Michael Winterbottom's latest comedy is Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story. It's based on an experimental comic novel from the 18th century. The movie is as tricky as its source material. THE LIFE ...

“The idea of art as an expensive hunk of well-regulated area, both logical and magical,” wrote film critic Manny Farber in his essay, “White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art,” “sits heavily over the ...

Laurence Sterne's insanely digressive 18th century novel "Tristram Shandy" once looked about as likely to be filmed as "Finnegans Wake" or the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Cheating flagrantly, helmer ...

Of course, if anyone were cocky and bullheaded enough to film Laurence Sterne’s supposedly unfilmable literary romp “Tristram Shandy,” it would have to be Michael Winterbottom. Then again, the ...

“Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story” adapts the unadaptable 1753 novel by Laurence Sterne, but only just. It’s a droll British comedy about the making of a movie based on “The Life and Opinions of ...

Questions for the Movie Answer Man: Q. You claim in discussing the new movie “Tristram Shandy” that you have never met anyone who finished the novel. When I was an English major at Barnard College in ...

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Martin Hardy [Frank Cottrell Boyce and Michael Winterbottom], based on the novel by Laurence Sterne Winterbottom’s ...

I first learned about Laurence Sterne’s novel Tristram Shandy as a senior in college. It was a book that carried a strange aura, not the awe-inspiring reverence of the canon but more of a “wait and ...

Director Michael Winterbottom Newmarket Films 3 stars “‘Fear Eats the Soul,’ there’s more truth in that title than most whole films.” Would hearing a pretentious Production Assistant declaiming these ...