Editing Coffee and Cigarettes

{{short description|2003 anthology film directed by Jim Jarmusch}}
{{distinguish|text=''[[Cigarettes & Coffee]]'', a 1993 short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson}}
{{for|the Jimmy Eat World song|Coffee and Cigarettes (song)}}{{Infobox film
| name           = Coffee and Cigarettes
| image          = Coffee_and_Cigarettes_movie.jpg
| caption        = Film poster
| director       = [[Jim Jarmusch]]
| producer       = {{plainlist|
*[[Jason Kliot]]
* Rudd Simmons
* Jim Stark 
* Cassis Birgit Staudt
*[[Joana Vicente]]
}}
| writer         = Jim Jarmusch
| starring       = {{plainlist|
*[[Roberto Benigni]]
*[[Steven Wright]]
*[[Joie Lee]]
*[[Cinqué Lee]]
*[[Steve Buscemi]]
*[[Iggy Pop]]
*[[Tom Waits]]
*[[Joseph Rigano]]
*[[Vinny Vella]]
*Vinny Vella Jr.
*Renée French
*E.J. Rodriguez
*[[Alex Descas]]
*[[Isaach de Bankolé]]
*[[Cate Blanchett]]
*[[Meg White]]
*[[Jack White (musician)|Jack White]]
*[[Alfred Molina]]
*[[Steve Coogan]]
*[[Gza|GZA]]
*[[Rza|RZA]]
*[[Bill Murray]]
*[[William "Bill" Rice|William Rice]]
*[[Taylor Mead]]
}}
| music          = 
| cinematography = {{plainlist|
*[[Frederick Elmes]] ASC
*[[Ellen Kuras]] ASC
*[[Robby Müller]]
*[[Tom Dicillo]]
}}
| editing        = {{plainlist|
*[[Jay Rabinowitz (film editor)|Jay Rabinowitz]] ACE
* Melody London
* Terry Katz
*[[Jim Jarmusch]]
}}
| studio         = [[United Artists]]
| distributor    = [[MGM Distribution Co.]]
| released       = {{Film date|2003|9|5|[[60th Venice International Film Festival|Venice]]|2004|5|14|United States}}
| runtime        = 96 minutes
| country        = USA, Japan, Italy
| language       = English<br />French
| budget         = 
| gross          = $7.9 million<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=coffeeandcigarettes.htm|title=Coffee and Cigarettes|website=[[Box Office Mojo]]|access-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref>
}}

'''''Coffee and Cigarettes''''' is a 2003 [[independent film|independent]] [[anthology film]] written and directed by [[Jim Jarmusch]]. The film consists of eleven [[short story|short stories]] which includes the earlier three short films; themes are often comedic and depressed, share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread.

== Themes ==
The film is composed of a [[comics|comic]] series of short vignettes shot in [[black and white]] built on one another to create a cumulative effect, as the characters discuss things such as [[caffeine]] popsicles, [[Paris]] in the 1920s, and the use of [[nicotine]] as an [[insecticide]] – all while sitting around drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. The theme of the film is absorption in the obsessions, joys, and addictions of life, and there are many common threads between vignettes, such as the [[Tesla coil]], medical knowledge, the suggestion that coffee and cigarettes don't make for a healthy meal (generally lunch), cousins, The Lees (Cinqué and Joie, and a mention of [[Spike Lee]]), delirium, miscommunication, musicians, the similarities between musicianship and medical skill, industrial music, acknowledged fame, and the idea of drinking coffee before sleeping in order to have fast dreams. In each of the segments of the film, the common motif of alternating black and white tiles can be seen in some fashion. The visual use of black and white relates to the theme of interpersonal contrasts, as each vignette features two people who disagree completely yet manage to sit amicably at the same table.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}

== 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.

