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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a longtime fan of the book Tristram Shandy, I was tremendously excited to see it finally brought to film, and more so as it starred one of my favorite comedians, Steve Coogan, and was being ...

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 ...

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 ...

Michael Winterbottom’s “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story” is as delightful a put-on as the movies have seen since “This Is Spinal Tap.” Rarely have a filmmaker and cast so savored the conspiracy ...

Many deem Laurence Sterne's 1759 novel Tristram Shandy to be unreadable. You might also call it unfilmable if the devilishly clever director Michael Winterbottom (24 Hour Party People) hadn't figured ...

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 ...