Tony talks films & Oscars 2012 →
As if there weren’t enough reason to love that man.
Mr. Bourdain comes from a family of “huge, huge, huge film nerds,” he said. “I grew up in a house with lush picture books about films; my parents were both very serious about them. Foreign, art, everything.” Full disclosure: Mr. Bourdain’s mother was a staff editor at The New York Times for many years.
His father worked early on at Willoughby’s Camera Emporium and “was able to rent a 16-millimeter projector and show us 16-millimeter classic films,” Mr. Bourdain recalled. “I’d seen the entire Janus Film collection by the time I was 10 or 11. François Truffaut was a hero in my house.”
He will put that knowledge to good use on April 10 as a guest programmer for Turner Classic Movies, discussing “The Searchers,” “Eyes Without a Face” and other films with Robert Osborne.
