November 14, 2023

write a title which is good for an website to rank high in google searches about this content Michel Ciment during a press conference for the film “A Hidden Life” at the 72nd edition of the Cannes Film Festival, May 20, 2019. LAURENT EMMANUEL / AFP Film critic Michel Ciment died at the age of 85, confirmed Monday evening, November 13, his entourage at France Inter. “Michel Ciment was a reference in film criticism. France Inter listeners have heard his voice for more than fifty years in “Le Masque et la Plume” wrote on X (ex-Twitter)Adèle Van Reeth, director of public radio. Director of publication of the journal Positive which he joined in the 1960s, he was also producer of the show “Projection privee” on France Culture from 1990 to 2016. “He dedicated his entire life to transmitting, through words and writing, his erudition and his passion for the seventh art”, paid tribute to France Culture on. “Film criticism is shrinking like nothing” Michel Ciment was also a lecturer at the University of Paris VII, and author of books on cinema, notably on Stanley Kubrick, Elia Kazan, Joseph Losey, Francesco Rosi and Jane Campion. “It is perhaps the freest, most encyclopedic spirit that film criticism has ever produced”declared Jérôme Garcin, producer of the show “Le Masque et la Plume”. Arnaud Viviant, who was one of his friends in the France Inter show, paid tribute on to one “encyclopedic spirit which let nothing slip, flawless propagator of the 7th art”. “Michel Ciment was not only a great critic, an internationally recognized historian, but a curious mind about cinema and art, having fought throughout his life,” greeted the former president of the Cannes Film Festival, Gilles Jacob. Also read the interview (2019): Article reserved for our subscribers Michel Ciment: “France is the only country in the world where so many writers have made films” A taste for intellectual battle that Michel Ciment has always claimed. In the 1960s, “when we were critical, we weren’t afraid of making enemies. Today, film criticism is shrinking like nothing else”he lamented in an interview with Monde made in 2019. “Young people are more cautious. Perhaps they are secretly envious of a time when you could scrap metal. I had the advantage of being a teacher, with a monthly salary. It gave me total economic independence”he explained. The world

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