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Coffee and Cigarettes

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63% Tomatometer 122 Reviews 75% Popcornmeter 25,000+ Ratings
This 11-vignette film focuses on the human interactions that happen while partaking in the everyday indulgence of coffee and cigarettes. Featuring well-known actors and other artists as themselves or some version thereof, the film highlights the nuances and subtle hostilities that can be a part of seemingly normal conversations. Bill Murray waits on the Wu-Tang Clan, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits get on each others' nerves and Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes discuss Nikola Tesla.
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Episodes vary in quality, but overall this talky film is quirkily engaging.

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Empire Magazine Rated: 3/5 Apr 1, 2006 Full Review Jamie Russell BBC.com Rated: 3/5 Oct 19, 2004 Full Review Peter Rainer New York Magazine/Vulture What unites everything is Jarmusch's playful, hang-dog absurdism. Aug 7, 2004 Full Review Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand ... an anthology of curiosities, some more curious than others, wound around a diverse cast paired off for random ramblings over caffeine and nicotine. Sep 9, 2023 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com Jarmusch is definitely an acquired taste, but his true fans will find this collection a joy and fans of film who long for the simplicity of true filmmaking. Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 5, 2020 Full Review Mark Steyn The Spectator I have the horrible feeling that in cold print that sounds a lot livelier than it is. In practice, it plays like an overlong round of Whose Line Is It Anyway? where all the participants are stoned. Jan 25, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Dani G A very Jarmusch film as expected, with a parade of personalities being themselves... Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/22/24 Full Review Kyle M Simplistic conversations filmically portraited tend to offer engagement over possibly intriguing ideas that position the viewer in the scene listening by aesthetical realism. So with that attention span pointed out, agreeably some doesn’t effectively draw you like the others, but its thematic discourse being particularly discussed by an appealing cast connectively accumulates over a shared idea regarding different aspects of a celebrity life being conversationally shared and concretely observed. (B) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/17/24 Full Review Aender S This film's got quite some funny moments, but the way they're delivered is boring. It would've probably helped for more atmosphere if the "cafés" had other customers than just the protagonists. There are definitely better films by Jim Jarmusch. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 04/19/24 Full Review Steve D None of it worked for me at all. Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/24 Full Review John A Very experimental. 11 vignettes unrelated to each other present multiple characters that engage in fairly personal dialogue. I'm sad to report that most of this 90 minute picture is more or less a dud. Cate Blanchett's dual performance found in her own vignette somewhere in the middle is certainly an interesting watch. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 12/01/23 Full Review Logan M Sadly, not all of the sketches are on the same level of quality. But the charm of the movie gets the audience through the lesser moments, and the stories that are good are all great. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis This 11-vignette film focuses on the human interactions that happen while partaking in the everyday indulgence of coffee and cigarettes. Featuring well-known actors and other artists as themselves or some version thereof, the film highlights the nuances and subtle hostilities that can be a part of seemingly normal conversations. Bill Murray waits on the Wu-Tang Clan, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits get on each others' nerves and Jack and Meg White of the White Stripes discuss Nikola Tesla.
Director
Jim Jarmusch
Producer
Joana Vicente, Jason Kliot
Screenwriter
Jim Jarmusch
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Production Co
Asmik Ace Entertainment
Rating
R (Language)
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
May 14, 2004, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 14, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$2.0M
Runtime
1h 36m
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