It's no surprise it took 13 years to bring Mordecai Richler's last novel, Barney's Version, to the screen. The book, with its erudite, unreliable narrator, who is justifying his life through a fog of ...

Mordecai Richler was among Canada's most prolific writers, a gifted man with a knack for creating eccentric characters he made us care about despite their many flaws. He was nominated for an Academy ...

Movies, which respond so easily to the sudden breaking and reforming of time, often struggle with the sheer mass of the life tale, be it real or imagined, and the literary structure of Richler’s book ...