Good story, Not enough for a whole film

For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Communication is much more than what we say in words. The gestures, the looks, the silences or our way of sitting, often say more of us than any phrase. I do not know if talking is an excuse to drink coffee and smoke, or if coffee and smoking are excuses to talk. But it is clear that of these three vices, the biggest and most necessary is to communicate, interact, interact. Luckily, nobody has died of that.

It is cinema or art? No, its Coffee & Cigarettes. Like all great art, Coffee and Cigarettes is a deeply personal statement, and we feel privileged to share Jim Jarmusch's lens on the world.We eavesdrop over 13 seemingly ordinary and unconnected conversations over coffee and cigarettes which start to get eerily jagged and surreal as we are drawn in.The movie is a visual treat and its striking black and white images and stylized depictions of gritty diners linger in the mind long after the movie is over.I love this movie for many things: the strange and sometimes bizarre characters, its quirky sense of humor, the pop culture references, the continuing obsession with Nikola Tesla, and its ability to make the twin vices of coffee and cigarettes seem sexy.But, most of all, I love Coffee and Cigarettes because it forces the viewer to re-examine the regular and the ordinary and discover the irregular and the surreal.If this is cinema, I could get easily addicted...

Seriously, every reviewer on IMDb has crud for brains. It's a complete piece of bile tripe.The entire thing is shot in black and white, the acting is supremely sub-par, the camera work is crap. Forgivable in 99% of the indie films out there that are carried by a story. Or even engaging dialog. This movie has *NONE* of it.The vignettes are standalone (although the bit with the RZA, GZA and Bill Murray was referential), pointless and trying too hard to capture absurdist humor.The use of Black and White does not provide deep arty scenes, or work as an illustrative device. The only reason to opt for black & white is so that Art House snobs will accept it as "brilliant".I am a fan of deadpan absurdist comedy, I really am. In fact one of the biggest selling points was Steven Wright.This is not a comedy. There are half-hearted attempts (Chick who is looking at handguns, Bill Murray "hiding out" drinking a pot of coffee straight, etc), but it falls short. Waaaaaay Short.Look, I revel in "bad" films. I forced a friend to go and see "Slither" in the theaters. I have a collection of zombie movies that, if moved to a physical medium, would crush a small child. I enjoy the likes of Kafka, HS Thompson, the Vandals, Monty Python, Firesign Theater, Hedberg, etc et al.This movie is a failure, epic and tragic.

Believe it or not, but this must be one of the funnies movies I've ever seen. A mix of stories where the actors and musicians (Bill Murray, RZA, GZA, Steve Buscemi, Roberto Benigni, Jack and Meg White from The White Stipes, Tom Waits and Iggy Pop, Alfred Molina etc.), who are talking about different things while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes. You probably think you can't make a movie about that but Jarmusch succeed in bringing a fresh mix of comedy, drama, music about nothing and everything. The conversations in the movie are mostly funny (conspiracy theories about Elvis and his evil twin is one of the best), but all the stories in the movies are not all that great (I found a story with Cate Blanchett a bit boring), but most of them are bringing very unique movie. You can't believe you can make a watchable movie about drinking and smoking. Well... Jarmusch is really a genius and C & S one of my favorite movies.