‘Universal Language’ Director Matthew Rankin Wants Everyone to Make Art with Their Friends
Director Matthew Rankin ’s odyssey through a Winnipeg dotted with homages to Iranian film history — and featuring the coziest ...
Moreno introduces bill to designate English as U.S. official language
Currently, the United States does not have an official language, though English is the most commonly used language in the ...
Macaques appear to associate spoken words with pictures
One of the most important cognitive foundations of human language is our ability to develop associations between the ...
How Matthew Rankin’s ‘Universal Language’ creates a fantastical version of reality
Using real stories from the filmmaker’s life, he and his Iranian co-writers Ila Firouzabad and Pirouz Nemati create a world ...
Bill would make English official language in US
Moreno’s bill, called the English Language Unity Act of 2025, would mandate that all official functions of the U.S. government be conducted in English and require applicants for U.S. citizenship to ...
Ohio Senator introduces bill to make English the official language of the United States
An Ohio Senator has introduced a bill to make English the official language of the United States. Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH) introduced a new bill to designate English as the official language of ...
'It's long past time': Colombian-born GOP senator rallies around making English official language of US
Ohio GOP Bernie Moreno, elected in November, has reintroduced the English Language Unity Act, which would make English the ...
‘Universal Language' Review: Guy Maddin Meets Abbas Kiarostami in a Deadpan Canadian Fable
Described by writer-director Matthew Rankin as a piece of "autobiographical hallucination," this wonderfully deadpan whatsit is the work of a white 43-year-old Canadian man who fe ...