Roadrunner: Anthony Bourdain

I really want to see this. I was rewatching Parts Unknown earlier this week.

I saw it.

I'm a huge Bourdain fan. Watched his shows from a Cook's tour (00-02) all of No Reaervation and all of Parts Unkown. Literally watched all episodes more than once.

I thought the doc was very dark and depressing. Which isn't really isn't surprising given that we all know how his life ended but it's certainly eye opening to see how his last year filming just fell apart for him.
My grandmother died of suicide when my mom was 25. I never got to meet which sucks but I feel for my mom and her siblings that had to endure that (which happened right after my grandfather died of cancer).

I will always love Tony - I thought he was such a beautiful essayist, orator and writer. I don't care as much when he did transfer over to CNN (parts unknown) he became more political because the cinamaphotogrophy just got to be almost perfect. He made me want to travel and inspired millions to do the same.

That doc however painted a very honest picture of him from the beginning to end and I'm thankful I saw it but I will choose to remember him before he went downhill. Man that Hong long episode they talked about was so rough to watch when you got to see the behind the scenes. I can't believe he fired Zach - Tony literally visited that mans family in Maine dedicated a whole episode to him in No reservations. And to just be a dick to him - I just hate how his ending went.

A documentary about the late celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has triggered controversy after it emerged that the filmmaker used artificial intelligence to recreate his voice.

A 45-second segment, in which Bourdain’s computer-created voice reads an email aloud, has raised ethical questions over the technique.

It was used by Morgan Neville in Roadrunner, a one hour 58-minute documentary about Bourdain, who committed suicide in 2018, aged 61.

In the clip, viewers hear the chef say: “My life is sort of s--t now. You are successful, and I am successful, and I’m wondering: Are you happy?”

It would have remained a secret had Mr Neville not admitted using the technique in an interview with the New Yorker magazine.

While the use of AI in the Bourdain documentary was purely for artistic reasons, there are fears that the “deep fake” technology could be exploited for more sinister purposes.

In this case, Mr Neville sent approximately 12 hours of recordings of Bourdain to a software company who recreated his voice for the short clip.

“If you watch the film … you probably don’t know what the other lines are that were spoken by the AI, and you’re not going to know,” he said.

However critics, including Bourdain’s former wife, Ottavia, condemned the use of AI.

She disputed suggestions that she had given her blessing for the clip.

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Great film. Loved it and very well made.

I searched and found it to stream for $20. Is there another (cheaper) option?