Michel Ciment

23Movies

8.5 Best Rating

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.

Top Rated Movies

★8.5

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France (2024) movie poster

★8.5

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 a scandal in a Fran

The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France

2024•Documentary

★7.9

★7.9

Critic — Seventy critics and filmmakers discuss cinema around the conflict between the artist and the observer, the creator and t

Critic

2008•Documentary

★7.6

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open (2023) movie poster

★7.6

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open — Nicole Kidman has worked with a host of top directors in a varied career including Gus Van Sant, Jane Campion, Stanley K

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open

2023•Documentary

★7.5

The Man Who Killed John Wayne —

The Man Who Killed John Wayne

2017•Documentary

★7.0

Le Prédateur et la proie —

Le Prédateur et la proie

2017•Documentary

Complete Filmography & Verdicts

Year	Movie	Character	Rating	Verdict
2025	A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard	Self	★ 6.0	FLOP
2024	The Sorrow and the Pity: The Film That Shocked France	Self (voice) (archive footage) - Film Critic	★ 8.5	HIT
2023	Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open	Self (interview)	★ 7.6	HIT
2022	Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage	-	★ 0.0	FLOP
2019	An American Named Kazan	Self	★ 6.0	FLOP
2018	About The Salesman	-	★ 4.2	FLOP
2017	Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon'	Self	★ 0.0	FLOP
2017	Le Prédateur et la proie	Himself	★ 7.0	HIT
2017	John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma	Self - Host	★ 0.0	FLOP
2017	The Man Who Killed John Wayne	Self	★ 7.5	HIT
2016	M présenté par Michel Ciment	-	★ 0.0	FLOP
2010	Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies	Michel Ciment	★ 0.0	FLOP
2010	RKO, A Story made in Hollywood	Himself	★ 0.0	FLOP
2010	Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff	Self (archive footage)	★ 6.6	HIT
2008	Joseph Losey and the Criminal	-	★ 0.0	FLOP
2008	Critic	Self	★ 7.9	HIT
2004	The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth	Self	★ 0.0	FLOP
2003	Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living	Self	★ 7.0	HIT
1999	Stanley and Us	Self	★ 6.0	FLOP
1983	All About Mankiewicz	Self	★ 0.0	FLOP
1982	Elia Kazan: An Outsider	Self - Host	★ 6.0	FLOP
1982	Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder	Self / Interviewer	★ 6.7	HIT
1978	Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake	Self	★ 0.0	FLOP