As a longtime fan of the book Tristram Shandy, I was tremendously excited to see it finally brought to film, and more so as it starred one of my favorite comedians, Steve Coogan, and was being ...
“Tristram Shandy: A Cock & Bull Story” isn’t the cinematic adaptation of Laurence Sterne’s “The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy.” Instead, it’s a movie about the making of a movie based on the ...
A meta-movie about a meta-novel, Michael Winterbottom’s Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story wears its conceptual mantle lightly. Based on Laurence Sterne’s 18th-century explosion of premodern ...
Michael Winterbottom's prankish literary adaptation Tristram Shandy: A Cock And Bull Story has about a dozen layers of in-joke, and up to the eighth or ninth layer, they mostly work. The movie is ...
Laurence Sterne's 18th-century novel, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Esq.," is described by Steve Coogan as a "post-modern novel written before there was a modern novel to be post." ...
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 ...
Napa Valley Register: At the Movies: 'Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story'
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.
Shandy is beer or cider mixed with a lemon flavoured beverage, usually half lemonade (a carbonated lemon-flavoured soft drink) and half beer or cider, resulting in a lower ABV for the finished drink. Shandies are popular in Europe, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the Caribbean, and Canada.