Michel Ciment
Birthday: 1938-05-26
Place of Birth: Paris, France
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 Paradise. Source: Article "Michel Ciment" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking....
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Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Nicole Kidman has worked with a host of top directors in a varied career including Gus Van Sant, Jan...
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Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
Director Simoné Laine delves into Ciment’s influential life, including his history with film periodi...
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A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard
Shot between Sardinia, Rome, London, Paris, Baltimore and Los Angeles, the film tells of the arrival...
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An American Named Kazan
Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the...
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Stanley and Us
Three hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The funny ...
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Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and schola...
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Critic
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observe...
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About The Salesman
The Salesman is Asghar Farhadi's seventh film that won two trophies for the Best Actor and Best Scre...
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All About Mankiewicz
Joseph L. Mankiewicz discusses his career in a feature-length interview recorded at his New England ...
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Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
A 1978 episode of the French television program Ciné regards, featuring critics Michel Ciment and Ge...
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Joseph Losey and the Criminal
A documentary presented by French film critic Michel Ciment, including an interview with Losey's wif...
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Acad...
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Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
French critic and of editor of the film magazine Positif Michel Ciment discusses Stanley Kubrick's f...
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The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth
A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi....
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The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France
The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused...
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RKO, A Story made in Hollywood
The history of RKO - one of the legendary "Big Five" studios of the Hollywood’s Golden Age, from its...
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