Exploration fuels many of humanity’s most important scientific and artistic pursuits. But in Lav Diaz’s decidedly unromantic “Magellan,” the promise of the horizon can’t save a crew in peril from the ...

Sales agency Luxbox has come on board Lav Diaz’s historical drama “Magellan,” which stars Gael García Bernal. The film will have its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival’s Premiere section. Diaz’s ...

Lav Diaz spins a post-colonial trapdoor of a tale that turns the Age of Discovery’s paperwork of suffering into a reminder ...

Despite our best efforts to go into a film completely blind, sometimes we’ll catch online chatter or a snippet of a promotional interview that inevitably colors something about our first viewing of an ...

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 ...

Filipino director Lav Diaz is in pre-production with “An Amazon,” following the world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival of “Magellan,” starring Gael Garcia Bernal. The project will be shot in ...

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 this ...

Which is to say that while “Magellan” reps Diaz’s best shot at general arthouse distribution in some time, it’s no artistic compromise. The spirit of slow cinema is alive and languid in this ...

Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal stars in a new film which re-examines the discovery of the Philippines by European explorers and questions the existence of a national resistance hero. "Magellan", ...

Sales agency Luxbox has come on board Lav Diaz's historical drama "Magellan," which stars Gael García Bernal. The film will have its world premiere in Cannes Film Festival's Premiere section. Diaz's ...