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Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

Bill Murray , Tom Waits , Jim Jarmusch  |  R |  DVD
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)


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  • Actors: Bill Murray, Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, RZA, Cate Blanchett
  • Directors: Jim Jarmusch
  • Writers: Jim Jarmusch
  • Producers: Birgit Staudt, Demetra J. MacBride, Gretchen McGowan, Jason Kliot, Jim Stark
  • Format: AC-3, Anamorphic, Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
  • Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
  • Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Rated: R (Restricted)
  • Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
  • DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (97 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0002I83Z4
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #46,224 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "Coffee and Cigarettes" on IMDb

Special Features

  • Outtake with Bill Murray
  • Music video: "Midnight Jam" by Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros
  • Interview with Taylor Meade

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Now here is a movie that's practically perfect for DVD. Shot over many years with eccentric actors, Jim Jarmusch's collection of black-and-white vignettes is as uneven as a collection of music videos (without songs). Even with the dull spots and the drop-dead-hip ambiance, there's something touching about this parade of frazzled people holding on to their coffee and cigarettes like life rafts--especially in the final sequence with Taylor Mead. There are some severely misconceived pieces, but the best are a treat: Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan in a hilarious Hollywood encounter, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop getting off on the wrong foot in a funky diner, and Cate Blanchett doing a dual role as herself and a jealous cousin. Bill Murray can't save one underwritten piece, but Jack and Meg White are amusing in an absurdist blackout. Use the Scene Selection menu, and revel in the fetishizing of java and butts. --Robert Horton

Product Description

Celebrated writer-director Jim Jarmusch (Mystery Train) serves up this witty and intoxicating brew that's "as addictive as caffeine" (Richard Roeper, "Ebert & Roeper and the Movies") and "as buzzy and ephemeral as, well, coffee and cigarettes" (LA Weekly)! "Sneakily delirious [and] way cool" (Time), this "funny cluster of eleven stories" (Rolling Stone) delivers "inspired eccentric match-ups" (The Hollywood Reporter) from an incredible all-star cast, making Coffee and Cigarettes an absolute must for fans of film, fun and fantastic wit!

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57 of 62 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Coffee and Cigarettes was initiated in 1986 when Jim Jarmusch shot the first skit in black and white with Roberto Benigni as Bob and Steven Wright as Steven. The second scene was shot in 1989 with the twins, Cinqué Lee and Joie Lee, and the waiter Steve Buscemi where they discuss Elvis and the oppression of African-American musicians. The third piece was filmed in 1993 with Tom Waits and Iggy Pop meeting in a Californian bar where the two get together. This suggests that Jarmusch has been working on this idea for some years and there is much more to it than what meets the eye. The culmination of Coffee and Cigarettes came when all the 11 skits were put together in a film in 2003 for the audience to experience and ponder.

