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

Both a valentine to Iranian cinema and an absurdist look at Winnipeg, Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin's comedy is ...

Home becomes increasingly unfamiliar and surreal in Universal Language, as Rankin's character rediscovers Winnipeg amid ...

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

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

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

Matthew Rankin, though, has gone more than a step, or maybe 85 steps, further. His “Universal Language” takes place in ...

“Universal Language” is first and foremost a testament to the shared artifice of all filmic storytelling, and to the singular ...

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

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

Cinematic nods abound in two tales of homecoming, one starring Paddington Bear and the other set somewhere between Canada and ...

“Universal Language,” directed by Matthew Rankin, is a gently funny, gently moving, slightly surrealist little comedy that’s aimed at two groups of people: Canadians, specifically but not ...