
Michel Ciment
Acting
Born 1938-05-26 · Paris, 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. 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

Critic
2008 · Movie

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020 · Movie

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004 · Movie

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023 · Movie

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010 · Movie

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024 · Movie

Seduced and Abandoned
2013 · Movie

The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017 · Movie

Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982 · Movie

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982 · Movie

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003 · Movie

All About Mankiewicz
1983 · Movie

Stanley and Us
1999 · Movie

An American Named Kazan
2019 · Movie

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025 · Movie

About The Salesman
2018 · Movie

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
1978 · Movie

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010 · Movie

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
2017 · Movie

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
2017 · Movie

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022 · Movie