Michel Ciment
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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
Credits
Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
as Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open (2023)
as Self (interview)
Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
as Self
Elia Kazan: An Outsider (1982)
as Self - Host
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)
as Self
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1982)
as Self / Interviewer
Stanley and Us (1999)
as Self
John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma (2017)
as Self - Host
An American Named Kazan (2019)
as Self
Critic (2008)
as Self
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003)
as Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne (2017)
as Self
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage (2022)
Actor
Joseph Losey and the Criminal (2008)
Actor
Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake (1978)
as Self
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard (2025)
as Self
Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon' (2017)
as Self
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)
as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
Le Prédateur et la proie (2017)
as Himself
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood (2010)
as Himself
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies (2010)
as Michel Ciment
Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment (—)
Actor
About The Salesman (2018)
Actor
All About Mankiewicz (1983)
as Self
M présenté par Michel Ciment (2016)
Actor