A Cock and Bull Story

Has anyone ever truly read The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman? Does anyone know what the hell it's supposed to be about? For that matter, does this review have a spoiler? Does it make sense that a scene depicting... Full review

Tristram Shandy, the complex novel, by Laurence Sterne, comes to the screen thanks to the adaptation and direction of Micahel Winterbottom, a man that likes to take risks. The idea of mixing the goings on of a film being made based... Full review

A film so post-post-postmodern that Steve Coogan steps out of the screen and hits on your girlfriend in the theater lobby -- I won't say if this is true or not -- Tristram Shandy is a meticulously controlled work that, despite... Full review

How do you film an unfilmable book? Well, you can either make it up as you go along, as David Cronenberg did with Naked Lunch, or you take this approach and make a film about a film crew making a film... Full review

One of the funniest and strangest films about the film-making process, this is less an adaptation of the novel, more a focused and hilarious deconstruction on Winterbottom's working methods. Coogan and Brydon are fantastic. The scene with Coogan and a hot... Full review

Michael Winterbottom's movie is an Altmanesque production depicting an English crew shooting Laurence's Sterne's eccentric eighteenth-century literary classic. It begins wittily and appropriately with Steve Coogan exchanging mocking banter with costar Rob Bryden, and then Coogan, with cosmetically enlarged and crooked... Full review

Just saw this at the New York Film Festival, where it was met with the wild enthusiasm and raucous laughter it so fully deserves. I intentionally avoided reading any reviews before I went, as I was so curious to see how... Full review

Smart, funny, original. I just saw this at the Toronto Film Festival tonight, and was really impressed. Great and hilarious performances, especially by Steve Coogan, who is SO funny. But Rob Brydon is almost as great, and the two of them... Full review

Went to see the premiere in North Yorkshire and it was absolutely brilliant!!!Much better and much funnier than I ever expected as I had anticipated quite a complex 'drama' type storyline based on my feeble attempts to read the book. It... Full review

Only a supremely confident filmmaker would attempt the double helix of setting a fake and funny 18th century autobiography inside a contemporary filmmaking venture.....There are some wonderfully funny moments, including the sight of Coogan (as yet-to-be-born Shandy) hanging upside down in a synthetic, see-through man-made womb.....Steve Coogan is the perfect choice to play an insecure actor;....Adventurous, ambitious and downright quirky, this will appeal to those who revel in more than a little bite in the ... Full Review

Not sure of how to respond, they play it safe and say that the battle scene was quite good, only to be shot down with a Shite. The most remarkable thing related to this movie, strangely enough, is its website . It was shite from beginning to end. ... Full Review

should Brydon, equally genius and generous in his comedy, playing a passive-aggressive second banana to Coogan's handsome, egotistical and kind of cringe-worthy figure.....Winterbottom likes a challenge.....It's actually a moving story of redemption, book-ended by some of the funniest improvisation you're likely to see on film this year..... ... Full Review

, Winterbottom once again turns standard cinema on its head.....His bitter rants against the other actors-most notably Rob Brydon as Uncle Toby-make him childlike in the midst of this sophisticated project.....The inner world of the actors blends easily into the real film and gives us a lot of clever, improvised comedy.....Luckily the cast is hugely talented.....To describe him as eclectic would be an understatement.... ... Full Review

while Brydon frets about the yellowness of his teeth.....he lands on his feet, but his intelligent performance.... ... Full Review

Toronto International Film Festival TORONTO--Prolific English filmmaker Michael Winterbottom, whose recent output has run the gamut from "A Mighty Heart" to "Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story" to the x-rated "9 Songs," continues to explore his versatility with "Genova,"... ... Full Article

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Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story -- Michael Winterbottom's bawdy behind-the-scenes comedy neatly straddles antiquated fantasy and contemporary reality. It focuses on a rag-tag bunch of 21st-century filmmakers tackling Laurence Stern's complicated 18th-century comic novel "The Life and Opinions... ... Full Article

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Coogan and Brydons commentary done as their pure, not semi-, selves proves that sustained improvisation can quickly become comedy waffle. Scene Extensions contains some snipped-out gems, while the premiere featurette is funnier than most promos and offers the chance to... ... Full Article

"The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman."It's the sort of book many of us own and hope others see on the bookshelf when they come over for dinner. ... Full Article