Michel Ciment

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.

On screen

  • 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
  • Kubrick by Kubrick
  • An American Named Kazan
  • About The Salesman
  • John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
  • The Man Who Killed John Wayne
  • Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
  • Seduced and Abandoned
  • Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
  • RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
  • Critic
  • The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
  • Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
  • Stanley and Us
  • All About Mankiewicz
  • Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
  • Elia Kazan: An Outsider
  • Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
  • Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment

Behind the camera

  • Success Is the Best Revenge
  • Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

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