Do not forget that smoking is prohibited in the movie theater, and it is recommended to drink coffee before the screening begins?
Cult American independent film director Jim Jarmusch presents 17 years of filmed work - 11 short stories in which famous actors and musicians smoke cigarettes, drink coffee and talk about a wide variety of things.
The celebrities who appear in the 6 - 12-minute unrelated videos play themselves and fictional characters.
The director hypothesizes that Elvis Presley had a twin brother who wrote particularly bad songs, wittily mocks his colleague Spike Jonze and other filmmakers and actors, mocks the movie business and celebrity life, discusses human relationships, medicine and music , the inventor Nikola Tesla, the culture of different nations, various feelings, informs you how to make a lollipop from caffeine and what can happen if you only have coffee and cigarettes for lunch...
The first episode "It's strange to meet you" with the then little-known Italian comedian Roberto Benigni was filmed in 1986 and tells the story of Roberto, a neurotic man who is terribly afraid of going to the dentist and begs a stranger in a cafe, Steven, to do it for him (Steven Wright).
In the ironic and unpredictable story "Relatives?" American actor Alfred Molina plays the eccentric Alfred, who kindly and politely explains to Steve that according to the family tree, they are both members of the same family, linked by a great-grandfather who lived in Italy many years ago.
Australian actress Cate Blanchett created two very different roles in the short story "Relatives" - the popular movie star Kate and her jealous half-sister Shelby. Having spared a few minutes, Keitė meets a relative, to whom she presents a luxurious perfume. But jealous half-sister Shelby suspects the arrogant movie star got the ill-fated gift from his sponsors.
In the short story "Twins", actor Steve Buscemi plays an angry and irritated waiter who does not leave his only customers, twins (Joie Lee and Cinque Lee), alone and tries to convince them that Elvis Presley also had a twin brother.
Friends Tom (Tom Waits) and Iggy (Iggy Pop) who met in a pub somewhere in California try unsuccessfully to convince each other that they don't smoke anymore and find out which of them is the better musician.
A waiter played by the improvisational comedian Bill Murray in the highly entertaining short story "Delusion" serves a group of blacks (played by rappers RZA, GZA and other members of the Wu-Tang Clan) who boldly discuss the methods of forbidden medicine and enjoy the taste of tea, because coffee "only makes people delusional".
On the other hand, in another short story, Meg and Jack White of the group "The White Stripes" carefully and thoroughly examine the advantages of the invention of the physicist-philosopher Nikola Tesla over a cup of coffee.
In the final novella, "Champagne," actor Taylor Mead and his co-star Bill Rice pretend cups of iced coffee are champagne and imagine themselves dining on the banks of the Seine in 1930s Paris.
"Nicotine and caffeine are very strong poisons that many people use legally," says Jim Jarmusch, who has repeatedly emphasized that drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes is harmful.
He filmed all the situations in black and white because black symbolizes coffee and white symbolizes cigarettes.