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 ...

The British publishing house Visual Editions gives Laurence Sterne’s “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman” the loopy graphic treatment it deserves. Sterne, the 18th-century godfather ...

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 ...

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, directed by Michael Winterbottom, written by Martin Hardy [Frank Cottrell Boyce and Michael Winterbottom], based on the novel by Laurence Sterne Winterbottom’s ...

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 ...

THE LIFE AND OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY, GENTLEMAN, is a celebrated if largely unread 18th century comic novel. It's not your usual book. Its title character isn't born until it's third volume. It ...