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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Making a “life’s journey” film must be difficult. The difficulty shows through the messy Barney’s Version. But despite its rocky structure, this adaptation of Mordecai Richler’s acclaimed novel makes ...

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 ...

As far as cinematic schlubs are concerned, not many actors out there can play bitter more brilliantly than Academy Award-nominee Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man). Even those with the physical traits to ...

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 ...

The Barney of Barney’s Version, Mordecai Richler’s 10th novel, learned to tap dance as a boy, a talent that comes in handy when he decides to write his memoirs and finds himself tap dancing – ...