Self medicated existential philosophy, awkward dialogues with moments of silence, human connection, and health conscience characters drive the story of Coffee and Cigarettes where Jim Jarmusch displays 11 disjointed vignettes all set in different milieus. What ties the 11 incoherent skits together are the coffee and the cigarettes as they function as a brief opportunity for human connection away from time and responsibilities. The characters continue to inhale the nicotine and consume the caffeine during their meetings in order to stay alert and rid any slight hint of social anxiety. Yet, all the characters remain uncomfortable with one another as silence and meaningless conversation seems to fill their time cramped lives. This creates a socially symbolic oxymoron where the coffee and cigarettes are suppose to function as the key to human connection, but instead these two social drugs for self-treatment of anxiety and sleepiness become an impenetrable unfriendly wall.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars not for the faint of brain July 7, 2005
Format:DVD
let me say, that i loved this movie. i loved it as a whole. i did not "love" every part of it. I think the part with Tom Waits & Iggy Pop is brilliantly awkward. I think Cate Blanchett can do no wrong. I enjoyed seeing someone else who feels that Nikola Tesla was awesomely bizarre (thanks Jack). I mean, don't get me wrong, some vignettes dragged, but others more than made up for it. When a scene was dragging on me, i just drifted off and enjoyed the cinematography. This movie is very much a "different" experience. With the kinda free-flow dialouge that makes movies by Robert Altman and Richard Linklater so endearing. And a shoulder shrugging hipness that makes Quentin Tarantino and Wes Anderson some of my personal favorites. This movie reminds me that Jim Jarmusch is a curious observer, just like me, and that he isn't just an aloof director, but that he experiences the pieces much like we do. He's our friend or guide, like in a Walt Whitman poem. But then again, i suppose this movie isn't for everyone. There is no plot to follow, and its not a particularly "flashy" film. It's not even terrible experimental in terms of concept. But i am glad that this is the case, cos oft times that type of stuff borders on pretention when in the wrong hands. The only really "challenge" this film poses, is the challenge of the way you choose to participate in it. I would enjoy seeing more of this kind of filmmaking cos i think it is a welcome change of pace from the "falsh/bang" of hollywood. Or maybe i just really like coffee....
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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars YES!! August 20, 2004
Format:DVD
YES!! what a beautiful, wonderful, funny movie!! definatly for jarmusch fans..if you need alot of stupid hollywood action and romance, dont see this movie. anyways...roberto beningi gave the most hilarious performance i have ever seen(yes i think even funnier than dbl)...and of course TOM (not freakin steve EA Solinas) waits and iggy pop were hilarious...and it was awesome how the same conversation came up later in rza and gza's conversation!! only jim jarmusch can take 18 years of film and make it fit together so beautifully!! yes! this film is alot like other jarmusch films, like night on earth and mystery train..made up of short clips...the one strange thing i noticed about coffee and cigarettes is that it was all in english...but this was just as mind blowing as jarmuschs other films...if you like jarmusch see this..i CANT WAIT FOR THE DVD TO COME OUT !!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A Fun Idea for a DVD, not necessarily good Film. March 10, 2005
Format:DVD
I think some people who have negatively reviewed this movie are doing so because they didn't find out more about the movie before renting it, and therefore had their hopes up it would be an actual Film by Jim Jarmusch, whereas it is actually a series of short conversations caught ON film. True, some of them are quiet boring and need not exist. I love Cate Blanchett but watching her talk to herself (cousin) for fifteen minutes got on my nerves. On the other hand, watching the akwardness between Iggy Pop and Tom Waits, watching the brother and sister argument between Jack and Meg White (don't know if they're really siblings or not still, but they played brother and sister), and watching a naive Steve Buscemi with a southern accent try to talk to a pair of twins about Elvis Presley were all rewarding. Its not real drama or comedy in this movie, its a bunch of quirky little bits and pieces that have little to do with one another, except for the talk over and about Coffee and Ciggarettes. I'd say to fans of Jim Jarmusch or any of the actors in the film, watch it all the way through once, then you can pick out the pieces you really didn't like and never see them again. But don't think that just because it doens't have a linear plot or connecting stories and characters that it isn't worth your time. The truth is, I'm happy I didn't pay full price to see this in a theatre, but it makes for a perfect DVD.

The two funniest sketches are probably the end sketch with RZA and GZA drinking tee with Bill Murray playing their waiter, and the scene between Alfred Molina (whose just looking for someone to love him!) and Steve Coogan. I'd definately rent it before buying it, unless you've just GOT to have the complete Jim Jarmusch collection.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars Omg, FAST.
I'm not much of an online shopper on account of my stingyness when it comes to shipping/waiting. But jesu christo!!! Read more
Published 4 months ago by calib82000
4.0 out of 5 stars Ragged but right
Good to watch on in-between days. Not JM's best by any means (that goes to Dead Man) but still very insightful and funny. Have a cup of sarcasm with your coffee and cigarettes.
Published 4 months ago by James Yoakum
3.0 out of 5 stars Cigaretts & Coffee
Listen ... the Iggy Pop/Tom Waits bit is brilliant, so if you can score this at a great price just for that interview, then grab it, otherwise, watch that selection on YouTube, the... Read more
Published 6 months ago by R. Kesler
4.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
This movie has a very dry, awkward sense of humor. It is amusing to see so many familiar faces interacting in such strange and funny scenarios.
Published 6 months ago by potatospam
5.0 out of 5 stars Very Cool Film
A great collection of short films with an all-star cast. Very clever, funny, and precise. The atmospheres created are excellent.
Published 7 months ago by Trophy Mule In Particular
4.0 out of 5 stars DVD fun
I really enjoy watching Coffee & Cigarettes, some really cute and/or interesting/funny scenes. Listen and watch close so you don't miss anything. Adult humor.
Published 19 months ago by Joseph X. Young
5.0 out of 5 stars A story about nothing
Coffee and Cigarettes is my introduction to the genius that is Jim Jarmusch.
And Oh boy!, I am bowled over.
What an amazing filmmaker this man is. Read more
Published on January 8, 2011 by Sourav Chatterjee
1.0 out of 5 stars SOOOO BOOOOORING!!
Boring, tedious, dull, monotonous, repetitive, unrelieved, unvaried, unimaginative, uneventful; characterless, featureless, colorless, lifeless, insipid, uninteresting, unexciting,... Read more
Published on January 3, 2011 by Amy Faust
3.0 out of 5 stars Like Life Itself, Sometimes Interesting, Sometimes Boring
The thing about Coffee and Cigarettes is that it is a movie that is completely realistic and shows conversations between people sitting around drinking coffee and smoking... Read more
Published on December 3, 2010 by Glenn Gallagher
5.0 out of 5 stars If nobody is acting it's not a movie
Well I love most of what Jim has done so I'm a little biased. I found this wonderful piece of orchestrated voyeurism delightfully entertaining, subtly amusing and mildly inspiring. Read more
Published on November 29, 2010 by M. Minecki
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