Three new translations on this blog:
- Vecchiali Shoots in Sequence on Paul Vecchiali's Trous de mémoire
- What Can a Heart? - on Manoel de Oliveira's Francisca
- Amos Gitai, tonight - a forgotten but important text, the first about Gitai.
New translations elsewhere (some of previously translated texts):
- Notes on Salò - by Pasolini of course.
- Gray Matter - a great text on Spielberg's Jaws
- Due to the Resurgence of Handbag Thefts - the first 16 pages of one of Daney's posthumous book.
One book about Daney:
- Serge Daney and Queer Cinephilia - a series of articles, some excellent like Pierre Eugène's text on Daney's homosexuality.
A couple of events:
- Never Look Away: Serge Daney's Radical 1970s - a series of films at the Lincoln Film Center organised for the publication of Footlights.
- The rerun of La loi du marcheur in France - a theatre play taking inspiration from a 1992 documentary (a three-hour Daney monologue really).
And like every year, there are other projects being worked on (with no date):
- Publishing house Semiotexte(e) confirmed they are working on translating the volume 2 of Cinema House and the World (but confessed it's taking a long time - it's the biggest of the four volumes)
- Nicholas Elliot (the translator of Footlights) did intend to translate Ciné-Journal but also mentioned he had to attend to other (non-Daney) projects in the meantime.
- Film critic Emmanuel Burdeau keeps giving conferences about Daney in France... a book was once rumored to be in the offing.
