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 ...

Two British actresses and an up-and-coming Canadian have been selected to play the three wives of Barney Panofsky in Barney's Version, the screen adaptation of Mordecai Richler's novel. Producer ...

Dustin Hoffman will star alongside Paul Giamatti in Barney’s Version, an adaptation of the book of the same name by Mordecai Richler. Hoffman will play the father of Giamatti’s title character, Barney ...

The multi-layered comedy/drama Barney's Version, which stars Golden Globe-winner Paul Giamatti as the blunt, irascible Barney Panofsky, leads the field with 11 Genie nominations this year, while the ...

Essential Entertainment has inked key territory deals for Paul Giamatti topliner “Barney’s Version,” from Serendipity Point Films. Directed by Canadian filmmaker Richard J. Lewis, indie pic made its ...

Paul Giamatti is terrific in this not-unimpressive first feature film from TV director Richard J. Lewis, adapted from the book by Mordecai Richler. In fact, Giamatti is so terrific that he was ...

As far as cinematic schlubs are concerned, not many actors out there can play bitter more brilliantly than Academy Award-nominee Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man). Even those with the physical traits to ...

Paul Giamatti, dialing down his trembly-voiced neurotic energy to good effect, gives a holy hell of a performance as Barney Panofsky in Barney’s Version, the Montreal soap opera producer at the center ...

Mordecai Richler, who died in 2001, is a very big cheese in Canada. A salty and outspoken Montreal-Jewish novelist who's often compared to Saul Bellow, Richler was the dominant force in Canadian ...

Stories with jerks as protagonists can be challenging for an audience, but at least you should be able to count on a certain consistency to the jerkiness ... Stories with jerks as protagonists can be ...