Coffee and Cigarettes (2004)
Directed by Jim Jarmusch
An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.
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But even when he flirts with conventional themes (“Coffee and Cigarettes”) or bold-faced names (Johnny Depp in “Dead Man,” Bill Murray in “Broken Flowers”), Jarmusch keeps his own, slyly deadpan voice intact.
The vampire story stars Tilda Swinton (“We Need to Talk About Kevin”) and Tom Hiddleston (“Thor”) and is written/directed by Jim Jarmusch (“Coffee and Cigarettes”), which should answer the question: “Why might I be bored?”
Writer/director Jim Jarmusch (Broken Flowers, Coffee and Cigarettes) casts Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston as the bloodsuckers trying to fill their time after so many centuries, like a couple of urban slackers doomed to faff for eternity.
If I were to rank my favorites, I think the anthology film Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) would come out near the bottom.
You can see it in Jarmusch’s previous movies Night on Earth or Coffee and Cigarettes, where short conversations speak volumes about who these characters are.
If ever there was a movie that's destined to become contemplative comfort viewing, it's the new effort from the director of Dead Man, Coffee and Cigarettes and Only Lovers Left Alive.
“Paterson” might be the most minimalist film Jarmusch has made, which says a lot considering he also made “Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai” and “Dead Man” and “Coffee and Cigarettes.”
His quieter films — Stranger Than Paradise , Down by Law , Mystery Train , Dead Man , Ghost Dog , and Broken Flowers — tend to be better than his talkier ones, like Night on Earth, Coffee and Cigarettes , etc. (We will have to leave The Limits of Control up for debate.)
Whatever its charms as a celebration of “the empty page,” of the pauses at the end of poetic phrases which allow the mind to wander into the poet’s head, or in this case — into films similar in tone and tenor — “Tree’s Lounge,” “Factotum,” “Henry Fool” — I was desperate for any hint of Jarmusch’s droll wit, for the humor of “Mystery Train,” “Night on Earth,” “Broken Flowers” or “Coffee and Cigarettes.”
The latest film by writer-director Jim Jarmusch (“Stranger by Paradise,” “Down by Law,” “Coffee and Cigarettes”) is about one week in the life of a bus driver named Paterson who lives in Paterson, New Jersey, with a wife he loves very much and a dog he doesn’t like very much.