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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sometimes, when a movie emerges from a book, a crucial ingredient gets left out along the way. In the case of “Barney’s Version,” it’s the wit. Based on a rambling, time-shifting and often very funny ...

O Montreal! City of smoked meats and separatists, hockey’s Habs and Leonard Cohen. And home, of course, to Mordecai Richler, the laureate of Anglophone Quebec, who in 10 novels chronicled Jewish life ...

Making a pre-emptive move on the eve of the Toronto International Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics has acquired U.S. rights to "Barney's Version," from Canada-based producer Robert Lantos. By ...

The dizzying comic energy and intellectual vigor of Mordecai Richler’s 1997 satire have largely been drained from director Richard J. Lewis’ agreeable but inevitably lesser version of “Barney’s ...