Editing Coffee and Cigarettes (section)

== Plot segments ==
=== Strange to Meet You ===
<!--  Commented out because image was deleted: [[Image:CoffeeandCigarettesSegment1.jpg|left|125px|thumb|{{deletable image-caption|1=Thursday, 1 November  2007}}]] -->
This is the original 1986 short ''Coffee and Cigarettes'' with [[Roberto Benigni]] and [[Steven Wright]] having a conversation about coffee and cigarettes. Steven tells Roberto about his coffee ideas, such as freezing it into "caffeine Popsicles" for kids, and how he likes to drink coffee right before he goes to sleep so he can dream faster "like a camera on those [[Indy 500]] cars". Roberto does not understand anything he says but is entertained to listen. They experiment with switching chairs, but decide to switch back again. Steven suddenly remembers he has a dentist appointment that he is afraid to go to, but has to. Roberto happily volunteers and goes instead of him.

=== Twins ===
Originally the 1989 short ''Coffee and Cigarettes, Memphis Version'' (aka ''Coffee and Cigarettes II'') segment featured [[Joie Lee]] and [[Cinqué Lee]] as the titular twins and [[Steve Buscemi]] as Danny the barman who expounds on his theory on [[Elvis Presley]]'s evil twin. The scene also features a recounting of the urban legend that Elvis Presley made racist comments about African Americans during a magazine interview.<ref name="Guralnick, 2007">{{cite news |last1=Guralnick |first1=Peter |title=Was Elvis a racist? Let the record sing for itself |url=https://www.chron.com/entertainment/article/Was-Elvis-a-racist-Let-the-record-sing-for-itself-1811271.php |access-date=23 September 2021 |work=Houston Chronicle |date=16 August 2007}}</ref>

Cinqué Lee also appears in "Jack Shows Meg his Tesla Coil" later in the film.

=== Somewhere in California ===
{{main|Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California}}
Filmed in 1993 as the short ''Coffee and Cigarettes - Somewhere in California'', and won the [[Short Film Palme d'Or]] at the [[Cannes Film Festival]].<ref>{{Cite news |title=With 'Coffee,' Jim Jarmusch lacks for rush |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |first=Mark |last=Caro |date=May 28, 2004 |url=http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/review/movie-review-coffee-and/158893/content |access-date=May 10, 2009 |quote=But then 1992's "Somewhere in California," which won the Cannes Film Festival's short-film Palme D'Or, offers the delicious spectacle of [Iggy Pop] and [Tom Waits] meeting in some remote dumpy bar, with Iggy playing the shaggy, eager-to-please puppy while the edgy Waits finds ways to take constant umbrage. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817011226/http://chicago.metromix.com/movies/review/movie-review-coffee-and/158893/content |archive-date=August 17, 2009 }}</ref> In this segment musicians [[Iggy Pop]] and [[Tom Waits]] smoke cigarettes to celebrate that they quit smoking, drink some coffee and make awkward conversation. At various points each musician remarks that the other is not on the jukebox, though Iggy Pop's music can be heard on a jukebox in another segment later in the film.

=== Those Things'll Kill Ya ===
[[Joseph Rigano]] and [[Vinny Vella]] have a conversation over coffee about the dangers of smoking. The silent Vinny Vella Jr. also appears to beg his father for money, which is given in exchange for affection, which is not provided.

=== Renée ===
Renée French (played by herself) drinks coffee while looking through a gun magazine. [[E. J. Rodríguez]] plays the waiter, who is eager to be of service. He initially approaches her to serve more coffee, to which she reacts by saying "I had the right color, right temperature, it was just right". After that, he comes back several times, hesitates, and leaves. He seems intent on striking up a conversation with her.

=== No Problem ===
[[Alex Descas]] and [[Isaach De Bankolé]] are a couple of friends who meet and talk over some coffee and cigarettes. Alex has no problems, or so he answers to Isaach's repeated questioning.  At the end of the scene, Alex takes out a pair of dice and rolls three sets of doubles. 
It could be assumed that he has a gambling problem but to him it appears to be a non-issue. Despite this, he doesn't roll the dice in front of his friend.

