale Archipelago New quarterly film magazine Narrow Margin centres its second issue on Diagonale, the French alternative film production company created by ...

New Serge Daney translation: The Diagonale Archipelago. From the 2nd issue of new quarterly film magazine Narrow Margin.

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Serge Daney in 2025 Time 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...

A few days late, annual round up of Serge Daney news. Happy new year everyone.

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Sake for Children So, it turns out that the previous post ( Manga, Sake for the Eyes , Art Press, 1986) was merely a shorter rewrite of a longer piece publish...

Hi, I've found it why this 1986 article about a 1982 trip to Japan was weird... It's a rewrite of the original 1982 article. Translated here: sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/12/sake...

Manga, Sake for the Eyes New translation of a 1986 text on manga for the magazine Art Press. Thanks to Ryan Waller for suggesting it on Bluesky. The text seems to co...

Thanks for the patience and the review. It’s online: sergedaney.blogspot.com/2025/11/mang...

Ad 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.'

You're on. You'll need patience. I need to find the time.

Thanks for the mention. Lovely way to link Radu Jude and the Serge Daney's texts on Romania.

There is. Serge Daney wrote the article "Manga, Sake for the Eyes" in Art Press, issue 109, December 1986. A simple like or response from you will result in a translation of this article on the Serge Daney in English blog (sergedaney.blogspot.com).

10/25/72: Jean-Pierre Melville's last, Un Flic
w/Delon, Deneuve, Crenna ++
Opening sequence remains unsurpassed
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Romania 4/4: Nicolae and Elena Bequeath their Bodies to Television Libération , 4 Apr 1990 Fourth and last text of the Romania series .  Nicolae and Elena Bequeath their Bodies to Television While we might f...

4/4 Nicolae and Elena Bequeath their Bodies to Television (Libération, 26 Apr 1990)
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Romania 3/4: Romania, Year Zero Third text of the Romania series . Romania, Year Zero    “If there is such a thing as history, and if man is indeed a historical being, it i...

3/4 Romania, Year Zero (Cahiers du cinéma, February 1990)
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Romania 2/4: The Judges and the Assassin Libération , 27 Dec 1989 Second text of the Romania series . The Judges and the Assassin    At which point is there a need to show? At the ...

2/4 The Judges and the Assassin (Libération, 27 Dec 1989)
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