After premiering out of competition at Cannes, writer-director Lav Diaz‘s historical drama Magellan, starring Gael García Bernal as the Portuguese explorer, has been acquired by Janus Films in a deal ...

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 ...

Weighing in at a mere 160 minutes, in saturated color to balance out its aesthetic severity, this stark epic is among the Filipino auteur's shortest and most approachable films. Which is to say that ...

Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s feature about devastation wreaked by European conquistadors in the Pacific debuted in Cannes. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief Bernal as a despotic and at times ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Of all the filmmakers who could possibly make headlines, Lav Diaz did at the New York Film Festival: The Filipino auteur of such ...

“Magellan” opens with a young girl looking through a dense thicket of foliage and spotting something alarming. “I saw a white man,” she tells the residents of her remote island village in the ...

Janus Films has acquired another movie from the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, this time in Lav Diaz’s historical drama “Magellan.” The film stars Gael García Bernal as the Portuguese explorer and ...

At the dawn of the modern era, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan leads an expedition under the Spanish crown in search of the first westward route to the Spice Islands. He embarks on a perilous ...

Norte stands as something of an oddity in Diaz’s filmography now; he used professional equipment and shot in 2.39 color, as opposed to his typically 1.85 or 4:3 black-and-white images, and employed ...