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

• 2022Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
• 2018About The Salesman
• 2017Le Prédateur et la proie — Himself, Director
• 2016M présenté par Michel Ciment
• 2010Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies — Michel Ciment
• 2008Joseph Losey and the Criminal
• 1984Success Is the Best Revenge — Writer
• 1982Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder — Self / Interviewer, Director
• Rencontre entre Jerry Schatzberg & Michel Ciment

Appearances as themselves (23)

• 2025A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard — Self
• 2024The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France — Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic
• 2023Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open — Self (interview)
• Stanleyandus - a Kubrick odyssey — self
• 2020Kubrick by Kubrick — Self (archive footage)
• 2019An American Named Kazan — Self
• 2017John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma — Self - Host
• 2017Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon' — Self
• 2017The Man Who Killed John Wayne — Self
• 2013Seduced and Abandoned — Self
• 2010Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff — Self (archive footage)
• 2010RKO, A Story made in Hollywood — Himself
• 2008Critic — Self
• Leçon de Cinéma — Self - Host
• 2004The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth — Self
• 2003Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living — Self
• 1999Stanley and Us — Self
• 1983All About Mankiewicz — Self
• 1982Elia Kazan: An Outsider — Self - Host
• Ciné regards — Self
• 1978Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self