
Michel Ciment
Born: 1938-05-26
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

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003★ 7.0

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010★ 0.0

Critic
2008★ 7.9

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
2017★ 0.0

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004★ 0.0

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010★ 6.6

Stanley and Us
1999★ 6.0

Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982★ 6.0

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023★ 7.6

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
1978★ 0.0

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025★ 6.0

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024★ 8.5

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022★ 0.0

An American Named Kazan
2019★ 6.0

The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017★ 7.5

About The Salesman
2018★ 4.2

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
2017★ 0.0

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982★ 6.7

All About Mankiewicz
1983★ 0.0