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[]
- ^ New General Catalog of Old Books and Authors
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Biography for Michel Ciment". IMDb. Retrieved 2007-07-18.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Berlinale 1976: Juries". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
- ^ Notice biographique sur IMDb
External links[]
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- 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
Categories:
- 1938 births
- Living people
- French film critics
- French journalists
- 20th-century French writers
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- Knights of the National Order of Merit (France)
- Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
- Writers from Paris
- Radio France people
- 20th-century French male writers
- French male non-fiction writers