The slow-cinema maestro’s rare color film views history as more than just black and white The post The austere poetry of Lav ...

By the standards of Filipino formalist and running-time maximalist Lav Diaz, his latest opus “Magellan” qualifies as a ...

Premiering at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, 'Magellan' sees Gael García Bernal and Lav Diaz unite for an immersive epic.

Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers and questions ...

Lav Diaz's "Magellan" which was presented at the 78th Cannes Film Festival as part of its Cannes Premiere Selection earned a five-minute standing ovation after it was shown at the Debussy Theatre here ...

Five hundred years ago, Ferdinand Magellan began a historic journey to circumnavigate the globe. Simple, right? Not really— the explorer and his voyage are a study in contradiction. Magellan was ...

Filipino director Lav Diaz has hinted that a short version of his long-awaited feature starring Gael García Bernal as 16th Century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan could premiere in Cannes ...

some years ahead of the Portuguese capture thereof — a mission on which the young Ferdinand Magellan was a crew member. In an unspoilt landscape of silty earth and dense, wind-rustled tropical ...