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.
Movie Appearances
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
as Self / Interviewer
1982
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
as Self - Host
1982
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
as Self (interview)
2023
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
as Michel Ciment
2010
Le Prédateur et la proie
as Himself
2017
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
as Self
2025
An American Named Kazan
as Self
2019
Stanley and Us
as Self
1999
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
as Self
2003
Critic
as Self
2008
M présenté par Michel Ciment
2016
About The Salesman
2018
All About Mankiewicz
as Self
1983
Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
as Self
1978
John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
as Self - Host
2017
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self
2017
Joseph Losey and the Criminal
2008
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage)
2010
Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
as Self
2017
