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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story Quite simply, Tristram Shandy is the funniest film at this year's festival, and one of the best and most enjoyable movies we've seen so far this year. Director ...

With this split-level spectacle, Winterbottom generates an almost delirious atmosphere by making us breathe two different sorts of heady fume: postmodernism and celebrity Laurence Sterne has a heroic ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dir: Michael Winterbottom. UK. 2005. 91mins. Michael Winterbottom's deliriously funny film-about-a-filmof 18th century novel Tristram Shandy is the prolific director's mostenjoyable feature to date.