In this country, Mordecai Richler is probably best-known for the 1974 movie The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, based on his novel of the same name. But, for some unaccountable reason, Richler - who ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paul Giamatti's never been high on my esteemed actors list. I don't go out of my way to see movies he's in because his characters always come off kind of schlubby to me. With "Barney's Version," ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Please note: one or two mild spoilers are in this review, in case you’ve not heard them already. If you haven’t, you might want to steer clear until you’ve seen the film. Paul Giamatti, actor par ...

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 ...

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 ...