An upcoming film set in the Philippines’ pre-colonial period has cast Danny Trejo as the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan. The film, “1521,” is set to depict the events leading up to the ...
When Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan circumnavigated the globe 500 years ago, he made history. Now in New Bedford, visitors can board a replica of the Nao Trinidad, a 16th-century tall ship ...
NEW BEDFORD — All aboard! For the second year in a row, the Nao Trinidad is headed back to Pope’s Island Marina. The 16th-century tall ship is a replica of the one that circumnavigated the globe with ...
Lav Diaz’s Magellan is an impossible fever dream across the seas, smuggled into the respectable body of a festival biopic. On paper, the 160-minute Cannes-premiering historical epic in colour, fronted ...
MEXICO CITY — Disease, mutinies and uncharted waters nearly sabotaged the global circumnavigation expedition led by Portuguese mariner Ferdinand Magellan. Five centuries later, a pandemic looms as a ...
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The austere poetry of Lav Diaz’s ‘Magellan’
At the turn of the century, Filipino arthouse maestro Lav Diaz began turning out films with gargantuan runtimes—sometimes seven, nine, even 10 hours in length. His latest, the leisurely, absorbing ...
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