Producer Robert Lantos hailed late Canadian writer Mordecai Richler's satirical voice Friday as the film version of Barney's Version premiered in Venice. Barney's Version is one of Richler's most ...

In a continuing quest to uncover why Italy, of all the countries in the world, fell so deeply in love with Mordecai Richler's novel Barney's Version (after receiving many classically Italian shrugs by ...

Robert Lantos, Canada’s most prolific movie producer, has landed in Venice for Friday’s world premiere of his crowning achievement, Barney’s Version. Based on Mordecai Richler’s 1997 Giller Prize ...

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 ...

VENICE, ItalyVENICE, Italy — ‘Barney’s Version,’ which made its debut at the Venice Film Festival’s last main day, spans four decades in the life of a flawed man and took 10 years to reach the screen.

ROME—Sofia Coppola’s comic drama “Somewhere,” Darren Aronofsky’s “Black Swan,” and the Canadian/Italian film “Barney’s Version” will make their world premieres at the Venice film festival. Festival ...

Scott Speedman, left, and Paul Giamatti are shown in a scene from Barney's Version, set for its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. ((CBC)) Barney's Version, the movie based on Mordecai ...

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 film, the last to screen in the main competition at the festival ahead of Saturday's awards ceremony, casts Paul Giamatti as Barney Panofsky, the irreverent hero of Canadian author Mordecai ...