Gael García Bernal plays the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in Lav Diaz’s portrait of a brutal adventurer and his travels across ...
At the last New York Film Festival, an edition featuring megawatt celebrities like Julia Roberts and star-studded films like Jay Kelly, it was heartening to see the slow cinema auteur Lav Diaz—far ...
An acclaimed new film dramatises the pioneering voyage of the world-famous Portuguese navigator – a trailblazer who has been ...
With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand ...
The historical epic, which premiered in Cannes last year, is getting a limited theatrical release in the US from January 9 ...
Director Lav Diaz presents an epic, granular depiction of transoceanic travel and colonialist misadventure in an absorbing ...
If “Gael Garcia Bernal as Magellan” sounds to you like a pretty cool Netflix series, you have never seen a film by Filipino auteur and slow-cinema master Lav Diaz. Known on the international festival ...
Magellan by Lav Diaz, a historical biopic starring Gael García Bernal, was featured in the Cannes Première lineup for 2025 ...
In two portraits of seafaring religious zealots, the directors Lav Diaz and Mona Fastvold employ bold formal devices to hold ...
A coalition of astronomers is pushing to rename the Milky Way’s closest neighboring galaxies, arguing that the Portuguese explorer they are named after was a “murderer” who had nothing to do with ...