Serge Daney
French film critic (1944-1992) · France · On the map · Directors · Died at 48
Serge Daney was a French movie critic. He was a major figure of Cahiers du cinéma, which he co-edited in the late 1970s. He also wrote extensively about films, television, and society in the newspaper Libération and founded the quarterly review Trafic shortly before his death.
Serge Daney is read about 41 times a day, in 12 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 25 June 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 60 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Journey of a “Cine-Son”Film, 19921991
A Movie CapitalFilm
LeewardFilm, 19911990
Jacques Rivette, the WatchmanFilm, Director1989
Cinéma, de notre tempsSeries, Director1988
Histoire(s) du cinémaSeries
Entretien entre Serge Daney et Jean-Luc GodardFilm, 19881980
Cinématon N°67 Serge DaneyFilmCinématon VIIFilm, 1980N°671969
Jean Renoir : Partie de campagneFilm1944Born4 June 1944People around Serge
Close ties
Filmography 15
19 credits on file
Television 2
Awards
About this person
Highly regarded in French and European film criticism circles, his work remained little known to English-speaking audiences until recent translations. A first book-long interview, Postcards from the Cinema, was published in 2007, two collections of his writings prior to 1982, The Cinema House and the World, in 2022, and Footlights, in 2023.
