Filmmaker Morgan Neville borrows lyrics from a Kris Kristofferson song to describe the late chef, author and TV personality Anthony Bourdain: “Partly truth, partly fiction, a walking contradiction.”Neville explores those contradictions in his Focus Features documentary Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, the biggest nonfiction hit at the box office this year.“He was somebody who was slightly different in every situation,” Neville noted during a panel discussion at Deadline’s Contenders Film: Documentary awards-season event. “He was… a protean figure who had all these different façades to him and was always changing.”Rather than try to resolve those contradictions—the charismatic writer who was paradoxically shy, the “cool” guy who
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