There are three versions to every story, as the old movie mogul used to say. My version, your version — and the truth. Well, this is “Barney’s Version.” He could use someone to plead his case, too. As ...

There are three versions to every story, as the old movie mogul used to say. My version, your version -- and the truth. Well, this is "Barney's Version." He could use someone to plead his case, too.

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 ...

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 ...

Actor Paul Giamatti compares his star turn as the title character in Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version to 'doing, like, a Dickens novel or something.' ((CBC)) Shooting got underway on Barney's ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

The Barney of Barney’s Version, Mordecai Richler’s 10th novel, learned to tap dance as a boy, a talent that comes in handy when he decides to write his memoirs and finds himself tap dancing – ...

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.