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Coffee and Cigarettes
(R, 1:36:33, Released 2003)
| Provider: | Hulu |
| Genres: | Art House & International, Drama, Musical & Performing Arts, Comedy |
| Released: | Dec 31, 2003 |
| DVD Released: | Sep 21, 2004 |
| Starring: | Alfred Molina, Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Cinqué Lee, Iggy Pop, Joie Lee, Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Steve Coogan, Steven Wright |
| Directed by: | Jim Jarmusch |
| Synopsis: | A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common. |
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October 3, 2008Extremely interesting and unque concept. Some of the vignetes were really fun to watch where as others flew right over my head. The movie lacked consistency and had some great acting. Its underlining theme is supposed to be a comment on conversationalism of society, which sounds great and like something I would really enjoy, but unfortunatley i did'nt realy see alot of that.
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No rating.August 18, 2008
Another stunning work of art on so many levels.
The cast, the style and the writng...
What made me love this movie, was the personal opinions I heard, often singled out my favorite vignettes as the one's they didin't like, and/or thought were the weakest.
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August 16, 2008Oh my! who on earth could join Pop and Waits?!!? Absolutely brilliant! Again Jim :) It was quite a surprise. All those stars talking about everyday stuff, laughing, joking..just being normal. I have to point mr molina..he´s so classy and a cutie
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August 16, 2008
A collection of 11 mostly two-character dialogue sketches, each shot in lustrous black and white and set around a single table in a coffee shop. This is an excellent film with a great cast.
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August 14, 2008
If you're a smoker who enjoys coffee...be prepared to pause the movie and brew up a cup and go out for a smoke.
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August 2, 2008like other stuffs of jim this is perfect too.
i specially liked the episode of two cate blanchettes.even one of them is enough to hypnotize u and keep u on the seat.now can u imagine 2 of them at the same time.well that is just woW.....!
anyway if u can`t imagine it,just go and watch the movie. -
July 13, 2008
Un film de malaises! Trop superbe! Les scenes varient par contre en qualite... Quelques tres belles perfomances: Kate Blanchet et le super Bill Murray! Look plutot ordinaire. Sensation d'inconfort couramment exploite... Que de malaises! Tres belle idee.
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June 12, 2008
Some of the episodes are funny as hell, some just dead boring. Steven Wright is the reason why I watched it.
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May 28, 2008
Great movie with great stories! Each plot seems simple with a nostalgic and relaxation mood, though everithing is like wrapped up by such an artistic smell of cigarette smoke and coffee!! Wow!!! And of course my favourite one is my lovely Roberto Benigni!
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May 16, 2008
A series of black and white vignettes about people chatting over coffee and cigarettes. For the most part, it works.
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April 30, 2008
Like all movies that follow this kind of narrative,this one has some excellents short stories,some that are just good and some that surely makes no sense.Still.very pleasable to see,since that excellent stories are majority.
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April 22, 2008
A quirky indie movie constructed from numerous short scenes of time spent by friends and relatives over coffee and cigarettes.
A brilliant scene featuring two Kate Blanchetts, another with Bill Murray, and yet another with Iggy Pop and Tom Waits.
A must-see for surrealism and film-noir fans. -
April 16, 2008
On my on going quest to watch Jim Jarmusch's films, last night I saw "Coffee and Cigarettes". Let me first say it's a film that purely supports the title. The entire film is based on people sitting at a cafe, usually two enjoying or at least trying to enjoy a cup of coffe and obviously, cigarettes. Jarmusch managed to capture the simplicity of everyday conversation and revolve it around coffee and cigarettes. The cast includes a mix of talents like Bill Murray, Roberto Benigni, Jack White, Cate Blanchett just to name a few. I love how the film is in black and white, besides the contrast, it symbolizes and enhances the ying and yang, right and wrong in the conversations that take place. This is quite different from his past films I've seen like "Dead Man" or "Down by Law" which are films that take us to different places. In "Coffee and Cigarettes" the actors take us to different places and sometimes share their with us their awkward moments. Aesthetically this film reminds me of his other film "Stranger than Paradise" where all the scenes in the film where done in one shot. "Coffee and Cigarettes" is brilliant, a very cool film and very funny if you listen carefully. Jarmusch is underated and should be more recognized for his cinematic brilliance.
FAVORITE LINE: "Your a MANIAC, A CAFFEINE MANIAC ! " -
April 6, 2008The photography is very impressive, and the film features some decent performances (nothing extraordinary, except from Cate Blanchett's dual role), as well as some pretty bad ones... The plot is empty and most of the time the dialog is badly improvised (or at least it feels that way)... Only 5 of the 11 shorts are good: Twins, Somewhere in California, Those Things'll Kill Ya, Cousins, and Champagne.
