Michel Ciment

Michel Ciment

Known for
Acting
Born
May 26, 1938
Died
November 13, 2023 (aged 85)
Birthplace
Paris, France

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

Filmography

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Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment poster

Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment

Movie

2025
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard poster

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard

Movie · as Self

2024
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France poster

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

Movie · as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic

2023
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open poster

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

Movie · as Self (interview)

2022
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage poster

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage

Movie

2022
Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey poster

Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey

TV · as self · 3 eps

2020
Kubrick by Kubrick poster

Kubrick by Kubrick

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2019
An American Named Kazan poster

An American Named Kazan

Movie · as Self

2018
About The Salesman poster

About The Salesman

Movie

2017
Le Prédateur et la proie

Le Prédateur et la proie

Movie · as Himself

2017
John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma poster

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma

Movie · as Self - Host

2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne poster

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

Movie · as Self

2017
Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon' poster

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'

Movie · as Self

2016
M présenté par Michel Ciment

M présenté par Michel Ciment

Movie

2013
Seduced and Abandoned poster

Seduced and Abandoned

Movie · as Self

2010
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies

Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies

Movie · as Michel Ciment

2010
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff poster

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Movie · as Self (archive footage)

2010
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood poster

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood

Movie · as Himself

2008
Critic poster

Critic

Movie · as Self

2008
Joseph Losey and the Criminal

Joseph Losey and the Criminal

Movie

2004
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth poster

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

Movie · as Self

2004
Leçon de Cinéma poster

Leçon de Cinéma

TV · as Self - Host · 1 ep

2003
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living poster

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

Movie · as Self

1999
Stanley and Us poster

Stanley and Us

Movie · as Self

1983
All About Mankiewicz poster

All About Mankiewicz

Movie · as Self

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

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

Movie · as Self / Interviewer

1982
Elia Kazan: An Outsider poster

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

Movie · as Self - Host

1978
Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake poster

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake

Movie · as Self

1978
Ciné regards poster

Ciné regards

TV · as Self · 5 eps

1975
Apostrophes poster

Apostrophes

TV · as Self · 1 ep

1974
Spécial cinéma poster

Spécial cinéma

TV · as Self · 2 eps