The chapters of Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential” that inform the new movie about him span just 50 pages, at least based on my “deluxe” edition of the memoir that was annotated by the celebrated chef and libertine himself. Yet the page count drops even lower if you subtract the section on Bourdain’s early days at the Culinary Institute of America, a period only hinted at in director and screenwriter Matt Johnson’s “Tony.”


