Michel Ciment

Known for: Acting
Born: May 26, 1938, Paris, France
Died: November 13, 2023
Movies: 28

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.

Upcoming Michel Ciment Movies

Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment

Release date TBA

Best-Known Movies

6.2

Seduced and Abandoned

2013

7.3

Kubrick by Kubrick

2020

6.6

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

2010

7.9

Critic

2008

7.6

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

2023

6.9

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

1982

6.5

Success Is the Best Revenge

1984

6.8

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

1982

7.0

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living

2003

8.0

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

2024

Filmography

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

Directing, Writing & Producing

2017	Le Prédateur et la proie	Director
1984	Success Is the Best Revenge	Writer
1982	Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder	Director

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