‘Tony’ Was Dreamed Up at Anthony Bourdain’s Favorite Dive Bar From His Youth

Writers Todd Bartels and Lou Howe went to Provincetown to retrace the steps Bourdain took as a directionless young man. A few years later, they were on set watching it all come back to life.

Independents posted impressive numbers this weekend, another good one for moviegoing but competitive with blockbuster commercial films in the marketplace. Tony and Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma are notable newcomers with CatVideoFest 2026 landing in the top 10 and a sweet debut for doc Cookie Queens. A24’s Tony

For most actors, playing a real person in a biopic comes with an unrealistic amount of pressure. But because Matt Johnson decided to focus on just one summer in 19-year-old Anthony Bourdain’s life — long before the famed chef-turned-writer ever wrote “Kitchen Confidential” or became a household name — “Tony” star Domin

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Matt Johnson on making ‘Tony,’ the Anthony Bourdain biopic  Toronto Star

The protagonists of two films, an Anthony Bourdain bio-pic and a drama about a neglected poet, find themselves struggling with their writerly destinies.

The movie stars Dominic Sessa as a 19-year-old Bourdain—“spoiled, miserable, narcissistic, self-destructive, and thoughtless,” in the writer’s own words—decades before he became a celebrated memoirist and TV host. But just how much of Tony is true?

Matt Johnson's captivating origin story details the bumpy rise of a ne’er-do-well who made good

After his breakthrough in The Holdovers in 2023, Sessa has gone back to the 70s again for Tony, the biopic of bad-boy chef and Kitchen Confidential author Bourdain. And, he says, a big part of him would like to stay there Despite being just 23, Dominic Sessa is perhaps as intimately acquainted with the 1970s as those w