Playing Anthony Bourdain? Dominic Sessa Has No Reservations

Playing Anthony Bourdain? Dominic Sessa Has No Reservations

Dominic Sessa on portraying Anthony Bourdain as a young man in the new biopic ‘Tony.’

'Tony' Review: Becoming Anthony Bourdain

A new biopic serves up a portrait of the chef as a young man.

‘Tony’ Isn’t a Biopic. It’s Superhero Coming-of-Age Fan Fiction

Anthony Bourdain summed up his late teens in a typically eloquent, withering fashion: “I was,” he wrote in his bestselling memoir Kitchen Confidential, “a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, badly in need of a good ass-kicking.” That self-deprecating description opens Tony, writer-director Matt Johnson’s movie about the one crazy summer that changed a thoughtless young lout’s life; for good measure, the…

Before the Name Meant Anything: A Portrait of Anthony Bourdain as a Young Disaster

There's a quote that opens Tony, pulled from Anthony Bourdain's own words, that sets the terms of everything to follow: "I was, to be frank, a spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive and thoughtless young lout, and badly in need of a good ass-kicking." It's the kind of opening declaration that immediately tells you what kind of biopic this will be, which is to say, not the kind that typically gets made. Matt Johnson, along with writer…

‘Tony’ just a nibble of the story of chief Anthony Bourdain

“TONY” is the story of “modern culinary giant” (A24). By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer “Tony,” the Anthony Bourdain biopic, is a coming-of-age tale for a modern culinary giant. Set over just a summer, it’s also clearly an appetizer. And like all first courses, it leaves you with a nice first taste — but still hungry. Director and co-writer Matt Johnson has frustratingly taken liberties with a formative period in Bourdain’s life, but still…