- Known For
- Acting
- Born
- May 26, 1938
- Place of Birth
- Paris, France
- Died
- November 13, 2023
Michel Ciment
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
movieA Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025 · Self
movieThe Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024 · Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
movieNicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023 · Self (interview)
movieJerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022
tvStanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey
2022 · self
movieKubrick by Kubrick
2020 · Self (archive footage)
movieAn American Named Kazan
2019 · Self
movieAbout The Salesman
2018
moviePassion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
2017 · Self
Le Prédateur et la proie
2017 · Himself, Director
movieJohn Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
2017 · Self - Host
movieThe Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017 · Self
M présenté par Michel Ciment
2016
movieSeduced and Abandoned
2013 · Self
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
2010 · Michel Ciment
movieRKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010 · Himself
movieCameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Joseph Losey and the Criminal
2008
movieCritic
2008 · Self
movieThe Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Self
tvLeçon de Cinéma
2004 · Self - Host
movieAbbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003 · Self
movieStanley and Us
1999 · Self
movieSuccess Is the Best Revenge
1984 · Writer
movieAll About Mankiewicz
1983 · Self
movieElia Kazan: An Outsider
1982 · Self - Host
moviePortrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982 · Self / Interviewer, Director
movieYasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
1978 · Self
tvApostrophes
1975 · Self
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieRencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment
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