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French film critic and historian Michel Ciment, the long-time publishing director of film magazine Positif, has died at the age of 85, French media reported on Monday evening.
Ciment first started writing for the Lyon-based magazine in 1963, when he contributed a piece about the cinema of Orson Welles.
The magazine was launched in 1952 shortly after Les Cahiers du Cinéma by Bernard Chardère, who also died this year.
In a talk at Paris’s Forum Des Images in 2022, marking Positif’s 70th anniversary, Ciment recounted how he started reading the magazine in the 1950s as a teenager, while hanging around the Le Minotaure bookshop in the Paris quarter of Saint-Germain-des-Près.
“It was an amazing place where you’d bump into other cinephiles like Jean-Claude Romer, who went on to create [the cinema magazine] Midi Minuit Fantastique,” recounted Ciment.
“There were a lot of people from Les Cahiers and Positif… You couldn’t find the cinema revues in kiosks then. I’d go there once a week to buy Sight and Sound, Positif or the Les Cahiers.”
Ciment rose to be one of France’s best-known critics.
As well as writing for Positif, he was also a regular contributor to radio station France Inter’s weekly culture show “Le Masque et la Plume”, last participating at the end of September to join discussions on Pham Thien An’s Camera d’Or winner The Golden Butterfly Tree, Philippe Garrel’s The Plough and Aki Kaurimäki’s Dead Leaves.
Across his career, Ciment interviewed a number of revered directors in depth for seminal books on their work including Stanley Kubrick, John Boorman, Andreï Konchalovsky and Elia Kazan.
More recently he explored the lure of Hollywood in the 2022 book Passport Pour Hollywood, featuring interviews with Billy Wilder,
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