Coffee and Cigarettes

Coffee and Cigarettes

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Coffee and Cigarettes

Alfred Molina, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Cinqué Lee, Iggy Pop

A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.

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  • August 27, 2009
    A collection of short conversation between various different characters, generally in cafes and always while, you've guessed it, drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. Some sketches are super cool, some are very funny, I thought Cate Blanchett's was very clever, but unfortunatel...( read more)y, a couple of them are real duds. Filmed over several years, this film is testament to Jarmusch's contribution to film, comedy and general coolness.
  • May 19, 2009
    just no
  • October 29, 2008
    Jim Jarmusch filmed friends, actors and other celebrities talking during coffee and cigarette breaks, creating a series of short episodes of people having conversations about all kinds of things while drinking and smoking. While most of the actors are playing themselves they are ...( read more)still acting a role, like Steve Buscemi as waiter or Alfred Molina as a needy friend and new found cousin in one of the most amusing episodes. Some of them are fun, other seem pointless, but the highlights outbalance the boring parts. Cate Blanchett once again proves to be one of the best actresses of our generation in a role as herself and her own low-life cousin, Meg White of the White Stripes is adorable in her lack of acting skills and rock fans probably waited a long time to see Iggy Pop and Tom Waits meet. Unspectacular, but entertaining.
  • June 12, 2008
    Some of the episodes are funny as hell, some just dead boring. Steven Wright is the reason why I watched it.
  • January 15, 2008
    Ah, Jim Jarmusch.
    Indie indie indie.

    My first Jarmusch film was Stranger Than Paradise which was...peculiar to say the least. When you're dealing with pauses in action that last minutes upon minutes upon minutes and entail little more than watching a character watch tv, o...( read more)r sit there bored. I mean, it kind of rubs off. Which was clearly the point, but at the same time, it's slightly off-putting and a little confusing. I had one of my lovely Boone experiences there, with people yelling at the screen to do something at the time, and I distinctly recall telling them to "SHUT THE FUCK UP OR GET OUT."
    Maybe with a conditional like 'if you don't like the movie,' but that's really pretty superfluous, innit?

    Anyway.
    Coffee and Cigarettes. I actually had a portion of the film downloaded ages ago (the file is infact dated 12/28/2003 at 7:25am. It begins, as does the real film (which yes, I did just watch) with Roberto Benigni and steven Wright having a very awkward conversation over coffee and cigarettes--the centerpiece of the entire film. It also includes the bit with Joie and Cinqué Lee being served coffee by the hillbilly Steve Buscemi, and my absolute favourite bit (unsurprisingly)-- Tom Waits and Iggy Pop, both bloody brilliant in their part.

    Anyway, I'd forgotten most of what I'd seen before, and so this was a pretty fresh experience. It was more entertaining than I expected from previous Jarmusch experience, and from the nasty comments that have been made about this particular film (such as absolute silence during its sundance (?) showing followed by "That was shit, Jim," after it ended),

    Cate Blanchett was astonishing for reasons I will not reveal, but I felt less stupid after discovering Taylor Mead was as ignorant as I was in a bonus interview on the disc. Waits and Iggy were, as I say, my favourites and turned in probably my favourite segment (though Cate's and Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan also did great memorable ones).

    There is, duh, no plot. It is a series of vignettes, really, strange little conversations between random people about random topics, with some similar comments and ideas shared between them on occasion. All had over tea/coffee and cigarettes.

    Some comments were interesting for seeming new, yet truthful, others for humorous value, and others simply for reaffirmation of existing feelings--and occasionally even for trivia. Almost all of the performances were stunning and thoroughly believable--though there was some improvisation. (2/3/06)
  • December 25, 2009
    I enjoyed watching it from the beginning till the end
  • December 14, 2009
    Interesting to not so interesting. I particularly enjoyed the one with RZA, GZA and Bill Murray, as i am a fan of all three, but some of these were dull.
  • November 24, 2009
    Aardige film, maar soms lukt het niet en ook de stiltes zijn niet altijd op een goede manier pijnlijk. Een film voor vrienden lijkt het wel. De mooiste scene, die is echt mooi, is de laatste scene: 'Let's pretend this coffee is champagne'.
  • November 20, 2009
    Interesting film by Jim Jarmusch who in black and white format filmed what seems to be sketches of famous actors and musicians conversating about any and everything while having "coffee and cigarettes". Some of these sketches include Bill Murray with The Gza and The Rza of Wu-Tan...( read more)g Clan, Meg and Jack White of The White Stripes, others include Cate Blanchett, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop and many others.
    Some of the sketches I found to be really boring, others were really interesting and some were just plain funny. I like the fact that the director went completely against what most people know to be the "formula" for a movie. Instead of coming up with a plot, storyline, climax and adding action, or drama and let's not forget the stunt doubles and or CGI, director Jim Jarmusch shows us that something as simple as a cup of coffee, a cigarette and conversation wether it's meaningless or not, can be entertaining.
  • October 3, 2009
    Coffee and Cigarettes is about various actors and musicians sitting around in shops conversing while drinking and smoking; well, title. While most of the conversations are amusing, some of them go straight to being pointless. Just like on most music cds, some of the dialog...( read more)ue are like fillers for the big name ones. Two top conversations that should be heard are between Iggy Pop and Tom Waits, and Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan. Most of the conversations that these individuals have aren't intelligent, but they're entertaining, so that's good enough for me.

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