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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More details about Lantos's Barney's Version film, based on Richler's final award-winning novel, also emerged in industry papers and other media. To be co-produced by Serendipity Point Films and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Barney Panofsky is alone in his apartment in Montreal. He can't sleep because he can't remember the name of the thing you strain ...

Giamatti, who starred in that latter film, plays Barney Panofsky, a successful television producer whose company, Totally Unnecessary Productions, makes terrible soap operas that appear to be most ...