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 ...

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

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 ...

The dawn of the age of European exploration in the 16th century was absurdly dangerous ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...