Coffee and Cigarettes (2003) - Precious, pleasant vignette sit-down with some wonderful people

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+ Best B/W Movie of the Year

Checkered coffee table with neat character pictures inserted, for Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes

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Coffee and Cigarettes consists of a row of human meetings over coffee and cigarettes (d'uh), carried out by a string of cool celebrities: There's vignettes with Cate Blanchett and a fictional cousin, Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan, RZA and GZA of the Wu-Tang Clan meeting Bill Murray, Jack and Meg White of The White Stripes and Iggy Pop and Tom Waits, among others. Eleven scenes in all.
Writer-director Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man (1995)) elevates the precious and random qualities of human meetings in some beautiful situations here in this little gem, which is based on three short films that Jarmusch had already made in 1986, '89 and '95, (called Coffee and Cigarettes, Coffee and Cigarettes II and Coffee and Cigarettes III), which are all three incorporated into this feature.

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Iggy Pop and Tom Waits in their segment of Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes

Watch the original trailer here

Cost: Unknown
Box office: 7.9 mil. $
= Uncertainty
[But probably a hit, with nice numbers overseas especially; the film only made 1.9 mil. $ of its revenue in the US. Coffee and Cigarettes was probably a very affordable film, seeing as 3 of the 11 scenes in it were already shot as previous shorts, and the rest are simple sit-down scenes of celebrities who are friendly admirers of Jarmusch and may even have appeared as favors, however; we don't know for sure.]

What do you think of Coffee and Cigarettes?
What is your favorite Jim Jarmusch movie?