It's no surprise it took 13 years to bring Mordecai Richler's last novel, Barney's Version, to the screen. The book, with its erudite, unreliable narrator, who is justifying his life through a fog of ...

This impeccably cast confessional, with a pitch-perfect Paul Giamatti leading the way, nimbly traverses the four decades in its lead character's eventful life with considerable exuberance, visual ...

The pitfalls of literary adaptation, as well as a few of its potential rewards, are on display in this long-brewing screen translation of Canadian writer Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel. A rambling ...

It's not often directors David Cronenberg and Atom Egoyan get a tongue-lashing from their producers. But last week - on set in Montreal to shoot cameos in the upcoming feature film Barney's Version - ...

Barney Panofsky (Giamatti, by no means stretching here, but he knows this kind of lovable schlub inside and out, and delivers) is the subject of the film. The character was described in the Vancouver ...

Adapted from Mordecai Richler’s fictional autobiography by Barney Panofsky, “Barney’s Version” tells the life story of a thrice-married Canadian soap opera producer suspected of murdering his best ...

Michael Konyves, the Montreal screenwriter who brought Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version to the screen, has won a Writers Guild of Canada award for his work. The WGC presented its annual awards for ...

Do you still laugh whenever you remember Paul Giamatti in Sideways, taking Thomas Haden Church aside to hiss the warning, “I am NOT drinking any fucking Merlot”? If Giamatti’s particular brand of ...

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The spirit(s) of Mordecai Richler’s antic novel have been captured in this freewheeling adaptation. Paul Giamatti channels both Richler and Barney, the thrice-married anti-hero who goes from wife to ...

Paul Giamatti doesn't spring right to mind as the guy to play the title character of Mordecai Richler's sardonically funny and bitterly sad novel "Barney's Version." After seeing director Richard J.

MONTREAL Up for a little literary tourism? Walk a mile in Barney Panofsky’s shoes. He’s the main character in Mordecai Richler’s acclaimed novel Barney’s Version, which will be hitting the big screen ...