Guest Programmer: Anthony Bourdain - 4/10
In addition to being a
renowned chef, best-selling
author and television
personality with a flair for the
outrageous, Anthony
Bourdain is a self-described
film nerd with an "evangelical"
fervor about movies he loves.
Currently the host of the
Travel Channel's Anthony
Bourdain: No Reservations
and The Layover, he has
written such bestsellers as
Kitchen Confidential (2000)
and Medium Raw (2010).
As this month's Guest Programmer, Bourdain tells TCM host Robert Osborne that he considers the John Ford Western The Searchers (1956) to be "a great American film by maybe our greatest director." Bourdain calls the French thriller Eyes Without a Face (1960) "beautiful yet disturbing" and says the crime film Get Carter (1971) is "sharp-edged" and "remorselessly unforgiving," with a lead performance by Michael Caine that makes "no concession to likeability." The British comedy Withnail and I (1987) is "a cult classic in the truest sense of the word" that Bourdain finds "searingly funny."
As this month's Guest Programmer, Bourdain tells TCM host Robert Osborne that he considers the John Ford Western The Searchers (1956) to be "a great American film by maybe our greatest director." Bourdain calls the French thriller Eyes Without a Face (1960) "beautiful yet disturbing" and says the crime film Get Carter (1971) is "sharp-edged" and "remorselessly unforgiving," with a lead performance by Michael Caine that makes "no concession to likeability." The British comedy Withnail and I (1987) is "a cult classic in the truest sense of the word" that Bourdain finds "searingly funny."
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