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 ...

Tehran meets Winnipeg in what Rankin described as an "autobiographical hallucination" through cinema, and it won the Audience Award in Cannes Directors' Fortnight this year. There is nothing lost in ...

Universal Language, the original and quietly funny Oscar-shortlisted Cannes and TIFF premiering feature by Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin debuts on one screen each in New York and LA. Chinese ...

B efore the word “franchise” meant superheroes and crossovers, Universal Pictures built an empire of the undead. The studio’s ...