Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (Picturehouse) is one of the most successful literary adaptations I’ve ever seen. It’s also one of the most wildly unfaithful to its source. This paradox—that ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 "Tristram Shandy," published in 1759, was said to be impossible to film, because there's no story: It begins with Tristram's conception and finishes with his birth so that he still ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter A is for Action. Nor a word you associate with Tristram Shandy. For every inch forward taken by the plot, there are 15 miles of ...