Michel Ciment (; born 26 May 1938 in Paris) is a French film critic and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif.
Ciment is 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.
Favorite films
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.
Publications
Kazan par Kazan (1973) Le Dossier Rosi (1976) Le Livre de Losey (1979) Stanley Kubrick (1980) Boorman : un visionnaire en son temps (1985) Theo Angelopoulos (1989) Le crime à l'écran : Une histoire de l'Amérique, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 139), Paris: Gallimard (1992) Passeport pour Hollywood : entretiens avec Wilder, Huston, Mankiewicz, Polanski, Forman & Wenders, (1992) Fritz Lang : le meurtre et la loi, coll. "Découvertes Gallimard" (n° 442), Paris: Gallimard (2003) Petite planète cinématographique (2003)
Film festival juror
26th Berlin International Film Festival, 1976
1978 Cannes Film Festival
1990 Locarno International Film Festival
Honours and distinctions
Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur
Chevalier de l'Ordre national du Mérite
Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Président de la FIPRESCI
References
External links
Interviews with Stanley Kubrick
Interview (in French) about his function as Jury at the Cannes festival 1978
Interview: Michel Ciment on "Mavericks and Outsiders: 'Positif' Celebrates American Cinema", Glenn Kenny, Notebook News brief: "The Michel Ciment Incident," Ali Naderzad, Screen Comment, 2017 Cannes Festival