Michel Ciment

A Summer with Joe, Liz and Richard (2025)

Shot between Sardinia, Rome, London, Paris, Baltimore and Los Angeles, the film tells of the arrival of Hollywood at Capo Caccia in 1967, when the film "Boom" by Joseph Losey was shot, with the stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Although the film, ...

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

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of Presid ...

Nicole Kidman: Eyes Wide Open (2023)

Nicole Kidman has worked with a host of top directors in a varied career including Gus Van Sant, Jane Campion, Stanley Kubrick, Lars von Trier and Sofia Coppola. A portrait of a fascinatingly ambivalent actress who shines in Hollywood blockbusters as well ...

Jerry Schatzberg, Portrait Paysage (2022)

The photographic world of Jerry Schatzberg. ...

Kubrick by Kubrick (2020)

American filmmaker Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999), one of the greatest in history, but also one of the most reserved, gave few interviews throughout his long career, and none of them were filmed. A first-person journey through his life and work, based on a ...

An American Named Kazan (2019)

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 Art ...

About The Salesman (2018)

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 ...

Passion and Reason: Michel Ciment on 'Barry Lyndon' (2017)

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. ...

Le Prédateur et la proie (2017)

John Boorman : Leçon de cinéma (2017)

The Man Who Killed John Wayne (2017)

M présenté par Michel Ciment (2016)

Michel Ciment talks about Losey's M. ...

Seduced and Abandoned (2013)

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED combines acting legend Alec Baldwin with director James Toback as they lead us on a troublesome and often hilarious journey of raising financing for their next feature film. Moving from director to financier to star actor, the two pla ...

Michel Ciment: The Art of Sharing Movies (2010)

Director Simoné Laine delves into Ciment's influential life, including his history with film periodical Positif (and its infamous rivalry with Cahiers du cinéma). ...

RKO, A Story made in Hollywood (2010)

The history of RKO - one of the legendary "Big Five" studios of the Hollywood's Golden Age, from its creation in 1928 (when the movies started talking) to its demise in 1956, largely due to the mismanagement by its last CEO, Howard Hughes. During this peri ...

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010)

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 camerawo ...

Joseph Losey and the Criminal (2008)

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. ...

Critic (2008)

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 ...

The Filmmaker and the Labyrinth (2004)

A documentary looking at the life and films of Francesco Rosi. ...

Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003)

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. ...

Stanley and Us (1999)

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. ...

All About Mankiewicz (1983)

Joseph L. Mankiewicz discusses his career in a feature-length interview recorded at his New England home and the 1983 Berlin Film Festival. ...

Elia Kazan: An Outsider (1982)

Hour long documentary on the legendary director. ...

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1982)

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking. ...

Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake (1978)

A 1978 episode of the French television program Ciné regards, featuring critics Michel Ciment and Georges Perec, that looks back on Ozu's career. ...

Le Prédateur et la proie (2017)

Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)

Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though. ...

Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1982)

French film critic Michel Ciment interviews Billy Wilder about his life and filmmaking. ...