Michel Ciment
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
- Apostrophes (1975)
- Spécial cinéma (1974)
- Ciné regards (1978)
- Leçon de Cinéma (2004)
- Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)
- Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)
- Seduced and Abandoned (2013)
- Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open (2023)
- Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey (2022)
- The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)
- Elia Kazan: An Outsider (1982)
- An American Named Kazan (2019)
- Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1982)
- Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003)
- Critic (2008)
- The Man Who Killed John Wayne (2017)
- John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma (2017)
- The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024)
- Stanley and Us (1999)
- RKO, A Story made in Hollywood (2010)