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Oct 20, 2006

A COMIC HEALTH HAZARD

"Cousins?," "Cousins," and most everything else...
" Coffee and Cigarettes ", in case you did not know, is a 96-minute feature composed of 11 short films ( filmed over an 17-year period ), all written and directed by Jim Jarmusch .
Every single film, at some point, features the drinking of coffee and the smoking of cigarettes, usually in a cafe or restaurant setting.
The first film, " Strange to Meet You ", features foreign film legend Roberto Benigni , who plays himself, like almost all of the characters in Jarmusch's series
Roberto , at a cafe, meets up with Steven Wright .
Steven has a dentist appointment soon, and he doesn't like the idea of it.
They begin to discuss this appointment, and it all leads up to a... punch-situation, I suppose, which is funny in a silly way , but not worth the nine-minute wait.

When you get to the bare bones of it, all life is just a bunch of scenes.

" Coffee and Cigarettes " takes the charm of life's little moments and combines them to loosely link together.
Director Jim Jarmusch first filmed the original “ Coffee and Cigarettes ” short in 1986 when it starred Steven Wright and the pre-“Life is Beautiful” Roberto Benigni .
Saturday Night Live , and was even followed up a few years after with a different set of actors, but a similar setting.
This also led to a third short, all with the title: “ Coffee and Cigarettes .”
This new feature film consists of eleven short scenes that are in one way or another, interrelated.
Simply from viewing the trailer, I was enthralled at what this film set out to do.
2 theaters nationwide ).
What I found was a movie that is deeper than most stuff found in Hollywood today, but would it be worth making the trip
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Coffee and Cigarettes 【Jim Jarmusch】
A very Funny look at typical Conversation & Human Interaction
The dynamics of conversation，and the addiction of " Coffee and Cigarettes ".
I attended the advance screening of " Coffee and Cigarettes "， and left somewhat confused， but definitely impressed by most of the movie.
" Coffee and Cigarettes " is 11 short ’conversations’ ， essentially taking place over coffee and cigarettes.
The more memorable ones ( Cousins?， the one with Bill Murray， the one with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop， and Twins ) are excellent，and show an interesting and well-planned dialogue and script.
However， plenty of the other shorts are somewhat below the standard set by the better ones and this results in awkward， occasionally boring shorts.

The tradeoff，though，is that the memorable scenes are so good that they do somewhat makeup for the lesser ones.
It is interesting to know that during the advance screening， many people left.
I don't know the reasons why，but some of the mutterings that I heard ( I arrived somewhat late and had a seat near the exit ) was that it was not what they were expecting， and that the lack of a story ( It’s more of a commentary than a story ) probably rubbed some people the wrong way.
Unscientifically， more of the audience that was leaving was female for some reason， though I don't know if this is because of the makeup of the audience.
Expecting something different was the key to my enjoyment of the movie.
I did not like each story， but the best stories outweighed the weaker ones，in my humble opinion.
The grainy black & white footage took some getting used to，but added to the "smoky" atmosphere.
There will be some people that will walk out after the third or forth short ( like some people that left last night ), and there will be some that will just stay for the funny dialogue.

But as the movie goes on, you start picking out the similarities and it all kind of comes full circle without really coming together.
I honestly never thought that typical banter could hit such a homerun in my book and I suggest that once this film opens in more screens, " Coffee and Cigarettes " will be the only thing you crave.
I did find， However ，the black and white contrast in the opening credits quite hard on the eyes，and didn't exactly endear me to the movie in the beginning.
Wonderful moments such as these， as well as a slick eye towards skewering celebrity culture，make Jim Jarmusch's COFFEE AND CIGARETTES a welcome and enigmatic， artificial high.

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