Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain

Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) is Morgan Neville's documentary you can watch online on iFILM. It traces how an anonymous New York line cook turned into a writer, a television traveler and a figure viewers felt they knew personally.

Neville follows Bourdain from the kitchens behind Kitchen Confidential to the shows that sent him around the globe with a camera and a ferocious appetite. Much of the film runs in his own voice, cut together from his programs, interviews and private tapes. The people closest to him speak too: his second wife Ottavia, chef and friend Eric Ripert, cook David Chang.

It doesn't dodge the ending — his 2018 suicide — and argues with itself about whether anyone can truly explain another person's pain. Neville, an Oscar winner for Twenty Feet from Stardom, makes less a tribute than a record of friends trying to make sense of a loss. Raw and honest, with none of the gloss of a food show. Stream Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021) online on iFILM.