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
Seduced and Abandoned
as Self
Kubrick by Kubrick
as Self (archive footage)
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage)
Critic
as Self
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
as Self (interview)
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
as Self / Interviewer
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
as Self - Host
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
An American Named Kazan
as Self
Stanley and Us
as Self
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self
Le Prédateur et la proie
as Himself
All About Mankiewicz
as Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
as Self
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
as Michel Ciment