
Michel Ciment
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 26 May 1938 · Paris, France
- Died
- 13 November 2023
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
Acting 26
- 2026Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment
- 2025A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard as Self
- 2024The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France as Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
- 2023Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open as Self (interview)
- 2022Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
- 2020Kubrick by Kubrick as Self (archive footage)
- 2019An American Named Kazan as Self
- 2018About The Salesman
- 2017Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon' as Self
- 2017Le Prédateur et la proie as Himself
- 2017John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma as Self - Host
- 2017The Man Who Killed John Wayne as Self
- 2016M présenté par Michel Ciment
- 2013Seduced and Abandoned as Self
- 2010Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies as Michel Ciment
- 2010RKO, A Story made in Hollywood as Himself
- 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff as Self (archive footage)
- 2008Joseph Losey and the Criminal
- 2008Critic as Self
- 2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth as Self
- 2003Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living as Self
- 1999Stanley and Us as Self
- 1983All About Mankiewicz as Self
- 1982Elia Kazan: An Outsider as Self - Host
- 1982Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder as Self / Interviewer
- 1978Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake as Self
Directing 2
- 2017Le Prédateur et la proie · director
- 1982Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder · director
Writing 1
- 1984Success Is the Best Revenge · writer



