On Serge Daney’s 'The Cinema House and the World'

French film critic Serge Daney, on par with André Bazin and the leading critic-directors of the French New Wave, died in 1992 at the early age of 48. But he is back in the news, as Semiotext(e) has recently issued a new collection of his work, The Cinema House and the World: The Cahiers du Cinema Years, 1962–1981, translated by Christie Pichini, which is the first of four planned Daney-authored volumes. Daney viewed cinema as a great living-giving tree, branching off in many directions.