Ciment

Now about to receive his Masters in Mental Health while teaching high school students, Ciment says he would not have considered the idea of going back to school had he not lost his old job and realizes now that it was divine intervention.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: 'Are You There God? It's Me, Jobless' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

Ciment can relate to congregants in need because there was a time when he too was out of work.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: 'Are You There God? It's Me, Jobless' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

Ciment can relate to congregants in need because there was a time when he too was out of work.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: 'Are You There God? It's Me, Jobless' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

Another book I loved that seems seriously under-read was "The Tattoo Artist" by Jill Ciment.

INTERVIEW: M Rickert 2009

Ciment can relate to congregants in need because there was a time when he too was out of work.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: 'Are You There God? It's Me, Jobless' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

Now about to receive his Masters in Mental Health while teaching high school students, Ciment says he would not have considered the idea of going back to school had he not lost his old job and realizes now that it was divine intervention.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: 'Are You There God? It's Me, Jobless' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

Now about to receive his Masters in Mental Health while teaching high school students, Ciment says he would not have considered the idea of going back to school had he not lost his old job and realizes now that it was divine intervention.

Shira Hirschman Weiss: 'Are You There God? It's Me, Jobless' Shira Hirschman Weiss 2011

And from Michel Ciment, editor of Positif, she hears, "Part of the problem is a lack of credibility of film critics."

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 1/29. 2007

Updates: "No less an eminence than the venerable critic Michel Ciment (he wrote the book on Kubrick, among other things), to whom I was just introduced by the critics 'mailboxes at the Palais, agrees with me that Julian Schnabel's Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly) is a pretty solid contender for this year's Palme d'Or," confides Premiere's Glenn Kenny.

GreenCine Daily: Cannes. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. 2007

Update, 5/22: "It's an affecting tale, related with a solid if slightly plodding inevitability (French critic Michel Ciment even likened it to DW Griffith's Orphans of the Storm!) and a few too many implausibilities," writes Time Out's Geoff Andrew.

GreenCine Daily: Cannes. Blind Mountain. 2007