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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The multi-layered comedy/drama Barney's Version, which stars Golden Globe-winner Paul Giamatti as the blunt, irascible Barney Panofsky, leads the field with 11 Genie nominations this year, while the ...

Barney’s Version, which is playing on only seven screens across Canada, has already rung up $472,892 at the cash register, which is a great result for a Canadian film. It is doing particularly well ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.