=== Cousins ===
[[Cate Blanchett]] plays herself and a fictional and non-famous cousin named Shelly, whom she meets over some coffee in the lounge of a hotel. There is no smoking in the lounge, as the waiter informs Shelly (but not until Cate is gone).  Shelly tells Cate about her boyfriend, Lee, who is in a band.  She describes the music style as hard industrial, similar to the band Iggy describes.  Cate tells Shelly she looks forward to meeting "Lou" someday. Cate is made to feel awkward and uncomfortable by Shelly's constant envious remarks about how she perceives Cate's life and attitude.

=== Jack Shows Meg His Tesla Coil ===
This short features [[Jack White (musician)|Jack]] and [[Meg White]] of the band [[The White Stripes]] having some coffee and cigarettes.  They play themselves, although the scene seems to perpetuate the band's former pretense that they are indeed siblings. Jack shows Meg his [[Tesla coil]] that he says he built himself and waxes intellectual on the achievements of [[Nikola Tesla]]. In the beginning, Jack seems upset that Meg doesn't share his excitement, and it takes Meg some coaxing to get Jack to agree to show Meg his Tesla coil. He introduces the line, "Nikola Tesla perceived the earth to be a conductor of acoustical resonance."  Cinqué Lee plays a waiter in this segment. In the end, the coil breaks, and Meg and the Waiter offer suggestions as to why it might be broken. Finally Meg says something that Jack seems to agree to, and he leaves to "go home and check it out". Meg clinks her coffee cup to produce a ringing noise, pauses, says "Earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance" and clinks her coffee cup to produce the noise again; she looks pensively out into the distance before a cut to black. Early during the segment, "Down on the Street" by Iggy Pop's band [[The Stooges]] is played on the jukebox in the background.

=== Cousins? ===
British actors [[Alfred Molina]] and [[Steve Coogan]] have a conversation over some tea. (Coogan offers Molina a French cigarette, but Molina saves his for later.) Molina is a very enthusiastic fan of Coogan's, who contrarily is very uninterested at their meeting and barely manages to hide this. Molina excitedly shares with him research he came across, learning that they are distant cousins, and proposes a friendship or show business project to capitalize on this. Steve Coogan still remains evasive, lightening up only when an attractive female fan recognizes him. He later tries to make up excuses to keep from ever having to hear from Alfred Molina again, and then clumsily tries to reverse this when he overhears Molina get a call from good friend [[Spike Jonze]]. But it is too late and Molina, disappointed, leaves Coogan with the bill. Although the scene is set in LA, the segment was actually shot in Brooklyn at Galapagos, Williamsburg.

=== Delirium ===
Hip-hop artists (and cousins) [[Gza|GZA]] and [[Rza|RZA]] of the [[Wu-Tang Clan]] drink naturally caffeine-free [[herbal tea]] and have a conversation with the waiter, [[Bill Murray]], about the dangers of caffeine and nicotine. During this conversation, GZA makes a reference to how he would drink much coffee before going to bed so his dreams would "whip by" similar to the camera-shots at the [[Indianapolis 500|Indy 500]], very similar to the same reference that Steven Wright did in the first segment. Murray requests that GZA and RZA keep his identity secret, while GZA and RZA inform Murray about nontraditional methods to relieve his smoker's hack.

=== Champagne ===
[[William "Bill" Rice]] and [[Taylor Mead]] spend their coffee break having a nostalgic conversation, while [[Janet Baker]] singing "Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen" from [[Gustav Mahler|Mahler]]'s [[Rückert-Lieder]] appears from nowhere.  William Rice repeats Jack White's line, "Nikola Tesla perceived the earth as a conductor of acoustical resonance." It is possible to interpret the relevance of this line to the constant recurrent themes throughout the seemingly unconnected segments.