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Joris Ivens
Highest Rated: 80% The Spanish Earth (1937)
Lowest Rated: 64% Far From Vietnam (1967)
Birthday: Nov 18, 1898
Birthplace: Nijmegen, Gelderland, The Netherlands
Joris Ivens' contributions to the development of documentary filmmaking are multitudinous. His editing style employed the principles of Russian montage editing, at the same time displaying an impressionistic lyricism, often focused on continuity of movement, which remains unsurpassed. His sound films often utilized a dialectical relationship between sound and image, and several times he enjoyed significant collaborations with literary artists. Although he has been faulted for using too many re-enactments in his documentaries, the ultimate force of his work overshadows such criticisms.
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Filmography
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| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How Yukong Moved the Mountains |
Director, Writer |
- | 1976 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | 17th Parallel: Vietnam at War | Director | - | 1968 |
| 64% | 91% | Far From Vietnam | Director | - | 1967 |
| No Score Yet | 90% | ...A Valparaíso | Director | - | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | La Seine a rencontré Paris |
Director, Writer |
- | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Song of the Rivers | Director | - | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 83% | Know Your Enemy: Japan | Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Our Russian Front | Director | - | 1942 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Power and the Land | Director | - | 1940 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The 400 Million |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1939 |
| 80% | 42% | The Spanish Earth | Director | - | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Song of Heroes | Director | - | 1932 |
| No Score Yet | 92% | Rain |
Director, Screenwriter |
- | 1929 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Bridge |
Director, Cinematographer, Film Editing |
- | 1928 |