New Biopic Tony Looks at Anthony Bourdain's Life Before Fame

Tony releases today: Recalling Anthony Bourdain’s impact on how we watched food and travel

Tony releases on August 21, starring Dominic Sessa as Anthony Bourdain and Antonio Banderas. We examine how Bourdain changed food and travel writing, from Kitchen Confidential to Parts Unknown.

New biopic Tony looks at Anthony Bourdain's life before fame

The reason that most biopics fail is because they try to do too much, telling a “cradle-to-grave” story or one taking place over a long period of time that only scratches the surface of understanding the full measure of a particular person. A better approach is the one taken in the new film Tony, which uses a formative period of time in the life of Anthony Bourdain to identify a larger truth about him.

‘Tony’ review: A food critic finds flaws in the new Bourdain biopic

Anthony Bourdain’s memoir “Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly” gave a human face — and heart, and soul, and sense of humor, and often-foul mouth — to the previously unsung heroes of restaurant kitchens. Bourdain “didn’t want to ‘rip…

‘Tony’ gives us an appetizing look at Anthony Bourdain’s bildungsroman

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Happier, Stupider Times revisits Bourdain’s formative summers in Provincetown as A24’s new film TONY brings the same chapter of his life to the big screen. Long before Anthony Bourdain was… The post Anthony Bourdain’s New A24 Book Happier, Stupider Times and Film TONY Revisit His Provincetown Years appeared first on SWAGGER Magazine.