Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matthew Rankin
Chris says: “Winnipeg native Matthew Rankin’s second feature UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE was my favorite film of 2025. Imagining a Canada colonized by Iran, it was inventive, absurd, sidesplitting and in the end, oddly affecting. One could apply those descriptors in varying
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Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Matthew Rankin
Starring: Amir Amiri | Bernard Arene | Faraz Anoushah Pour | Mani Soleymanlou | Matthew Rankin | Pirouz Nemati | Rojina Esmaeili
Chris says: “A considerable advance over Matthew Rankin’s previous weirdo-Canadian feature THE TWENTIETH CENTURY while also barely resembling it. Maybe the funniest, most original film I’ve seen in ages? Also, while not quite HUNDREDS OF TURKEYS, I was not expecting
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Rating: 4.25 cats
Director: Matthew Rankin
Starring: Brent Skagford | Catherine St-Laurent | Dan Beirne | Kee Chan | Louis Negin | Matthew Rankin | Mikhaïl Ahooja | Sarianne Cormier | Seán Cullen
Michael says: “You know you’re watching something perversely special when it features an ejaculating cactus. Paying liberal homage to the strangers films of Guy Maddin, Matthew Rankin’s first feature film is a wildly inventive, biopic (in the loosest sense of
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