Michel Ciment
Born
26 May 1938 (87)
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Biography
Michel Ciment (May 26, 1938 - November 13, 2023) was a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif. Ciment was a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the former president of FIPRESCI. Ciment participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Earrings of Madame de..., Fellini's Casanova, Persona, Providence, The Rules ...
Michel Ciment (May 26, 1938 - November 13, 2023) was a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif. Ciment was a Chevalier of the Order of Merit, Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, and the former president of FIPRESCI. Ciment participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll, where he listed his ten favorite films as follows: 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Earrings of Madame de..., Fellini's Casanova, Persona, Providence, The Rules of the Game, Salvatore Giuliano, Sansho the Bailiff, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, and Trouble in Paradise. Source: Article "Michel Ciment" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography (25)
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020
An American Named Kazan
2019
About The Salesman
2018
Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
2017
Le Prédateur et la proie
2017
John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
M présenté par Michel Ciment
2016
Seduced and Abandoned
2013
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
2010
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Joseph Losey and the Criminal
2008
Critic
2008
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003
Stanley and Us
1999
All About Mankiewicz
1983
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982
Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
1978