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March 21, 2008
A simplistic, lovably odd piece of experimentation that works in more ways than it doesn't. Funny, quirky and intelligent. Bill Murray's sketch had me in stitches.
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March 10, 2008
a movie every film lover would love. great cast, cool to see people you usually think of as strictly musicians acting. Steve Coogan is amazing.
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March 3, 2008great old school movie. liked that it was all black-and-white and also funny.
in this movie you can realy see a lot of coffee and cigarettes :D -
February 18, 2008kinda boring, or long like boringness of talk talk taalking on and on, no real I don't know maybe i was'nt into when iat the time would'nt mind watching it again or maybe not I'd probablly start chain smoking.
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February 6, 2008
Interessante, um pouco estranho, mas ainda assim interessante. Queria rever para dar um melhor review.
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February 5, 2008
This was an interesting movie. I liked the different skits, by some of the major artists in the movie industry. Cool stuff.
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February 3, 2008Want to see at some point in the future...
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January 19, 2008
jim jarmusch 'un en hoslasmadigim filmi. çünkü benim kisa hikayelerden olusmus filmlere karsi alerjim var. dikkat toplama eksikligim yuzunden bi konuya alisana kadar bitiyor baskasi basliyor. yoruluyorum.
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January 17, 2008
Nicotine and caffeine are perfect together.
A series of vignettes that all have coffee and cigarettes in common.
Are all different stories but some of them are a little bit boring. -
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, or 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) -
January 15, 2008
loads of stars turn up for indie director jim jarmush, in a load of vignettes, short scenes starring many stars, a scene thats set around people drinking coffee and smoking cigerettes, hence the title. cate blanchet, bill murrey, tom waits, robert benigni, steve bushimi, iggy pop, and even the white stripes, amung many others, starring in there 5 to 10 minute scene, life troubles, relationships, modern living, health, amoung many topics, great use of black and white, and oviously shot on a very tight budget, but you see the stars just relaxing and letting loose and doing there bit, not all storys are great to watch, and there are highlights, but thats what is great, there soon over with, flys by too, which is great
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January 7, 2008
definitely a film that entertains the existential, borderline surreal motifs. awkward comedy, realistic personal drama, and a plethora of overheard shots of coffee mugs, cigarette packs and checkerboard cafe tables. a clever and refreshing movie-watching experience, even if it is a bit "out there"
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January 6, 2008
i really like to see those kind of films, made of short segments, it's really interesting. jim jarmusch shows how he is a great director!
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November 18, 2007
This film made me laugh, I liked the dialogue and most of it seemed improvised. Someday I'm going to do a Jim Jarmusch marathon because I don't remember much about his films yet I think they deserve deeper study.
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November 6, 2007
i enjoyed some of this film, at times i was bored. i particularly enjoyed the cate blanchett scenes and the jack and meg white scenes. worth taking a look at though.
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November 1, 2007
Comedy , TOM Waits has a cool dialogue with Iggy Pop in the train , and Benigni IN ANOTHER FILM of Jim Jarmusch...
the first was in New Orleans in a nice film called { i m not sure } Down by the law .. -
October 29, 2007
very interesting concept. i especially liked the cate blanchett, white stripes, and alfred molina segments, and bill murray was a hoot.
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October 26, 2007Sometimes brilliant (Wu-Tang, White Stripes, Tom Waits), sometimes sleep-inducing (Blanchett, Benigni, Molina) experiment.
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October 22, 2007
"So, Jack, are you going to tell me about your Tesla coil?" That about sums it up. I mean that iin a good way.
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October 21, 2007
had it's moments, hated the first skit, but it got better. The best, to me, was seeing Rza & Gza with Bill "Groundhog Day Ghostbustin' Ass" Murray. It was like 'bong bong'.
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October 20, 2007
I wasn't really sure what to expect going into this, a bunch of shorts put together over like 17 years or something. But it was actually quite surprising, some bits were done really well and quite hilarious and there were only maybe two segments I didn't really like (Renee being one of them). I have to say my favourites would have to be Roberto Benigni and Steven Wright, that segment should have been longer, classic stuff. Tom Waits and Iggy Pop was gold, loved that. Cate Blanchette's bit was spot on, she was excellent as herself lol and as her cousin. I loved the Alfred Molina and Steve Coogen bit, the longest one I think but so hilarious, so nicely done, it was perfect. The Bill Murry with RZA and GZA was pretty good too, very random, seemed most random especially with some things Bill Murray was saying which referred to a different segment. Not something I could easily recommend, but if you like your Jim Jarmusch this would be a must see.
"Very good, I don't understand nothing" - Benigni -
October 18, 2007
A very different movie to the rest that runs on an up-turned formulae. This movie turns into a masterpiece through it's absurd plot and run of things.
