
Michel Ciment
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

Ciné regards
1978

Apostrophes
1975

Spécial cinéma
1974

Leçon de Cinéma
2004

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020

Seduced and Abandoned
2013

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010

Critic
2008

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023

About The Salesman
2018

Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982

Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey
2022

Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment

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

Stanley and Us
1999

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

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
2017

An American Named Kazan
2019

The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
1978

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025

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

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010