==Reception==
On the review aggregator website [[Rotten Tomatoes]], the film has a 63% approval rating based on 122 reviews, and an average rating of 6.1/10. The site's critical consensus states: "Episodes vary in quality, but overall this talky film is quirkily engaging."<ref>{{cite web|title=Coffee and Cigarettes|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/coffee_and_cigarettes|website=Rotten Tomatoes|access-date=May 17, 2020}}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], the film has a [[weighted average]] score of 65 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/coffee-and-cigarettes/|title=Coffee and Cigarettes Reviews|website=Metacritic|access-date=October 16, 2015}}</ref> 

Several reviewers  praised the film's handling of the relationship between celebrities and fame.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Phipps |first=Keith |date=May 11, 2004 |title=Coffee And Cigarettes |url=https://www.avclub.com/coffee-and-cigarettes-1798199584 |access-date=2019-12-17 |website=The A.V. Club |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 28, 2005 |title=Coffee and Cigarettes (2004) {{!}} |url=http://cinema-crazed.com/blog/2005/08/28/coffee-and-cigarettes-2004-2/ |access-date=2019-12-17 |website=cinema-crazed.com |language=en-US}}</ref> William Thomas of [[Empire (film magazine)|''Empire'']] delighted in the "quirky conversations" and "almost nostalgic air", but felt the film suffered from an occasional lack of focus and an uneven structure.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date= January 2000|title=Coffee and Cigarettes |url=https://www.empireonline.com/movies/reviews/coffee-cigarettes-review/ |access-date=2019-12-17 |website=Empire |language=en}}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] commended the film's tempo, writing that "none of these 11 vignettes overstays its welcome, although a few seem to lose their way".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=May 28, 2004 |title=Coffee and Cigarettes movie review (2004) |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/coffee-and-cigarettes-2004 |access-date=2019-12-17 |website=www.rogerebert.com |language=en}}</ref> Philip French of ''[[The Guardian]]'' criticized several segments, but praised the three in which "people appear as versions of themselves ... Iggy Pop meeting Tom Waits; Cate Blanchett (in both roles) having a reunion with an envious cousin; Alfred Molina taking tea with Steve Coogan in Hollywood".<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 24, 2004 |title=Coffee and Cigarettes {{!}} Reviews |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Observer_review/0,,1334613,00.html |access-date=2019-12-17 |website=The Guardian}}</ref>

=== Accolades ===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+
!Award
!Date
!Category
!Recipient(s)
!Result
!Ref.
|-
|[[Jeonju International Film Festival]]
|May 2, 2004
|Audience Award
|''Coffee and Cigarettes''
|{{Won}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=JEONJU Intl. Film Festival |url=https://eng-archive.jeonjufest.kr/db/festivalList.asp?EP_NUM=5 |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=eng-archive.jeonjufest.kr}}</ref>
|-
|[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]]
|[[2004 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|December 11, 2004]]
|[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
| rowspan="3" |[[Cate Blanchett]] (also for ''[[The Aviator (2004 film)|The Aviator]]'')
|{{draw|Runner-up}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=www.adam-makes-websites.com |first=Adam Jones- |title=Awards for 2004 - LAFCA |url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/2004.php |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=www.lafca.net}}</ref>
|-
|[[National Society of Film Critics]]
|[[2004 National Society of Film Critics Awards|January 9, 2005]]
|[[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
|{{draw|Runner-up}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |title="Million Dollar" critics' group picks its 2004 baby {{!}} Roger Ebert {{!}} Roger Ebert |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/roger-ebert/million-dollar-critics-group-picks-its-2004-baby |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=Rogerebert.com |date=19 December 2012 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Vancouver Film Critics Circle]]
|[[Vancouver Film Critics Circle Awards 2004|February 20, 2005]]
|[[Vancouver Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress]]
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |date=2005-02-20 |title=5th Annual Award Winners |url=https://vancouverfilmcritics.com/2005/02/20/5th-annual-award-winners/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |language=en}}</ref>
|-
|[[Independent Spirit Awards]]
|[[20th Independent Spirit Awards|February 26, 2005]]
|[[Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Female|Best Supporting Female]]
| rowspan="2" |Cate Blanchett
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Indiewire |date=2004-12-01 |title="Sideways" and "Maria Full of Grace" Lead Spirit Award Nominations |url=https://www.indiewire.com/news/general-news/sideways-and-maria-full-of-grace-lead-spirit-award-nominations-78521/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=IndieWire |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="3" |[[Chlotrudis Society for Independent Films|Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film]]
| rowspan="3" |March 20, 2005
|Best Supporting Actress
|{{Nominated}}
| rowspan="3" |<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-09-24 |title=2005, 11th Annual Awards, March 20, 2005 |url=https://chlotrudis.org/awards/past-awards/2005-11th-annual-awards-march-20-2005/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=Chlotrudis Society for Independent Film |language=en-US}}</ref>
|-
|Best Supporting Actor
|[[Alfred Molina]]
|{{Nominated}}
|-
|Best Cast
| rowspan="3" |''Coffee and Cigarettes''
|{{Nominated}}
|-
|[[Russian National Movie Awards]]
|2005
|Best Independent Movie
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |last=Awards (georges@cinemafia.ru) |first=Georges Movie |title=2005 Georges Winners |url=http://www.national-movie-awards.ru/eng/winners/2005/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=Georges Movie Awards |language=English}}</ref>
|-
|[[Sun in a Net Awards]]
|2006
|Best Foreign Language Film
|{{Nominated}}
|<ref>{{Cite web |title=Sun in a Net Awards, Slovakia (2006) |url=http://www.imdb.com/event/ev0004514/2006/1/ |access-date=2023-11-07 |website=IMDb}}</ref>
|}

