Le Figaro sections and servicesLe Figaro sections and servicesFigaro Group sitesCRITICISM – Billy Wilder, John Huston, Marlene Dietrich… In Passport to Hollywood, reissued, the critic from the magazine Positif delivers a good number of little phrases from movie stars.He is like a fish in water.Over the years, Michel Ciment met filmmakers for the magazine Positif.Often he seems to know their films better than they do.Credit where credit is due: this collection of interviews*, originally published in 1987 and no longer found, begins with Billy Wilder.In his office on Santa Monica Boulevard, there was a stuffed bird in his cage.Wilder remembers his beginnings when he typed scripts on his machine: "What we wrote was a bit of toilet paper which they used or not."He makes fun of Godard and his acrobatics, evokes Marilyn (“Directing her was like pulling teeth”).Marlene?("She's a German Hausfrau. Her favorite thing is scrubbing the floor and making scrambled eggs.").Barry Lyndon?("One Hundred Miles from Reynolds and Gainsborough").Read also Michel Ciment, cinema in the skinHe points out that William Holden had not undergone a facelift."It's remarkable, in a city where, with the pieces of skin that you...This article is for subscribers only.You have 70% left to discover.Cultivating your freedom is cultivating your curiosity.Keep reading your article for €0.99 for the first monthAlready subscribed?LoginThere are currently no comments for this article.Be the first to give your opinion!Tom Cruise back behind the aviator glasses of "Maverick", a horrific dystopia signed Cronenberg... What should we see this week?Discover the cinema selection of Le Figaro.While the actor is again on the bill, with Peter Five Eight, presented at the Cannes market, his legal troubles seem to catch up with him.In this trailer, we discover Christian Bale in the skin of Gorr the Butcher, enemy of the god of Thunder and his ex-girlfriend Jane Foster.Michel Ciment: secrets of the seventh artUnlimited items from €0.99 without commitment