“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 ...

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.

“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 ...

Okay, bear with me for a minute: This is a film about a real novel, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman—a 700-plus page behemoth written in the late 1700s. Seriously, pay attention: ...

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 ...

IT IS FITTING THAT a picaresque 18th-century masterpiece as defiantly singular as Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy should serve as the wellspring of a singular 21st century cinematic wonder called ...

Laurence Sterne's "Tristram Shandy," published in 1759, was said to be impossible to film, because there's no story: It begins with Tristram's conception and finishes with his birth so that he still ...