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 ...

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

With the beach just minutes from the airport, Lapu-Lapu City on Mactan Island—site of the historic clash between chieftain ...

After receiving critical acclaim at Cannes, including a five-minute standing ovation during its premiere night, Lav Diaz’s latest opus “Magellan” (Magalhães) may soon set its course back to 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 ...

Several names bearing resemblance to incumbent lawmakers from the House of Representatives and the Senate, along with one ...

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 ...