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Genres:
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Comedy /
Music /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Jim Jarmusch
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Actors:
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Tom Waits,
Steven Wright,
Iggy Pop,
Joie Lee,
Vinny Vella,
Joseph Rigano,
Vinny Vella Jr.,
Roberto Benigni,
Cinqué Lee,
Steve Buscemi
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Duration:
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95 min.
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Rating:
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(6.8/10)80.5
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Plot Summary:
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Jim Jarmusch's ensemble comedy is a series of vignettes, all revolving around discussions held over coffee and cigarettes. Starring a diverse cast, including Invoice Murray, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, and others, the film has been in radio show since the 1980s and is in embargo and white. Topics of conversation cover Nicola Tesla, alternate nostrum, Paris, the film industry, and more.
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Coffee and Cigarettes
Over the last 20 years Jim Jarmusch has been filming, at irregular intervals, sharp, jocular palaver-pieces, hackneyed...
Coffee and Cigarettes
There's a moment in Paul Auster and Wayne Wang's flick X-rated In The Face when Jim Jarmusch takes a swallow and a suck and declares, "Coffee and cigarettes. That's like the breakfast of champions." Here the director of Ghost Dog: Progressing Of The Samurai and Round-the-clock On Earth gets a whole movie in which to honour his pick stimulants and some of their attendant rituals. Made in fits and starts between 1986 and 2003 (the project's genesis was a sketch for the sake US TV peek through 'Saturday Evensong Breathe'), more than a dozen of the boss's famous friends line up to play artfully extravagant versions of themselves. Shot in black and ashen, there are eleven sketches in all, most of them less than ten minutes big, mostly essay in cafes. 'Unfamiliar T...
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