Michel Ciment
Actor
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.
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As Director
Filmography
Kubrick by Kubrick
as Self (archive footage) 2020
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage) 2010
Critic
as Self 2008
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
as Self (interview) 2023
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
as Self / Interviewer 1982
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
as Self 2003
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
as Self - Host 1982
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic 2024
An American Named Kazan
as Self 2019
Stanley and Us
as Self 1999
About The Salesman
2018
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self 2017
Le Prédateur et la proie
as Himself 2017
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
as Self 2025
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
as Michel Ciment 2010
M présenté par Michel Ciment
2016