Coffee and Cigarettes
2004 Directed by Jim Jarmusch
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Coffee And Cigarettes is a collection of eleven films from cult director Jim Jarmusch. Each film hosts star studded cast of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
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Part of the Jim Jarmusch Retrospective
Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes is one of Jarmusch's lesser acclaimed works, but it is also his most misunderstood. On the outside, Coffee and Cigarettes looks like a mere anthology film that is only connected by the idea of people having some coffee and cigarettes. One could easily just see it as "Jim Jarmusch gets together with his famous friends and makes a bunch of shorts".
Instead, Jarmusch is actually making a commentary about human nature. Throughout all the "Jarmuschy" witticisms, this is a film about how we repeat ourselves, no matter how different we are on the outside. Characters repeat specific lines, shorts repeat subtle interactions.
In his mild collection of short, Jarmusch…
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This is another film I meant to see when it was out in the cinema - mostly because it features Tom Waits - and since then it has generally been kicking around near the end of various watchlists of mine, never quite enticing enough to actually see. But Anne F's recent review mentioned that it was about to expire on Lovefilm Instant so I decided this was the time to finally get around to it.
Perhaps my dissatisfaction with this was because I had watched a near-perfect film (A Swedish Love Story) immediately before, and I would have loved more time to reflect - but that was difficult in an evening spent cramming in expiring movies.
However, My Dinner with… -
Easily one of the funniest movies ever. Favorite segments are probably Tom Waits and Iggy Pop, Bill Murray with RZA and GZA, Cate Blanchett, Steve Coogan and Alfred Molina...shit, I guess they're all my favorite.
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You know those films that you come to full of expectation because of you've heard rave reviews and you love the director and/or actors, but end up disappointed by a trite vacuous film? Well this is the exact opposite.
I came to this knowing only that it finishes on Lovefilm Instant on 11th March and that it was directed by the director of Broken Flowers, a film I didn't enjoy, but this is a gem. It's a series of vignettes filmed as a succession of the 'famous' sit and drink coffee and smoke, whilst taking part in a series of marvellously awkward conversations.
Why do films like this stay under the radar? I hadn't even heard of it until I spotted it earlier this week, and it probably would have stayed neglected on my watchlist if its expiry date hadn't been imminent. -
Wow!!! Cracker Jack. Absolute absurdist comedy that will leave you in splits. If you love your smokes and coffee this would so, so much more fun. All the little things that i do and i hear from other people were shown in this film. Mr.Jarmusch has shown to the world a lifestyle.
Personally, I have fallen in love with this movie. Thank you Jim , for making this wonderful movie and showing the world what a heavenly combination it is,
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A low key look into the art of conversation and is more or less the spiritual successor to Night on Earth (1991). Armed with a deadly cast and script to match. The film felt slightly to long with one or two of the conversations feeling unnecessary and inferior. Scenes between, Cate and Shelly (both played by Cate Blanchett) and Meg and Jack White were particularly great. In short, the monochomic filming, fantastic dialogue and excellent cast make this a must see of independent film.
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no words of mine could do justice to this film.
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Hit and Miss vignettes that's pretty much exactly what you'd expect from Jim Jarmusch
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Coffee and Cigarettes
They are both bad for you and so is this film
Coffee and Cigarettes is a film broken into about seven different segments. Both involved people drinking either coffee or tea and smoking cigarettes, oddly enough.
Out of the several groups that sit down to this setting, only a few were memorable and even those weren’t much so.
On group was Cate Blanchett and her relative. Both were played by Cate, who had a skit about the big time movie star and the downer relative whit a bad disposition.
Another was Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan, where Molina divulged that they were related a bit. He had found this out from a family tree. Coogan believed that…
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Second watch but first as a non smoker.
Watching people smoke for 90 minutes is not an effective way to quit.
Craving something rotten.
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How have I never seen this before? So many great lines in this.
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GZA and Bill Murray having tea. Welp.
Jim Jarmusch is the definition of cool.
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Part of the Jim Jarmusch Retrospective
Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes is one of Jarmusch's lesser acclaimed works, but it is also his most misunderstood. On the outside, Coffee and Cigarettes looks like a mere anthology film that is only connected by the idea of people having some coffee and cigarettes. One could easily just see it as "Jim Jarmusch gets together with his famous friends and makes a bunch of shorts".
Instead, Jarmusch is actually making a commentary about human nature. Throughout all the "Jarmuschy" witticisms, this is a film about how we repeat ourselves, no matter how different we are on the outside. Characters repeat specific lines, shorts repeat subtle interactions.
In his mild collection of short, Jarmusch…
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This is another film I meant to see when it was out in the cinema - mostly because it features Tom Waits - and since then it has generally been kicking around near the end of various watchlists of mine, never quite enticing enough to actually see. But Anne F's recent review mentioned that it was about to expire on Lovefilm Instant so I decided this was the time to finally get around to it.
Perhaps my dissatisfaction with this was because I had watched a near-perfect film (A Swedish Love Story) immediately before, and I would have loved more time to reflect - but that was difficult in an evening spent cramming in expiring movies.
However, My Dinner with…