Multi-hyphenate Matthew Rankin's low-budget, high-concept recounting of political life in the Dominion of Canada circa the turn of the twentieth century is both satiric and scurrilous. Like Maddin, ...
In Matthew Rankin’s visually exuberant film, a candidate for prime minister copes with fascism and fetishism in a bizarro-world version of Canada’s past. By Nicolas Rapold When you purchase a ticket ...
This psychedelic reinvention of the formative years of former Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King hits virtual cinemas November 20. Part German Expressionist throwback, part tripped-out midnight ...
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'Century' is filled with delightfully improbable madcap action, flamboyant musical numbers and polished, inventive choreography by Warren Carlyle. There's even an adorable quartet of tap-dancing ...
On July 31, 1903, a letter addressed to President Theodore Roosevelt arrived at the White House. It had been mailed from the town of Bainbridge, Georgia, the prosperous seat of a cotton county perched ...
Genres are the Sirens of literary criticism. They seem friendly and alluring, but they are dangerously elusive shape-shifters. You really have to lash yourself to the mast. There is also the problem ...
Director Matthew Rankin's debut 'The Twentieth Century' took home the Best Canadian First Feature prize in Toronto. By Jordan Mintzer If you thought the sight of Justin Trudeau wearing his favorite ...