Coffee and Cigarettes is a feature-length anthology film shot in black and white focusing on the human interactions that happen while partaking in the everyday indulgence of coffee and cigarettes.

For some smokers, the first cigarette of the day is just not as satisfying without a cup of coffee. That could be more than just a morning habit: Chemical compounds in roasted coffee beans may help ...

The question I have been asked more than any other in my adult life is, “which authors have influenced your writing?” As with any frequently asked question, I have a stock answer. It begins with Franz ...

In a vignette called "Strange to meet you," Roberto sits at a small table in a coffee bar. Five cups of coffee and two ashtrays are in front of him; he drinks and smokes. Steven joins him. They start ...

Smokers in the throes of nicotine withdrawal when they wake up in the morning may crave not just a cigarette but a cup of coffee along with it. Science can explain that. Researchers have identified ...

When “Stranger than Paradise” sidled onto the scene in 1983, Jim Jarmusch became an instant indie cult figure. Since then, the release of each new Jarmusch film has become something of an event, and ...

This shortcut repeats the structure of Coffee and Cigarettes. This time, Iggy Pop and Tom Waits meet in a bar. But, again, we don't know why they agreed to do that in the first place, because they don ...

Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes, a series of eleven self-contained black-and-white episodes shot over a period of seventeen years, is oddly all of a piece. What unites everything is Jarmusch’s ...