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 ...

About 20 minutes into “Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story,” we think we’re watching a fairly straightforward attempt to film an impossibly digressive 18th-century novel. Squires in wigs – wot-wot?

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Being a lover of the classics is such a humorless gig, particularly when it comes to movie adaptations of great books. Late last year, the Jane Austen Society, as well as many plain old Jane Austen ...

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 ...