==Soundtrack==
{{div col|colwidth=35em}}
*[[Louie Louie]] - Written by [[Richard Berry (musician)|Richard Berry]] - Performed by Richard Berry & [[The Pharaohs]]
*Saw Sage - Written by Tom Waits / [[Ron Waters]] / D. Devore / Tom Nunn / B. Hopkin - Performed by C-SIDE / Tom Waits
*Serenade to Nalani - Written & Performed by [[Jerry Byrd]]
*Lonesome Road - Written by Doug Wood
*Ich Bin der Welt Abhanden Gekommen (I Have Lost Track of the World) - Composed by [[Gustav Mahler]] - Lyrics by [[Friedrich Rückert]] - Performed by [[Janet Baker]] and The New Philharmonia Orchestra
*Paauau Waltz - Written by John U. Iosepa - Performed by Jerry Byrd
*Hanalei Moon - Written by [[Bob Nelson (songwriter)|Bob Nelson]] - Performed by Jerry Byrd
*Baden-Baden - Written by [[Milt Jackson]] and [[Ray Brown (musician)|Ray Brown]] (as Raymond M. Brown) - Performed by [[Modern Jazz Quartet]]
*Crimson and Clover - Written by [[Tommy James]] and Peter P. Lucia Jr. - Performed by Tommy James & [[The Shondells]]
*Down on the Street - Written by [[Iggy Pop]] / [[Ron Asheton]] / [[Scott Asheton]] / David Alexander - Performed by [[The Stooges]]
*Nimblefoot Ska - Written by [[Coxsone Dodd]] - Performed by [[The Skatalites]]
*Set Back (Just Cool) - Written by Coxsone Dodd - Performed by [[Roland Alphonso]] and Carol McLaughlin
*Streets of Gold - Written by Coxsone Dodd - Performed by Roland Alphonso and the Soul Vendors
*Enna Bella - Written by [[Eric "Monty" Morris|Eric Morris]], Coxsone Dodd - Performed by Eric "Monty" Morris
*A Joyful Process - Written by [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] and [[Bernie Worrell]] - Performed by [[Funkadelic]]
*Fantazias for the Viols - Written by [[Henry Purcell]] - Performed by [[Fretwork]]
*Nappy Dugout - Written by [[George Clinton (funk musician)|George Clinton]] / [[Cordell Mosson]] / [[Garry Shider]] - Performed by Funkadelic
*Louie Louie - Written by Richard Berry - Performed by [[Iggy Pop]]<ref>{{cite book |last= Piazza |first= Sara|date= 2015|url=http://jimjarmusch-musicwordsandnoise.com |title= Jim Jarmusch: Music, Words and Noise|location= UK |publisher= Reaktion Books|page=394 |isbn=9781780234694}}</ref>
{{div col end}}

== See also ==
*[[List of films shot over three or more years]]

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
*{{IMDb title|id=0379217|title=Coffee and Cigarettes}}

{{Jim Jarmusch}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Coffee And Cigarettes}}
[[Category:2003 films]]
[[Category:2003 comedy films]]
[[Category:2003 independent films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Jim Jarmusch]]
[[Category:American anthology films]]
[[Category:Films about smoking]]
[[Category:Films about coffee]]
[[Category:Short Film Palme d'Or winners]]
[[Category:American black-and-white films]]
[[Category:United Artists films]]
[[Category:Cultural depictions of Nikola Tesla]]