Michel Ciment

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Michel Ciment in March 2010

Michel Ciment (French: [simɑ̃]; born 26 May 1938 in Paris)^[1] is a French film critic^[2] and the editor of the cinema magazine Positif.^[2]

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.^[2]

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, and Trouble in Paradise.^[3]

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^[4]
• 1978 Cannes Film Festival^[2]
• 1990 Locarno International Film Festival

Honours and distinctions^[5][]

• 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[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Michel Ciment.

• Michel Ciment at IMDb
• 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