Michel Ciment

Acting

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.

Filmography 31

Movies (26)

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