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Michel Ciment

Michel Ciment

Actor · 1938–2023 · Paris, France

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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.

Acted in 3

2020s

  1. 2022

    Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage

    Movie

2010s

  1. 2018

    About The Salesman

    Movie

No release date

  1. Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment

    Movie

Wrote 1

1980s

  1. 1984

    Success Is the Best Revenge

    Writer

Directed 1

1980s

  1. 1982

    Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

    Director

Appearances24

2020s

  1. 2025

    A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard

    Self

  2. 2024

    The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

    Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic

  3. 2023
  4. 2022

    Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey

    self · 3 episodes

  5. 2020

2010s

  1. 2019

    An American Named Kazan

    Self

  2. 2017

    Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'

    Self

  3. John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma

    Self - Host

  4. The Man Who Killed John Wayne

    Self

  5. 2013
  6. 2010

    RKO, A Story made in Hollywood

    Himself

2000s

  1. 2008

    Critic

    Self

  2. 2004

    The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth

    Self

  3. 2003

    Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

    Self

1990s

  1. 1999

    Stanley and Us

    Self

1980s

  1. 1983

    All About Mankiewicz

    Self

  2. 1982

    Elia Kazan: An Outsider

    Self - Host

  3. Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder

    Self / Interviewer