“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 ...

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" star Paul Giamatti is the first to acknowledge that he isn't a typical Hollywood leading man. He may not look like his co-star Scott Speedman, but he's still managed to rack up an ...

The final novel by acclaimed Canadian author Mordecai Richler is now a motion picture starring American actor Paul Giamatti as the prickly and complex Barney Panofsky, recounting the high and low ...

Canadian producer Robert Lantos was smart to world premiere the long-gestating Barney’s Version at the Venice Film Festival instead of home-town Toronto; the book sold over over 700,000 copies in ...

Barney’s Version, the big screen adaptation of the late Mordecai Richler’s last novel, leads the pack at the 31st annual Genie Awards with 11 nominations — including nods to stars Paul Giamatti and ...

At the just-opened Venice International Film Festival, the movie "Barney's Version" is expected to be one of the leading contenders to win the highest award, the Golden Lion. The film adaptation of ...

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 ...

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 ...