It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto has been substituted for the Big Apple. Matthew Rankin, though, has gone ...

Still from Universal Language (2024), dir. Matthew Rankin, with Rojina Esmaeili as “Negin” (image courtesy Oscilloscope Laboratories) In Universal Language, director Matthew Rankin transforms the ...

Canada’s submission to the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for the 2024 Best International Feature was Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language.” Good luck getting into the heads of a ...

"A strange odyssey with plenty of riches." Oscilloscope Labs has revealed the first trailer for an acclaimed, one-of-a-kind film from Canada titled Universal Language, the second feature from Canadian ...

Matthew Rankin’s Farsi- and French-language offbeat homage to Iranian cinema bowed in Cannes and will also screen in Toronto. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau Chief The absurdist comedy in the Farsi and ...

It's also fun to make art with turkeys. The Farsi title, آواز بوقلمون, translates to “The Song of the Turkey,” and the reason why is emblematic of both the film’s warmly absurd sense of humor and the ...

There’s a notion in the film industry that comedies don’t travel. Jokes have a regional audience, and humor gets lost in translation, the thinking goes. But director Matthew Rankin thinks more of ...

It's not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto has been substituted for the Big Apple. Matthew Rankin, though, has gone ...