ROADRUNNER: A FILM ABOUT ANTHONY BOURDAIN

USA 2021 - DCP - 118 minutes

In English

Director: Morgan Neville

Producers: Morgan Neville, Catrin Rogers

With: Anthony Bourdain

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It’s a perfect match: Morgan Neville, who won an Oscar for his wonderful portrait of back-up rock singers, TWENTY FEET FROM STARDOM, meets Anthony Bourdain, the cultural-culinary-intellectual force who exploded onto the scene in 2000 and became a restaurant celebrity and TV star, found a truly entertaining place in the American cultural canon. Bourdain’s outsize personality, insatiable curiosity, and passion for food, travel, and culture tapped into a deeper humanity that resonated with viewers who felt that they knew him. ROADRUNNER is an amazingly energetic, fast-moving documentary, as fun and yet complex as the man himself, about his career as a chef, writer, and host, revered and renowned for his authentic, relaxed approach to food, culture, and travel. It’s not at all hard to imagine Neville copping another Oscar for this terrific documentary. Sponsored by Front & Main at the Lockwood Hotel

Switzerland 2020 - DCP - 91 minutes

In English

Director: Nick Brandestini

Screenplay: Taylor Segrest

Producer: Vesna Eckert

Narration: Bahni Turpin

Print Courtesy: Nick Brandestini

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On the barrier island of Sapelo off the coast of Georgia, reachable only by boat, two brothers, JerMarkest and Johnathan, are growing up in the last remaining enclave of the Saltwater Geechee people. Their greatest joy is exploring the island like their adoptive mother, Cornelia Walker Bailey, did as a child. As SAPELO’s storyteller and elder matriarch, she works to preserve what remains of this unique community established by her ancestors. Reflecting on the complicated splendor of her youth, Cornelia strives to shepherd her young sons through theirs. At the dawn of adolescence, the brothers inherit her hope, but their bond is tested as they begin to face the wider world. Director Nick Brandestini, a veteran of several past MIFFs with his films CHILDREN OF THE ARCTIC and DARWIN, has etched a remarkable cinematic career, traveling the world in search of cultures and places that he evokes honestly yet poetically in his films. He has met an ideal subject in SAPELO.

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