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October 3, 2007
Less a feature film but rather a series of bizarre vignettes that focus on the banality of conversation and the awkwardness that can arise from it. Gorgeously shot in monchrome, the only real complaint of the film is that due to its segmented nature, some parts of the film vary greatly in quality. An interesting experiment.
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September 25, 2007
While not the perfect movie for everyone, I love to smoke and drink coffee. I therefore must be overly partial to this film about basically several human situations featuring coffee and smokes aplenty. Bill Murray continues to show that he is a serious indie force to be reckoned with in his later years.
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September 24, 2007
jim jarmusch knows how to write and direct human beings. some segments were a lot better than others.
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September 23, 2007
Snippets of life where folk drink coffee and puff up large. Odd to see that much smoking these days -kinda put me off as I find smoking so UNSEXY. Wortha look though.
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September 23, 2007se fosse mais curto, não seria tão cansativo. também tem um tipo de humor que não me agrada. chatinho.
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September 18, 2007
This was a good film, for those with ecclectic tases. This is the guy who directed Ghost Dog with forrest Whitaker, for those of you who are fans of that film. (Not the same at all though)
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September 14, 2007
Great set of vignettes about life in the city, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop stand out, as you would expect
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September 10, 2007
Some parts better than others...the Steve Coogan/Alfred Molina sketch is the best.; the Bill Murray and Wu-Tang bit is priceless.
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September 9, 2007
Again, a series of short films. Two or three are brilliant but the entire film doesn't really work. Still, the stellar cast is always interesting.
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September 2, 2007
It's not perfect (is it possible, anyway?), it's not that all, but there's really something about it.
Besides the coffees seems always to be cold (and that made me really want a good and hot cappuccino or coffee with cream!), the cast is great (Jack and Meg of The White Stripes, Bill Murray, Roberto Benigni and Cate Blanchet just to you have an idea) and the black and wthite adds a lot to the movie's atmosphere. -
August 18, 2007
This movie took an age to make. With cameos from Iggy Pop, Tom Waits and many more... who can complain. Tis a gem of a film.
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August 17, 2007
Jim Jarmusch's pet project of small shorts of various famous people talking over coffee and cigarettes is finally released into a feature length on DVD, and it doesn't diossapoint. By taking a range of interesting and eccentric charachters (the highlights being Steve Coogan, The White Stripes, Cate Blanchett and Bill Murray) and letting them sit and talk about whatever they find interesting presents a series of quirky and often very funny scenes, with the actors playing up to thier stage personas.
Alone they create amusing faux-glimses into anotehrs life, but together they present a love-song not only to conversation, but to the quirky things people care about. Jack White talks about Tesla, Steve Coogan gets sucked into an argument about family tree's and Spike Jonze, Bill Murray meets the Wu Tan Clan for no reason at all - but its all brilliantly, quietly entertaining stuff. -
August 15, 2007
Por favor... de las mejores del cine Independiente... en B/N, aparece Jack y Meg White, y hacen lo mismo que yo... fumar y tomar tintotintotinto
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August 5, 2007
A completely pointless film that relies on what should be scenography because it just has no story :P Bah. Alfred Molina's and Cate Blanchett's segments were good, though.
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July 12, 2007
short films are a little too distracting for me so the message sort of went over my head. i hate the white stripes but their skit was hilarious and i was impressed by their acting. i think i'd like it better on second viewing.
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July 11, 2007
Ace collection of discussions between characters in unrelated situation linked only by everyone's favourite stimulants (the clue's in the title) and by the totally compelling nature of seemingly everyone in the cast. much of the interest comes from watching the unlikely combinations of known quantities interact with each other ? RZA, GZA and Bill Murray? Alfred Molina and... Steve Coogan? the last sequence is particularly touching. also, bonus marks for Wu-Tang representing.
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July 10, 2007
If you like simple conversational dialogue, this is a pretty good one to check out. If you need more stimulation, then steer clear.
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June 30, 2007
This is quite good. 11 stories from a number of different actors. All sitting around smoking and having coffee. The skit with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop is a riot. Recently watched this again and it did not make me want to smoke at all! Yippie!
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June 25, 2007
Well guys this time i gonna have to say no... at least for the moment. Im not trying to insult Jarmusch tecnique but men!!! i couldnt watched it complete .. i was literaly falling sleep .. hehe. yes it does had cool things (well the part i saw) a black and white scenario, with many cups of coffee and cigarettes and good xenitals ( i dont know if thats the way it cal at that kind of shot in english but anyway..) still... evendoe it has a great cast i didnt feel anything.. i was just whishing that the scene already ended it! yes its truth some "trivials" things like coffee and cigarettes can be more important that we imagine and can become part of every little conversation that we have with someone . part of our lives sort of speak but....... i dont know.. i didnt find it appealing or interesting . just i couldnt find a good sense on the different storis more that some convo ina cafe.. maybe im to estrict and tuff today but thats what i felt .
