Michel Ciment
Known for ActingBorn 1938-05-26 — died 2023-11-13Paris, France
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.
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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.
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Known for
Kubrick by Kubrick
2020 · as Self (archive footage)
Seduced and Abandoned
2013 · as Self
Stanley and Us
1999 · as Self
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010 · as Self (archive footage)
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982 · as Self - Host
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023 · as Self (interview)
Critic
2008 · as Self
About The Salesman
2018
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982 · as Self / Interviewer
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024 · as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment
Joseph Losey and the Criminal
2008
An American Named Kazan
2019 · as Self
John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
2017 · as Self - Host
Le Prédateur et la proie
2017 · as Himself
Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
2017 · as Self
Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
1978 · as Self