Matthew Rankin's 'Universal Language' takes place in a surreal zone between Tehran and Winnipeg. And it makes for the most ...

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It is, Rankin said, the greatest producer of Christmas movies in the world. “I think something like 3,000 Hallmark movies are ...

Director Matthew Rankin ’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest ...

Written and directed by director Matthew Rankin, the comedy presents a Persian-language-inflected Canada, getting at timely ...

Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...

One of Canada's most idiosyncratic fantasists discusses the links between Iranian cinema, architecture, and cultural exchange ...

Director Matthew Rankin's dry, eccentric charmer features a man who sings to his turkey and something called the Winnepeg ...

Universal Language” is delightfully absurdist, with little moments in each story that both make sense yet defy expectations.

This time of year, we find ourselves in a lame-duck period on the movie calendar, with much of Hollywood’s energy directed ...

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in Winnipeg, Manitoba, but the culture is entirely Iranian. Farsi is the ...

There’s not one word in English, not even “Do you speak English?” Filmmaker Matthew Rankin is a Canadian history scholar who switched tracks from academia to art. Maybe there’s something ...