“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...