“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Most men in movies are jerks. The typical Hollywood hero is drunk, disheveled and disloyal. But if he looks like Bradley Cooper, all is forgiven. Paul Giamatti has been an antidote to such pretty-boy ...

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 ...

Giamatti’s Barney Panofsky is an odd sort of guy, from his days as a kind of poor man's bon vivant, rollicking with carefree friends in Rome, right to his last days as a successful, hard-drinking ...

TORONTO (Hollywood Reporter) - Look for a smackdown between French- and English-Canadian directors at next month's Genies, Canada's film awards. "Barney's Version," with 11 nominations, will face off ...

Stories with jerks as protagonists can be challenging for an audience, but at least you should be able to count on a certain consistency to the jerkiness ... Stories with jerks as protagonists can be ...

VENICE (Reuters) - A bittersweet comedy premiering at the Venice film festival brings to the big screen the cult book "Barney's Version," the witty story of a politically incorrect Jewish man spanning ...

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 ...

Based on a novel by Mordecai Richler, this is a showcase for the talents of Paul Giamatti. He plays Barney Panofsky, a TV producer who marries often, yet only falls in love once, and is accused of the ...

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 ...