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Born May 26, 1938 · Paris, France
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.

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
2025

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
2024

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
2023

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
2022

Kubrick by Kubrick
2020

An American Named Kazan
2019

About The Salesman
2018

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
2017
Le Prédateur et la proie
2017

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
2017

The Man Who Killed John Wayne
2017
M présenté par Michel Ciment
2016

Seduced and Abandoned
2013
Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
2010

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
2010

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
2010
Joseph Losey and the Criminal
2008

Critic
2008

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
2004

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
2003

Stanley and Us
1999

All About Mankiewicz
1983

Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
1982

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
1978