Barney's Version won the 1997 Scotiabank Giller Prize and was a Canada Reads 2004 finalist. It was defended by Zsuzsi Gartner. Terry's the spur. The splinter under my fingernail. To come clean ...

Implicitly promising “Barney’s version” of what really happened, the film flashes back to 1974 Rome (changed from Paris, likely due to the picture’s Italian funding), where Barney ...

My version, your version — and the truth. Well, this is “Barney’s Version.” He could use someone to plead his case, too. As we watch him over the course of more than 30 years, Barney burns ...

gives a holy hell of a performance as Barney Panofsky in Barney’s Version, the Montreal soap opera producer at the center of Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel, and a character who feels like a new ...

In his current film, "Barney's Version" (adapted from Mordecai ... to do this - there's that long wedding sequence and I pull my father away from the rabbi because he's talking about arresting ...

If Giamatti’s particular brand of sad-eyed misanthropy floats your boat, you’ll enjoy Barney’s Version (Sony Pictures Classics), an overcrammed and galumphing movie that nonetheless provides ...

Barney’s Version is a big sweeping comedic drama about the life and loves of one man. That man doesn’t change the world or alter the course of history but the extent to which his experiences ...

and he wrote his Barney's Version script on spec while moonlighting. "I did feel a little rusty at first," he said about returning to filmmaking. "My pace was too fast. I was like some hyperactive ...

Dustin Hoffman is stellar as Barney's aging, roguish dad, a retired cop and widower who, with charm to spare, always manages to be politically incorrect. Rosamund Pike is convincing as the ...

Barney's Version, adapted from the novel by Mordecai ... About 2am, he calls someone called Blair. ''Ask my wife what she wants me to do with all these naked pictures of her,'' he says.

I began to read Barney’s Version on an overseas flight, just prior to its publication, some 13 years ago. No doubt the passengers next to me thought I was demented. I chuckled and belly laughed ...