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The pod's maiden voyage discussing Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, and Pirouz Nemati.Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on instagram, @TicketsSecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us [email protected] Stamped Notes: 3:22 - The Twentieth Century5:13 - High Maintenance7:00 - The Grand Budapest Hotel8:00 - Asteroid City, The Royal Tenenbaums and the precocious children and signage of Wes Anderson10:23 - Brechtian Theater and drawing attention to artifice13:30 - Agnes Varda, Sean Baker and ‘Film at the Margins’24:00 - Winnipeg's Iranian Community26:00 - Taste of Cherry 27:00 - Iranian coming of age films that influenced Universal Language 28:40 - The 180 Degree Rule that Matthew Rankin intentionally breaks30:43 - The connections of all the characters in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia31:25 - Macguffin38:34 - Tim Horton’s Donut Shop 44:53 - Iranian tradition of directors appearing in their own films and blurring the lines between fiction and reality47:08 - (Some Of) Matthew Rankins Short Films (1) (2) 50:50 - Public Sector Office52:39 - David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Crimes of The Future 53:06 - Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl1:09:05 Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018) Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Also 2018)Matthew Rankin Interviews: Q With Tom Power & For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com
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