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June 23, 2007
It's an experimental masterpiece. Now, mind youo, when I say "experimental" , I say that in the sense of Hollywood experimental, not Italian horror experimental or German expressionism. But whatever way you go about it, Jim Jarmusch (director of the equally amazing "Dead Man") has made a masterpiece here. It's an wholly original concept and the dry humor is hysterical (if you don't let it fly over your head). I'd have to say my favorite skits are the Iggy Pop/Tom Waits, Steve Buscemi/Twins, Jack&Meg White, and Wu-Tang & Bill Murray. I'll be quite honest, its entertaining for those who want something different. If you're perfectly fine with seeing how Jerry Bruckheimer is able to fuck the movie biz into submission with mind-numbing explosions in place of story, well then go right on ahead. But Jim Jarmusch is as talented a writer/director as you'll come across and this may be, in a career filled with left turns, his masterpiece.
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June 19, 2007
Just recently watched part of it (meaning that I watched some of the individual scenes) and I was left wanting to see more.
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June 16, 2007
Few interesting stories with more then surprising guests from music world. Along with Iggy Pop, RZA, GZA, The White Stripes... this is a strangely interesting movie that has a lot of symbolic and keeps attention of a viewer... I do reccommend!
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June 13, 2007
witty, intriguing, cleverly framed and conceived. plus, i love coffee. plus, i love... well. i just do.
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June 11, 2007
for those that like and those doesnt like coffee and cigarettes, but mainly for those that love cinema.
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June 8, 2007
a bit arty,but thats what makes it fun. molina is good in it. my fave is when a lad brings into the pub his home made tesla coil....
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June 7, 2007
Beautiful black-and-white vignettes -- look for the Alfred Molina/Steve Coogan and the Jack/Meg White bits.
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June 6, 2007
11 skits featuring a wide range of actors and musicians just sitting around smoking, drinking coffee, and talking about weird stuff. Like Jarmusch's other stuff, it's slow, a bit awkward, and yet so weirdly cool and funny. My favorite skit is Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil. Also, Bill Murray talking to GZA and RZA from Wu Tang Clan.
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June 2, 2007
fabulous movie. it seems so simple and easy to do, but its just because it has a natural feeling. this must have been a bitch to film. a few takes but atleast the writing was so abstract.. man, jim has me twisted with its glory. watch it. then watch it again. its beautiful.
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May 31, 2007
Interesting but not great. Initially, I thought it was great but after watching it a couple of times...
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May 29, 2007
A captivating sequence of vignettes, the highlights being Steve Coogan's scene, and Cate Blanchett playing herself and her bitter cousin in the same scene.
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May 22, 2007
I absolutely loved this. Check out the scene where Bill Murray chats with the Wu-Tang Clan. Classic stuff.
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May 10, 2007
an excellent parady of social norms... smoking over coffee... and the brilliant nuthing we all converse about with precise obligitory mental bile ... the tops is iggy pop and tom waits.... "are those your smokes?"
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April 23, 2007
Jim Jarmusch is both ridiculously cool and deeply in touch with the human phyce. This film displays those two facts flawlessly. Plus, it's hard to dislike a film that has both Tom Waits, Iggy Pop and the Wu Tang Clan in it all at once.
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April 11, 2007
Most of the segments of this movie are really nice. But there are some that aren't good at all. My favourite was the segment with Coogan and Molina (best segment, best acting). In overall, the movie is good.
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April 8, 2007
This is an odd film but intresting 2 watch if there's nothing else happening! tom wait's and iggy pop's bit is d' best
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March 18, 2007
this was a bizarre movie the best part was when the White Stripes were in it...it is so weird but really cool..black and white kicks ass
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March 16, 2007
Some of my heroes are in this movie and it is simply hilarious...when you like awkward silences and extremely cunical and sarcastic humor.
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March 6, 2007
An ecclectic reel of shorts, focusing entirely on acting and dialouge, as well as the marvellous directing of Jarmusch. A film for film-lovers, it expresses the skill and art of "cinema" without the restrictions and presumptions of making a "movie."
Moving from ponderous, quixotic, to awkward, hauntingly sad, to simply hilarious... this film is almost a wildlife documentary of actors in their natural habitat. -
February 26, 2007
The advantage of a series of vignettes is that you can pick and choose the scenes you enjoy, HOWEVER, I don't think it holds up well as a feature film. Some of the collaborations seem a little forced (Waits & Pop, Meg & Jack White) however a few work
