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 ...

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 ...

Finding love has never really been a problem for Barney. Having been married once before, he thinks his marriage to 'the second Mrs P' is going to be it, he's finally ready to settle down. After all, ...

West Acres 14 Rated R for language and some sexual content 132 minutes 2.5 out of 4 stars Paul Giamatti, the unlikeliest leading man of his generation, is perfectly cast in "Barney's Version," an ...

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 ...

Before its launch in Venice and Toronto Fest, Sony Pictures Classics has scooped up Barney’s Version. Based on Mordecai Richler’s acclaimed comic novel and directed by Richard J. Lewis, the film’s ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Acclaimed Canadian author Mordecai Richler's last and arguably greatest novel, "Barney's Version," has been transformed into a highly entertaining and arguably the most ...

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 ...

“She doesn’t much look like me,” Pike says of Miriam. “She’s much more centered than me and she’s just steady. I am not steady.” Miriam, the third wife of the unsettled, neurotic Barney (Paul Giamatti ...

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, ...