Michel Ciment

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

Apostrophes

Spécial cinéma

Leçon de Cinéma

Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey

Kubrick by Kubrick

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

Seduced and Abandoned

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

All Movies (26)

• A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard2025 · as Self
• The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France2024 · as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
• Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open2023 · as Self (interview)
• Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage2022
• Kubrick by Kubrick2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• An American Named Kazan2019 · as Self
• About The Salesman2018
• Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'2017 · as Self
• Le Prédateur et la proie2017 · as Himself
• John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma2017 · as Self - Host
• The Man Who Killed John Wayne2017 · as Self
• M présenté par Michel Ciment2016
• Seduced and Abandoned2013 · as Self
• Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies2010 · as Michel Ciment
• RKO, A Story made in Hollywood2010 · as Himself
• Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff2010 · as Self (archive footage)
• Joseph Losey and the Criminal2008
• Critic2008 · as Self
• The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth2004 · as Self
• Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living2003 · as Self
• Stanley and Us1999 · as Self
• All About Mankiewicz1983 · as Self
• Elia Kazan: An Outsider1982 · as Self - Host
• Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder1982 · as Self / Interviewer
• Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake1978 · as Self
• Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment—

All TV Shows (4)

• Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey2022 · as self
• Leçon de Cinéma2004 · as Self - Host
• Apostrophes1975 · as Self
• Spécial cinéma1974 · as Self