Coffee and Cigarettes

I shouldn't have sat through this sorry excuse of a film. It was so boring and pointless that I don't even know why it was made. There is no story. No plot. No characters. No cohesion. I got really tired of... Full review

The movie is classic Jarmush, offering dead beat, dark humor with one of the greatest casts in years. Sure, a sketch or two fall through, but the rest make it more than worth it.Judging by the previoua reviews a lot of... Full review

They don't come along that often. And when they do, well...coffee and cigarettes prooves slow in some parts but very diverse in dialogue in others. The white stripes should have been cut from the movie, but other than that it was... Full review

This is probably one of the worst movies I have paid to see in a theatre. I was coaxed into it via the quick entertaining trailer and interesting cast of actors. But once it started I knew I was in a... Full review

I've enjoyed every other one of JJ's movies but this one did not deliver. A couple of the vignettes were clever, but all in all it was dull and went nowhere. Relying on celebrities is not enough to make a movie... Full review

This movie sucked so bad my girlfriend and I turned it off after 10 minutes. It was boring and I hated it. Do not rent this piece of *****!!!... Full review

Anybody who doesnt like this movie is a *****ing moron. If you think its to slow than you must think your life is to slow cause that what this movie is about, life. The uncomfortable silences, the witty off the cuff... Full review

This movie apears to be designed for the aspiring actor,actress/enthusiast crowd. It doesn't have a plot but rather a dozen or so 5 minutes skits of people who have gotten together for various reasons to talk over coffee and cigarettes. The... Full review

Painfully Awful! Don't be fooled into watching this movie. Cate Blanchett, Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Bill Murray, congratulations you can now tell your friends you were in the worst movie ever made.... Full review

Worst movie since Istar! Trying to get audience attraction with the old trick of a string of famous hip actors. It didn't work. Save your money!... Full review

Its tempting to say that the effect is rather like alternating cups of good coffee and bad coffee, but thats not strictly true). The best of them features Tom Waits and Iggy Pop meeting in a diner and subtly trying to one-up each other over the number of their songs on the jukebox. ... Full Review

But at its best, it distils Jarmusch's lethargic eye for the insignificant comedy of everyday life.....Steve Coogan and Alfred Molina's painfully shallow conversation about family trees and Hollywood celebrity -.... ... Full Review

But the atmosphere was always playful. So we got together the night before filming, played around a bit, and the next day shot something cartoon-like and ridiculous. ... Full Review

Funny and extremely well acted. He's annoying enough to sink a very funny script and premise (the two lock horns in a passive-aggressive duel). But in some ways, small flaws like those help the look of the movie. A very fun scene. ... Full Review

the camera, wielded by brilliant cinematographers Tom DiCillo, Frederick Elmes, Ellen Kuras.... ... Full Review

The project is no pipedream. It has already received more than $110,000 in public funding for script development from Screen Australia and Film Victoria. AFI award-winning screenwriter and playwright Stephen Sewell is on board. ... Full Article

There's a scene in the film "Coffee and Cigarettes" where Jack and Meg White, of the band the White Stripes, are discussing the Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla . The two hipsters are slouched at a table in a caf, staring ... Full Article

Frederick Elmes, ASC was born and raised in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey. He began taking still pictures of abstract objects before he was in high school, and eventually enrolled at the Rochester Institute of Technology, intending to pursue a career... ... Full Article

Coffee and Cigarettes is a return, of sorts, for Jim Jarmusch. It takes him back to the black and white, wise-vignette style filmmaking of Stranger Than Paradise (1983) or the riffs on a theme of Mystery Train (1989) and Night... ... Full Article

The Jim Jarmusch film has become almost a genre unto itself.It's an exercise in raw cinematic minimalism, populated by eccentric characters with obscure motives, and characterized by weird shifts in tone, dry humor and engrossing, improvised-sounding dialogue. ... Full Article

Like the aroma of strong, black coffee mingling with the smoke from burning tobacco, the sublime and the ridiculous are virtually inseparable in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes . ... Full Article