Coffee and Cigarettes
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Movie Reviews of Coffee and Cigarettes
Movie Review: If you don't have an advanced degree, don't bother.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a film that the proletariat will not get. It's themes are deeper and more complex than the average person will be able to grasp. Its depth can be measured only by comparing it the Marianas Trench. And in deference to the film, I think every DVD or VHS of this film should be dropped down there.
Robert Benigni and Steven Wright's opening number will tickle your funny bone and make you shake your head in delightful confusion and sympathy for these seemingly talented performers. It may confound you and make you think that it's an unintelligible, self-referential piece of tripe, but YOU would be wrong. Then there's Jack and Meg White's tip of the hat to Nikola Tesla. This is heart-wrenching stuff. Those of you who aren't knocked to the floor with the dramatic weight of this scene must have ice-water in your veins. Yes, the Whites are musicians, but here they'll play your heartstrings like some sort of woodwind instrument. An emotional triumph.
Overall, I can't write enough about the fecundity of this feature. Jim Jarmusch is an auteur. He must of had one heck of a pitch to get financing for this picture, because on the surface it has no redeeming qualities. But if you dare to look a little deeper and spend some more time with it, you might just find that your initial interpretation was correct.
Movie Review: Just to make clear, it's a four star movie though all the lousy one star reviews needed to be counter balanced
Summary: 5 Stars
As I had stated in the title, this is a solid 3 1/2 to 4 star piece of entertainment. This is the type of film you can just place in your DVD player and watch on and off as you find time. While each segment is far from created equal, some do actually border on the brilliantly comic. My I highlight the obvious? Tom Waits and Iggy Pop have fantastic chemistry together during their sketch, this is probably due to the rapport the to artists most likely share for one another in real life. Cate Blanchett's sketch is something of a tour de force seeings how she's playing opposite only herself. Now while this has been done numerous times by other actors (Nicholas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Ewan McGregor etc.) it's never and easy task, especially since she manages to bring weight and pathos to both characters, one being herself and the other being her fairly "trashy" cousin. Other highlights include Steve Coogan with Alfred Molina and Renee French with E.J. Rodriguez, with others being a mixed bag though never less than mildly enjoyable. In fact, the whole thing sort of plays like an elitist, hipster version of a sketch comedy show, with each sketch centering around the use of coffee and cigarettes, cause when it all comes down to it it's all about the vibe this collection creates. The mood for good friends, coffee, and cigarettes.Movie Review: doosh bag reviewers are too cool for school
Summary: 5 Stars
It is funny to me that the moment something becomes popular (i.e. jim jarmusch) that the only way for the cool to remain pretentiously cooler than everybody else is to write silly and pendantic reviews where they bash the new. the movie is not boring, the people who watch it are boring and they are so used to watching commercials and experiencing cheap cinematic ejaculation that they never actually pay attention to what they are watching. if something isnt layed out in their grubby palms then they complain for having to work for it. guess what, the one redeeming quality of this movie is exactly that, it makes you work for it.
all of the characters in this express crystaline reflections of there selves refracting off the forever frozen prism that is jarmusch's world. he sets the actors into floating scenes regarding one of the last great american traditions left. coffee and cigarettes. maybe it's because i read primarily that i was able to appreciate this movie but i personally feel that in a country that has struggled for its identity since its birth that jarmusch has captured a fragment of its essence. a beautiful work of american impressionism, and f@#$ all the haters...
Movie Review: Brilliant Piece of Cinematography
Summary: 5 Stars
If ever there was a film to polarize an audience this is it. Some will see it as unfathomable and boring, others will see it as an absolute gem. I'm with the latter group. Off the top the quality of the filming is superb. Wonderful rich black and white compositions filmed with quirky and off kilter crops. The cast is impressive Albert Molina, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Bill Murray to name just a few. Each performs an odd cameo piece in a stark documentary style. Everything feels ad-libbed with long awkward pauses and strange twists of conversations. One scene consists solely of a beautiful woman (Renee French) smoking a cigarette, reading a magazine and trying to stop the waiter from refilling her cup. It's almost 10 minutes long. Another scene has two Wiseguys swearing at each other as one tries to persuade the other to quite smoking. A lot of people will be squirming in their seats waiting for something to happen in this movie and it never does. Instead we are given the chance to eavesdrop on a series of social interactions which occur with a sense of reality and end as abruptly as they started. It really is a masterpiece, but not everyone will know it.Movie Review: ethnography and psychology in the vastness of a gesture
Summary: 5 Stars
The movie is almost an impossible project... The set is made of one table, a couple of chairs, few cups of coffee and no more than 10-15 square feet of space around them. The camera is usually fixed and the picture is black and white. Jim Jarmusch uses these self-imposed limitations (reminiscent of Danish Dogma) only to prove what we usually forget: beauty is most of the times in details and in their good measure and there is much suspense in each gesture. The actors are absolutely formidable. The humor is pervasive but minimalist allowing the epilogue to take place on Mahler's music. One brief remark on the ethnographical value that is present in every movie made by JJ. The movie functions very well as a display of his vast collection of impressions and travel notes: jukebokes, cofee mugs, tables, table clothes (very meticulously different from one scene to another), lipsticks, waiter's caps, etc. It reminds us of Nabokov's passion for collecting buterflies. How does Jarmusch catch his luna moths?