The director and star reveal why the "hero" of the Philippines was actually a myth, how historical records lied about the ...

Director Lav Diaz presents an epic, granular depiction of transoceanic travel and colonialist misadventure in an absorbing ...

Gael García Bernal plays the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in Lav Diaz’s portrait of a brutal adventurer and his travels across ...

In two portraits of seafaring religious zealots, the directors Lav Diaz and Mona Fastvold employ bold formal devices to hold ...

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 ...

The historical epic, which premiered in Cannes last year, is getting a limited theatrical release in the US from January 9 ...

With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand ...

Filipino slow cinema legend Lav Diaz directs Gael García Bernal to his best-ever performance in this anti-biopic of Ferdinand ...

An acclaimed new film dramatises the pioneering voyage of the world-famous Portuguese navigator – a trailblazer who has been ...

Idiosyncratic indie icon Jim Jarmusch ("Dead Man"; "Paterson") brings his trademark offbeat quality and simplicity to "Father ...

As of press time, "Magellan" has gathered some 20,000 audiences on its first week after it opened in 67 theaters in France on ...