Quotes by Serge Daney - Page 1

A cinephile is someone who expects too much of cinema.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Cinema
Too Much
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The personal appropriation of cliches is a condition for the spread of cultural tourism.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Cliche
Spread
Tourism
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If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Believe
Cinema
Littles
Time Believe Your
Screen
Wasting
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Television is a formidable thinking tool. You are like an analyst to whom society's subconscious would be offered wide open.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Thinking
Tools
Would Be
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In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Age
Encounters
Reality
Synthetic
Accidental
Chances
Emotions
Images
Indeed
Remote
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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.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Cinema
Culture
Today
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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.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Ignorance
Media
Political
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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.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Actors
Black
Silent Films
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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.
Serge Daney / Film Critic
Dream
Enemy
Soldier
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