
Michel Ciment
Known for department: Acting
Birthday: 1938-05-26 – 2023-11-13
Place of birth: 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

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