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.
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Acting History
2025
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard as Self
2024The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
2023Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open as Self (interview)
2022Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey as self
2019An American Named Kazan as Self
2018About The Salesman
2017Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon' as Self
2017Le Prédateur et la proie as Himself
2017John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma as Self - Host
2017The Man Who Killed John Wayne as Self
2016M présenté par Michel Ciment
2010Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies as Michel Ciment
2010RKO, A Story made in Hollywood as Himself
2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self (archive footage)
2008Joseph Losey and the Criminal
2008Critic as Self
2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
2004Leçon de Cinéma as Self - Host
2003Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living as Self
1999Stanley and Us as Self
1983All About Mankiewicz as Self
1982Elia Kazan: An Outsider as Self - Host
1982Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder as Self / Interviewer
1978Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake as Self
1975Apostrophes as Self
1974Spécial cinéma as Self