A word of advice to film artists who want to get ahead: don’t move around too much. Film history often gets subsumed under national film history, so filmmakers who keep moving risk getting lost. And ...

In the play “Spain” it is 1936, two filmmakers want to make a film about the Spanish Civil War. But their paymasters are the KGB. The good news: Ernest Hemingway is there to help. Senior Editor and ...

The filmmaker Joris Ivens was the son of C.A.P. Ivens, owner of the CAPI photography shop in Nijmegen. With the help of his father’s employees, in the 1910s the young Joris Ivens made the short film ...

Even on his deathbed, Dutch director - and lifelong communist - Joris Ivens was concerned about the fate of his spiritual homeland. In late June, 1989, a period of unrest, the 90-year-old uttered his ...

14/02/2003 - Joris Ivens' widow makes an autobiographical film about her experience of a German concentration camp, seen through Anouk Aimée's eyes Thirty years spent working with her husband left ...

Having undergone their first aerial bombardment, the crew now push forward to the front to get some battle scenes. For copyright reasons this reading is not available as a podcast Joris Ivens was a ...