Magellan (2025)
About this episode
The episode reviews the 2025 historical epic 'Magellan' directed by Lav Diaz, exploring its themes and impact.
Fernão de Magalhães, or if you’re a lazy, uncultured American, Ferdinand Magellan. He probably isn’t a historical figure to whom you’ve dedicated much thought lately, or, you know, ever. Magalhães’s life and achievements may not make themselves felt in your day to day life, but there’s no denying he impacted history in a significant way. The benefits or harms of that impact, however, are, like literally everything else about history, the subject of impassioned debate. Hence Magellan, a 2025 historical epic directed by Lav Diaz, a man with some pretty strong opinions on this Portuguese navigator, opinions which he rendered across almost three hours of a movie that, if nothing else, is uncompromising in its vision. This laconic, lethargic tale of colonization and violation earned little in the way of cash or broad popular notice, but the reviews were strong and Nathan thought it would be funny to review a movie which kind of shares this program’s name. But will the movie successfully circumnavigate the globe of quality and arrive safely at home to a rapturous welcome, or will it take an arrow to the face from the enraged natives of boredom and self-righteousness? Unfurl the sails…
People in this episode
Host: Nathan Magalhaes
Topics covered
- historical epic
- colonization
- film review
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Lav Diaz
- impact of history
Keywords
- Magellan
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Lav Diaz
- historical film
- colonization
- film review
- 2025
Mentioned in this episode
Books & works: Magellan
More episodes of Magellans at the Movies
Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the Magellans at the Movies podcast page.