“It was true, as the doctor said, that Ivan Ilych’s physical sufferings were terrible, but worse than the physical sufferings were his mental sufferings which ...

Over the three decades we see during Barney's Version, Paul Giamatti ferociously indulges in every unsavory quality you can imagine in a man without actually inciting us to hate him. Barney Panofsky ...

Some people like movies where stuff happens. But some of us prefer movies that focus on the people the stuff happens to. Movies like "Barney's Version," a reelin'-in-the-years chronicle of the ...

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’s Version” nabbed 11 Genie awards nominations, the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television announced Wednesday at simultaneous media conferences in Montreal and Toronto. It’s closely ...

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 - ...

The film Barney's Version, a longtime labour of love for Canadian filmmaker Robert Lantos, has won the Golden Box Office Award. Screenwriter Michael Konyves and director Richard J. Lewis accepted the ...

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 ...

A middle-tier marriage drama distinguished by an excellent Paul Giamatti. Richler’s tome takes the form of Barney’s memoir (written in response to a nemesis’ slanderous allegations), allowing the ...

The unmistakable voice of Mordecai Richler comes to us in Barney's Version, a raunchy yet tender account of a 67-year-old man's look back over his life — a life that includes plenty of bad behaviour.

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 ...