Last year witnessed the death of Serge Daney, France's greatest film critic. The event passed almost entirely unremarked in Britain. Daney had edited Cahiers du Cinema, and was also the cinema editor of Liberation. In the year before he died he helped to found, and edited, a new French film magazine: Trafic. The following extracts from his diary are taken from the first issue. Daney died of AIDS, a fact which, characteristically, he wished to be reported.

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