Michel Ciment

Michel Ciment

Born: May 26, 1938
Died: November 13, 2023
in 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.

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Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Title: Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open
Character: Self (interview)
Released: September 10, 2023
Type: Movie
Over the years, Nicole Kidman, Oscar and two-time Emmy Award winner, became both a pop culture icon & a complex dramatic actress. Her career is a unique body of work that mirrors her personal life, which is more political than it might seem.
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Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
Title: Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage
Released: August 31, 2022
Type: Movie
The photographic world of Jerry Schatzberg.
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An American Named Kazan
Title: An American Named Kazan
Character: Self
Released: March 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War II. Actor, theater director, filmmaker, writer, he is the founder of Actor’s Studio, a collaborator of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, and a director who discovered Marlon Brando and James Dean.
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About The Salesman
Title: About The Salesman
Released: April 11, 2018
Type: Movie
The Salesman is Asghar Farhadi's seventh film that won two trophies for the Best Actor and Best Screenplay at Cannes Film Festival in 2016 and the academy award for the best Foreign Language Film in 2017. About The Salesman is a documentary about Farhadi's method of filmmaking: development, pre-production, production, and post-production, with interviews with Asghar Farhadi and the analysis of the renowned Iranian and international film critics about The Salesman and Farhadi's cinema.
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Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
Title: Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'
Character: Self
Released: October 17, 2017
Type: Movie
French critic and of editor of the film magazine Positif Michel Ciment discusses Stanley Kubrick's films from the 1950s and the evolution of his directing style.
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Le Prédateur et la proie
Title: Le Prédateur et la proie
Character: Himself
Released: August 15, 2017
Type: Movie
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John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
Title: John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma
Character: Self - Host
Released: June 3, 2017
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Title: The Man Who Killed John Wayne
Character: Self
Released: January 20, 2017
Type: Movie
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M présenté par Michel Ciment
Title: M présenté par Michel Ciment
Released: April 6, 2016
Type: Movie
Michel Ciment talks about Losey’s M.
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Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
Title: Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies
Character: Michel Ciment
Released: July 3, 2010
Type: Movie
Director Simoné Laine delves into Ciment’s influential life, including his history with film periodical Positif (and its infamous rivalry with Cahiers du cinéma).
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Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Title: Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 5, 2010
Type: Movie
In 2001 Jack Cardiff (1914-2009) became the first director of photography in the history of the Academy Awards to win an Honorary Oscar. But the first time he clasped the famous statuette in his hand was a half-century earlier when his Technicolor camerawork was awarded for Powell and Pressburger's Black Narcissus. Beyond John Huston's The African Queen and King Vidor's War and Peace, the films of the British-Hungarian creative duo (The Red Shoes and A Matter of Life and Death too) guaranteed immortality for the renowned cameraman whose career spanned seventy years.
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Joseph Losey and the Criminal
Title: Joseph Losey and the Criminal
Released: November 4, 2008
Type: Movie
A documentary presented by French film critic Michel Ciment, including an interview with Losey's wife Patricia. Covers much of Losey's career with the particular focus on The Criminal.
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Crítico
Title: Crítico
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and the critic. Between 1998 and 2007, Kléber Mendonça Filho recorded testimonies about this relationship in Brazil, the United States and Europe, based on his experience as a critic.
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Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Title: Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Through an interview with Kiarostami in the Aran Islands and interviews with film critics and scholars at Cannes, the director examines Kiarostami's themes and methods. The director also profiles Kiarostami as a poet and a photographer.
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Stanley and Us
Title: Stanley and Us
Character: Self
Released: October 8, 1999
Type: Movie
Three hapless directors arrive in England from Italy to make a documentary on their idol. The funny thing is, they have no interviews lined up! Not to worry, these guys have a miracle or two that they call in.
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All About Mankiewicz
Title: All About Mankiewicz
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Joseph L. Mankiewicz discusses his career in a feature-length interview recorded at his New England home and the 1983 Berlin Film Festival.
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Elia Kazan: An Outsider
Title: Elia Kazan: An Outsider
Character: Self - Host
Released: September 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Hour long documentary on the legendary director.
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Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
Title: Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder
Character: Self / Interviewer
Released: May 21, 1982
Type: Movie
French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking.
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Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
Title: Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake
Character: Self
Released: March 14, 1978
Type: Movie
A 1978 episode of the French television program Ciné regards, featuring critics Michel Ciment and Georges Perec, that looks back on Ozu’s career.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV