Johan A. Ilagan ♒️

We pass the time of day to forget how time passes

[Johan A. Ilagan ♒️ @YoItsYohan]

Maroon
You’re Losing Me
Mastermind

[Zain @cowboylikezain]

in honor of midnights’ anniversary, what are your top 3 songs on the album?

[Johan A. Ilagan ♒️ @YoItsYohan]

Getting closer to that Oscar dream! 🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

Fancy seeing MAGELLAN making it to Gold Derby’s 15 Best International Film predictions (experts and users combined)! The Philippines has never been shortlisted at the Oscars before, and if there’s any filmmaker fit to end that drought, it’s Lav Diaz. 🇵🇭 Fingers crossed!

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

Fancy seeing MAGELLAN making it to Gold Derby’s 15 Best International Film predictions (experts and users combined)! The Philippines has never been shortlisted at the Oscars before, and if there’s any filmmaker fit to end that drought, it’s Lav Diaz. 🇵🇭 Fingers crossed!

[Johan A. Ilagan ♒️ @YoItsYohan]

Magnolia

[Matt Neglia @NextBestPicture]

What is your favorite Paul Thomas Anderson film?

[Chicago Int'l Film Festival @chifilmfest]

110+ features. 70 shorts. From 60+ countries. Over 11 days. At 7 venues across Chicago.

All at the 61st #ChiFilmFest.

Individual tickets on sale Friday.

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

Willem Dafoe recalls taking part in the 1986 People Power Revolution in the Philippines while filiming ‘Platoon.’

[ClickTheCity @ctctweets]

Lav Diaz’s Magellan is haunting, gorgeously shot, and deeply cerebral.

“The film demands your attention and immersion.” — Wanggo Gallaga

🇵🇭 The Philippines’ entry to the 98th Academy Awards.
Now showing in cinemas.

https://t.co/Jr6s4hbVxk

[Ryan Swen/孫天行/Sun Tien-hsing @swen_ryan]

MAGELLAN: Uses its multitude of incident and this particular era of desperation in its central figure’s life as an evocation of the various forms of power; Diaz’s cold control amid the historical epic scale is invigorating, expansive while remaining resolutely his own work.

[Doug Markowitz @DougMarkowitz]

MAGELLAN: The conquistador’s journey from the dark ports of Europe to demise among the palms of Cebu. Diaz portrays the trip with painterly images and striking realism, down to the bloodlust and hubris of the Europeans and the awful tedium of the long boat ride. #NYFF63 @TheNYFF

[mike leigh made it @MadelineOstdick]

lav diaz’s magellan is a gorgeous funereal lament for the faithful slain (colonizer & colonized), crying out for their absent god(s) from unforgettable tableaus of death, staged against an indifferent natural world. the scenes at sea were almost painfully beautiful. #NYFF63

[ShadeTV 🎥 Marissa Hill @ShadeTV]

Magellan is Filipino director Lav Diaz’s most accessible work yet (it’s not 10 hours long, it’s just under 3), a stark rebuke of Magellan’s navigational legacy and a powerful statement of colonialism’s horrors. It’s a historical genre masterpiece - even if not entirely historically accurate - with long, luscious takes meant to immerse and confront.

Far from being an action-packed swashbuckler, Magellan rewards patience and curiosity.

@TheNYFF @janusfilms

#NYFF #Magellan

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

Lav Diaz's MAGELLAN, the Philippines' Oscar entry, is coming to the 61st Chicago International Film Festival as part of the Spotlight program.

Screening dates at AMC NEWCITY 04, Screen 4:
- October 24, 1:15PM
- October 26, 2:30PM

Don't miss out!

[Johan A. Ilagan ♒️ @YoItsYohan]

Carl Papa’s The Missing. It’s such a cool and inspired choice. We showed the world that we are capable of creating a quality animated film.

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

Which of the Philippines' official Oscar entries in the last 10 years is your favorite? 🇵🇭

2025: Magellan
2024: And So it Begins
2023: The Missing
2022: On the Job: The Missing 8
2020: Mindanao
2019: Verdict
2018: Signal Rock
2017: Birdshot
2016: Ma'Rosa
2015: Heneral Luna

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

Which of the Philippines' official Oscar entries in the last 10 years is your favorite? 🇵🇭

2025: Magellan
2024: And So it Begins
2023: The Missing
2022: On the Job: The Missing 8
2020: Mindanao
2019: Verdict
2018: Signal Rock
2017: Birdshot
2016: Ma'Rosa
2015: Heneral Luna

[Johan A. Ilagan ♒️ @YoItsYohan]

Galing galing ni broww ☺️

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

I just discovered that I was quoted in a Rolling Stone article earlier this year. ROLLING STONE. Wild!

Re: “Filipino Filmmakers on the Hard Truth of an Oscar Campaign” 👉 https://t.co/ZonDZQ8PtC

[Dennis Buckly @Playbuck_PH]

🇵🇭 Lav Diaz's MAGELLAN, the Philippines' Oscar entry, has been earning critical raves from its Cannes premiere to its recent TIFF run.

Next major stops:
- New York Film Festival (9-10, 13 October)
- London Film Festival (11-12 October)

Don't miss out. The buzz is REAL.

[Inquirer @inquirerdotnet]

Carl Papa on ‘Magellan’s’ Oscars voyage, Cinemalaya short ‘The Next 24 Hours’ https://t.co/HQgX8TXSW6

[Neil Bahadur @NeilBahadur]

https://t.co/V1H0CBsoAm

Love this guys review of Diaz's Magellan from Cannes. Guy was having the time of his life

[Josh Lewis @thejoshl]

10 movies deep at #TIFF25 on Day 3 and so far I can safely say my favorites thus far have been Lav Diaz' Magellan, Kleber Mendonça Filho's The Secret Agent, Jafar Panahi's It Was Just an Accident and Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice!