The first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by the expedition led initially by Ferdinand Magellan and later by Juan ...

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 ...

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 filmmaker Lav Diaz’s epic, visually stunning film presents its subject not as a daring explorer but as desperate and despotic.

After receiving critical acclaim at Cannes, including a five-minute standing ovation during its premiere night, Lav Diaz’s ...

People only have four days left to the the historical Spanish ship, Nao Victoria, in Plymouth. The ship is a replica of the ...

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 ...

Cannes: With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan. Should the nine-hour version eventually emerge for public ...

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 ...