The pod's maiden voyage discussing Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, and Pirouz Nemati.

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Time Stamped Notes: 

3:22 - The Twentieth Century

5:13 - High Maintenance

7:00 - The Grand Budapest Hotel

8:00 - Asteroid City, The Royal Tenenbaums and the precocious children and signage of Wes Anderson

10:23 - Brechtian Theater and drawing attention to artifice

13:30 - Agnes Varda, Sean Baker and ‘Film at the Margins’

24:00 - Winnipeg's Iranian Community

26:00 - Taste of Cherry 

27:00 - Iranian coming of age films that influenced Universal Language 

28:40 - The 180 Degree Rule that Matthew Rankin intentionally breaks

30:43 - The connections of all the characters in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia

31:25 - Macguffin

38:34 - Tim Horton’s Donut Shop 

44:53 - Iranian tradition of directors appearing in their own films and blurring the lines between fiction and reality

47:08 - (Some Of) Matthew Rankins Short Films (1) (2) 

50:50 - Public Sector Office

52:39 - David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Crimes of The Future 

53:06 - Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

1:09:05 Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018) Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Also 2018)

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