Universal Language” — 3.5 stars It’s not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long ...

It's not unusual for a city to double for another metropolis in movies. New Yorkers have long been able to spot when Toronto ...

The young filmmaker had little access to cinema growing up in remote rural China, but thanks to a friend's cache of classics ...

Imagine a land between Tehran and Winnipeg. Now go find yourself. Matthew Rankin’s “Universal Language” takes place in this unnamed land between the two cities and somewhere between the cultures of ...

MK2 Films, the Paris-based indie banner behind 'Anatomy of a Fall,' has appointed former Kinology executive Emmanuel Pisarra ...

Abbas Kiarostami wasn’t the first Iranian director to explore these binaries, often by using moviemaking itself as a ...

This year, for the second time in succession, a woman, brilliant French actress Juliette Binoche, would head the prestigious ...

The esteemed Criterion Collection's releases for May are fire: new and old entries by Abbas Kiarostami, Charles Burnett, Bruce Robinson and more.

A valentine to Iranian cinema and an absurdist look at Winnipeg, Matthew Rankin's comedy is indescribable — so "lo-fi masterpiece" will have to do.

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

A lightly satirical and surrealist comedy imagines the snowy Canadian city in the style of the Iranian New Wave.

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