
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)

Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
as Self

Elia Kazan: An Outsider (1982)
as Self - Host

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma (2017)
as Self - Host

About The Salesman (2018)
Actor
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies (2010)
as Michel Ciment

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon' (2017)
as Self

Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment (—)
Actor

Critic (2008)
as Self

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
as Self (archive footage)
Joseph Losey and the Criminal (2008)
Actor

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage (2022)
Actor
Le Prédateur et la proie (2017)
as Himself

Stanley and Us (1999)
as Self

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake (1978)
as Self

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open (2023)
as Self (interview)

All About Mankiewicz (1983)
as Self

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003)
as Self
M présenté par Michel Ciment (2016)
Actor

An American Named Kazan (2019)
as Self

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1982)
as Self / Interviewer

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard (2025)
as Self

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)
as Self

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)
as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood (2010)
as Himself

The Man Who Killed John Wayne (2017)
as Self




