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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He may be small in stature but, in a Golden Globe-winning performance, Paul Giamatti manages to lift this cumbersome adaptation of Mordecai Richler's book with effortless style. As the eponymous TV ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...