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This disc contains the set's interview bonus features: 'Interview with director Lav Diaz' (13 min), 'Interview with actor Joel Torre' (20 min), 'Interview with actor Gloria Diaz' (10 min), 'Interview with actor Art Acuña' (15 min), and 'Interview with actor Priscilla Viduya' (8 min), all recorded in 2024.

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Disc 1 contains the feature film (the complete film, from the 2K restoration). The set's interview extras are on Disc 2, which the store lists as a separate product. When young Hanzel Harana (Yul Servo) is found shot dead one winter night on West Side Avenue in Jersey City, Filipino detective Juan Mijares (Joel Torre) investigates the Filipino youth gangs who deal in shabu — crystal meth. Interviewing Hanzel's mother, who has remarried an American, his ex-soldier grandfather, and his American-born girlfriend, Mijares finds his search widening into larger questions: why so many Filipinos emigrated to this cold new land, the conditions their children grow up in, and the buried past the detective himself carries. Shot on 16mm at the turn of the millennium by a young Lav Diaz, the film is an epic about Filipino immigration across generations.

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A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Lav Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Discovery. Elegantly minimalist yet overpowering in its scale and impact, Magellan follows the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) as he embarks on his epochal quest to cross the Pacific—a voyage that spirals into zealotry and violence when he attempts to impose Christianity upon the people of the Philippines. Abetted by García Bernal’s radically antiheroic portrayal, Diaz composes a stark vision of the brutality at the heart of European conquest and a haunting elegy for a lost precolonial past. INCLUDES Meet the Filmmakers: Lav Diaz, a Criterion Channel original interview Trailer Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza

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Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, The Woman Who Left is an epic story of revenge that spans decades of Philippine history. After 30 years in prison, Horacia (CHARO SANTOS-CANCIO) discovers that her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder of which she was accused. This leads to her release and the transformative discovery of the man who framed her. Inspired by Tolstoy and directed with patience and poetry by the great Lav Diaz (Norte, the End of History), The Woman Who Left is a sensitive and transcendent expression of family and forgiveness. Special Features: Behind-the-Scenes Featurette, Booklet essay by Gil Quito, Trailer Top About this item Similar From the Brand Reviews The Woman Who Left [Blu-ray]