Death of Michel Ciment, film critic and figure in The Mask and the Feather

Historian and film critic Michel Ciment is no more, France Inter media reported. It is based on Orson Welles’ court review sent to the magazine, it was published in 1963 in the magazine. positive. Then he became a member of the editorial committee and then the director of the publication for many years.

Jérôme Garcin, producer of Le Masque et la Plume, for which Michel Ciment was a regular, paid tribute to him:

The entire “Mask and Feather” family lost one of the closest people. It is perhaps the freest, most encyclopedic spirit that film criticism has ever produced.

Discover his remarkable book of memoirs, a glimpse into his rich career

On September 24, at the age of 85, Michelle Cimenti appeared on the show Mask and feathers, of which he was one of the historical critics. There were reviews of Philip Garrel’s The Big Chariot, Aki Kaurimak’s Dead Leaves, and Pham Tien An’s The Golden Butterfly Tree.

In addition to Le Masque et la plume, he also produced the show Personal screening For French culture, which was broadcast from 2005 to 2016 and which returned each week to a unique cinema theme.

We owe him the reference works, especially the interview books Kubrick or Kazan by Kazanbut also Jane Campion by Jane Campion and Burman, A Vision of His Time.