NEW YORK (AP) — Filmmaker Morgan Neville was determined to approach his Anthony Bourdain documentary through a prism other than the TV personality’s death. He wanted to make a celebration of Bourdain’s life. Not a forensic inquiry. Not a eulogy. “Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain” premiered over the weekend at the Tribeca Festival, days after the three-year anniversary of Bourdain’s death. Just the debut of the film’s trailer prompted an outpouring of emotion — and millions of views within just days, a rarity for a documentary. Neville says he’s come to see the film as “an act of therapy” for those that knew Bourdain up close or from afar.
Anthony Bourdain doc ‘an act of therapy’ for an acute loss
