Coffee and cigarettes jack white biography

2003 anthology film directed by Jim Jarmusch

Not to be confused with Cigarettes & Coffee, a 1993 short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

For the Jimmy Eat World song, see Coffee and Cigarettes (song).

Coffee and Cigarettes is the title of three short films and a 2003 feature-length anthology film by independent film director Jim Jarmusch.

The feature film consists of 11 short stories which share coffee and cigarettes as a common thread, and includes the earlier three short films.

Themes

The film is composed of a 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 be