Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/26/1938
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Michel Ciment
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 P...
Known For
Critic
as Self
Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
as Self (archive footage)
The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
Stanley and Us
as Self
The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
as Self
Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
as Self
All About Mankiewicz
as Self
An American Named Kazan
as Self
Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
as Self (interview)
Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
Unknown Role
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
as Self - Host
The Man Who Killed John Wayne
as Self
Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
as Self / Interviewer
A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
as Self
John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
as Self - Host
RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
as Himself
Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
as Self
About The Salesman
Unknown Role
Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
as Self