Somewhere well into the nearly three-hour epic film Magellan, screened recently at the Austin Film Society Cinema, it dawned on me what the film’s director Lav Diaz was up to. The 2025 film traces the ocean-borne circumnavigation of the globe by Ferdinand Magellan from 1518 to 1522, a feat considered so heroic that his surname lives on through the ages. A few things named after him are the straits he successfully navigated at the southern tip of…
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