Showing posts with label Michel Ciment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michel Ciment. Show all posts

Monday, May 26, 2025

Born on this day – Michel Ciment:


Michel Ciment


Writer

May 26, 1938 – November 13, 2023


Credits:

Books:

Boorman: A Visionary in its time (1985); Film World / anthology of interviews (2009); Fritz Lang: Murder and the Law (2003); Kazan by Kazan (1973); Kubrick: The Definitive Edition (2001); Crime on Screen: A History of America (1992); The Rosi Dossier (1976); The Book of Losey (1979); Passport to Hollywood: interviews with Wilder, Huston, Mankiewicz, Polanski, Forman & Wenders (1992); Little Cinematic Planet (2003); Stanley Kubrick (1980); Theo Angelopoulos (1989).

Movies and television:

At contre-temps (2009); À voix nue: major interviews of yesterday and today (2011); Abbas Kiarostami: The Art of Living (2003); About the Salesman (2018); Alan Corneau, from Black to Blue (2006); All About Mankiewicz (1983); Allemaal film (2007); Apostrophes (1985); Bouillon de culture (1993); Café Picouly (2011); Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff (2010); Tonight (or never!); (2007); Ciné regards (1978–1981); Movie lovers of Our Time (2012); Crítico (2008); In the Ears of Alain Resnais (2020); Right of reply: the spirit of contradiction (1982); Elia Kazan as An Outsider (1982); Artists' Proofs (2004); Exposed (1983); Filmmakers Talking: The Making of 'The Boys' (2003); Francesco Rosi: Chronicle of an Advertised Film (1986); Big Screen (1974); Il cineasta e il labirinto (2004); Il cinema ritrovato: istruzioni per l'uso (2004); Once upon a time... (2011 / 2021); I love you... moi non plus: Artistes et critiques (2004); Jerry Schatzberg, landscape portrait (2022); Jo the Magnificent (2005); King Social Briars / The Media Show (1988); Kubrick by Kubrick (2020); The Spielberg Adventure (2003); The Midnight Circle (1994–1997); The Ghost of Henri Langlois (2004); The Mask and the Feather (1976); The Nights of France Culture (2017–2023); The Guest of FR3 (1981); Lumière and Company (1995); Macadam Popcorn (2017); Metropolis (1996); Michel Ciment, sharing cinema (2010); Our Italians, from Magnani to Muti (2022); O Homem that Matou John Wayne (2015); Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema (2007); Portrait of a '60% Perfect Man': Billy Wilder (1980); Positif, a review (2003); Seduced and Abandoned (2013); Exit 2017 (2017); Special Cinema (1987); Stanley and Us (1999); Stanleyandus (2022); Success Is the Best Revenge (1984); Trace of the Bears (2010); One American named Kazan (2018); Von (2008); Yasujiro Ozu and the Taste of Sake (1978).

Recommended reading - Kubrick: The Definitive Edition, by Michel Ciment (2001):


Kubrick: The Definitive Edition

By Michel Ciment.

Published by Faber & Faber.
Published 2001.
ISBN-10: 0571199860
ISBN-13: 978-0571199860

Description:

"Michel Ciment's Kubrick: The Definitive Edition remains the best work on the great director. Through it we get a glimpse into a working method that was unique in the cinema. It is a fascinating blend of interviews and analysis." – Joel Coen.

"This final edition of Michel Ciment's definitive book is an invaluable resource." – Martin Scorsese.

If Stanley Kubrick had made only 2001: A Space Odyssey or Dr. Strangelove, his cinematic legacy would have been assured. But from his first feature film, Fear and Desire, to the posthumously released Eyes Wide Shut, Kubrick created an accomplished body of work unique in its scope, diversity, and artistry, and by turns both lauded and controversial.

In this fully revised and definitive edition of his now classic study, film critic Michel Ciment provides an insightful examination of Kubrick’s thirteen films --- including such favorites as Lolita, A Clockwork Orange, and Full Metal Jacket --- alongside an assemblage of more than four hundred photographs that form a complementary photo essay. Rounding out this unique work are a short biography of Kubrick; rare interviews that were held with the usually reticent director, as well as with cast and crew members, including Malcolm McDowell, Shelley Duvall, and Jack Nicholson; and a detailed filmography and bibliography.

Meshed with masterful integrity, the book’s text and illustrations pay homage to one of the most visionary, original, and demanding filmmakers of our time.

Sunday, October 20, 2024

On this day in movie history - Kubrick by Kubrick (2020):


Kubrick by Kubrick

a documentary directed and written by Gregory Monro,
was released at the Chicago International Film Festival in the United States on October 20, 2020.
Music by Vincent Théard.


Cast:

Stanley Kubrick, Michel Ciment, Malcolm McDowell, Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Sterling Hayden, Arthur C. Clarke, Marisa Berenson, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio, Peter Sellers, Garrett Brown, Ken Adam, Leonard Rosenman, Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Christiane Kubrick, Roger Ebert, Dann Gire, Maurice Beaupère, J.-H. Bigay, Kirk Douglas, Pierre Fruchon, Sue Lyon, James Mason, Agop Terzan.