BARNEY’S VERSION, a Sony Pictures Classics’ release, will screen at Guild Hall on October 7th as the Opening Night Film of the 2010 Festival!

Richard J. Lewis’ Barney’s Version, produced by Robert Lantos (Eastern Promises, Being Julia), is based on the Mordecai Richler novel. The film stars Paul Giamatti, Dustin Hoffman, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver, Rachelle Lefevre, Scott Speedman and Bruce Greenwood. Giamatti plays the titular Barney and presents a view of his life that is at times hilarious and, at others, heartbreaking. In the film, Barney Panofsky is a seemingly ordinary man who lives an extraordinary life. Barney’s candid confessional spans three decades and two continents, and includes three wives, one outrageous father (Hoffman), and a dangerously dissolute best friend (Speedman).