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The episode discusses the film 'Tony', a loose adaptation of Anthony Bourdain's memoir 'Kitchen Confidential', featuring insights from guest Tim Carman.

This week, Washington Post food reporter Tim Carman joins Sophie and Rudi to discuss “ Tony ,” A24’s loose adaptation of Anthony Bourdain’s breakout 2000 memoir “ Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly .” The film, directed and co-written by Canadian filmmaker Matt Johnson (“Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie”), stars Dominic Sessa (“The Holdovers”) as a young Bourdain — before he became the beloved writer, chef and TV host. Antonio Banderas, comedian Stavros Halikias, Emilia Jones (“Coda”) and Leo Woodall (“The White Lotus”) co-star in the coming-of-age story. “Tony” is based on about 50 pages of “Kitchen Confidential” (along with an episode of Bourdain’s CNN series “ Parts Unknown ”) and depicts a 1975 summer Bourdain spent working in a kitchen as a dishwasher while living in Provincetown, Mass. Before getting into the film, Sophie and Rudi discuss meeting up in New York City (00:01:25) and Rudi shares some cinematic experiences from his trip, including a screening of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s new adaptation of Honobu Yonezawa’s 2021 novel “The Samurai and the Prisoner” (00:05:21). Then Sophie and Rudi detail their history with Bourdain (00:07:41) and…

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