The late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler, best known south of the border for the film version of his 1959 novel The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, was a bellicose practitioner of Jewish fiction in ...

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 ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A bittersweet comedy premiering at the Venice film festival brings to the big screen the cult book "Barney's Version," the witty story of a politically incorrect Jewish man spanning ...

So it’s true, Paul Giamatti won a surprise Golden Globe award for his star turn in the new movie, Barney’s Version. The surprise wasn’t that he was awarded – he turns in an excellent performance – but ...

LOS ANGELES /*"Barney's Version"*/ is based on a prize-winning comic novel spanning many years in one man's life. Barney, played by /*Giamatti*/, is in love for the first time in his life. Problem is ...

So far the year's best title goes to the wry drama “Barney's Version,” so direct is its meaning and yet so elusive is its promise. The film, based on a novel by acclaimed Canadian writer Mordecai ...

Producer Robert Lantos spent 13 years trying to make a movie of Mordechai Richler’s final novel, though the single best day may have been when he signed Paul Giamatti to play the grouchy, ...

Actor Paul Giamatti (Sideways, American Splendor) has had the most varied career of any actor of his generation. Comedy to drama, Howard Stern's boss to President John Adams. He discusses that and his ...

Barney’s Version misses every opportunity for raucous, picaresque fun that the book throws its way while squandering a wealth of transatlantic performing talent led by Paul Giamatti. Richler was a ...