Michel Ciment
Acting
- Born:
- 1938-05-26
- Died:
- 2023-11-13
- 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 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.
Known For
Filmography
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey
Kubrick by Kubrick
An American Named Kazan
About The Salesman
Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
Le Prédateur et la proie
John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
M présenté par Michel Ciment
Seduced and Abandoned
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Joseph Losey and the Criminal
Critic
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
Leçon de Cinéma
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Stanley and Us
All About Mankiewicz
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
Ciné regards
Apostrophes
Spécial cinéma
Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment