Michel Ciment 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. Below is his top 10 films chosen for Sight & Sound’s Critic’s greatest films of all time 2012.
| 2001: A Space Odyssey | 1968 | Stanley Kubrick |
Fellini’s Casanova |
1976 | Federico Fellini |
Earrings of Madame De. |
1953 | Max Ophüls |
Persona |
1966 | Ingmar Bergman |
Providence |
1977 | Alain Resnais |
| Règle du jeu, La | 1939 | Jean Renoir |
| Salvatore Giuliano | 1962 | Francesco Rosi |
| Sansho Dayu | 1954 | Mizoguchi Kenji |
| Sunrise | 1927 | F. W. Murnau |
| Trouble in Paradise | 1932 | Ernst Lubitsch |
Film World: The Directors’ Interviews (Talking Images) Hardcover
Kazan on Kazan (Directors on Directors) by Michel Ciment (Paperback)
John Boorman by Michel Ciment Hardcover
Conversations with Losey by Michel Ciment (Paperback)
