A major portion of "Cigarettes and Coffee" was later adapted, expanded and basically re-made into p.t. Anderson's first feature film, "Hard Eight". The most interesting part of "Cigarettes" was later used as the first scene for "Hard Eight"--in both Phillip Baker Hall's character interrogates a young drifter in a roadside diner and explains a few things about life and the art of conversation to him. In "Hard Eight" the two then go on to have a father-son type relationship in a fairly straightforward narrative (the most straightforward of any of p.t.'s later films). Here in the seminal "Cigarettes and Coffee", however, Baker Hall's conversation with the young man is only one of three happening simultaneously in the diner. P.T. cuts between the three, and we soon learn that the lives of the three seemingly-unrelated sets of characters do actually intersect in unexpectd ways. In this way, the short film is much more like the director's recent Altman-inspired "Magnolia" than it it either "Hard Eight" or "Boogie Nights." "Cigarettes and Coffee" has played on The Sundance Channel (or was it The Independent Film Channel?) quite frequently.

A major portion of "Cigarettes and Coffee" was later adapted, expanded and basically re-made into p.t. Anderson's first feature film, "Hard Eight". The most interesting part of "Cigarettes" was later used as the first scene for "Hard Eight"--in both Phillip Baker Hall's character interrogates a young drifter in a roadside diner and explains a few things about life and the art of conversation to him. In "Hard Eight" the two then go on to have a father-son type relationship in a fairly straightforward narrative (the most straightforward of any of p.t.'s later films). Here in the seminal "Cigarettes and Coffee", however, Baker Hall's conversation with the young man is only one of three happening simultaneously in the diner. P.T. cuts between the three, and we soon learn that the lives of the three seemingly-unrelated sets of characters do actually intersect in unexpectd ways. In this way, the short film is much more like the director's recent Altman-inspired "Magnolia" than it it either "Hard Eight" or "Boogie Nights." "Cigarettes and Coffee" has played on The Sundance Channel (or was it The Independent Film Channel?) quite frequently.

Golden Bear for Best Short Film (win) - - 2004 Berlin International Film Festival

Golden Bear for Best Short Film (win) - - 2004 Berlin International Film Festival

本片是由11个黑白短片综合而成的短篇集，每个短片都围绕咖啡与香烟展开。 　　一。罗伯托·贝尼尼（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰）坐在一家咖啡馆喝着咖啡，史蒂夫·赖特（史蒂夫·赖特 Steven Wright 饰）过来与他攀谈，然而两人似乎没有什么共同语言 ，只在重复表达对咖啡与香烟的热爱…… 　　二。一家咖啡厅里坐着一对黑人双胞胎兄妹，咖啡厅服务员突然对他们很感兴趣，即坐下与之热情交谈，然而兄妹俩似乎对这个不知所云的人毫无兴趣，只在继续抽烟喝咖啡…… 　　三。加利福尼亚某处的一家咖啡馆，流行歌手伊基·波普（伊基·波普 Iggy Pop 饰）与汤姆·威兹（汤姆·威兹 Tom Waits 饰）正在以抽烟的方式庆祝他们戒烟成功。该短片曾获1993年戛纳电影节短片单元金棕榈奖。 　　…… 　　十一。这天夜里，喝着速溶咖啡、抽着卷烟的两个老人William Rice（William Rice 饰）与Taylor Mead（Taylor Mead 饰）谈论起过去的音乐。在这个有些忧伤的话题进行到一半时，Taylor像孩子般熟睡过去了……

本片是由11个黑白短片综合而成的短篇集，每个短片都围绕咖啡与香烟展开。 　　一。罗伯托·贝尼尼（罗伯托·贝尼尼 Roberto Benigni 饰）坐在一家咖啡馆喝着咖啡，史蒂夫·赖特（史蒂夫·赖特 Steven Wright 饰）过来与他攀谈，然而两人似乎没有什么共同语言 ，只在重复表达对咖啡与香烟的热爱…… 　　二。一家咖啡厅里坐着一对黑人双胞胎兄妹，咖啡厅服务员突然对他们很感兴趣，即坐下与之热情交谈，然而兄妹俩似乎对这个不知所云的人毫无兴趣，只在继续抽烟喝咖啡…… 　　三。加利福尼亚某处的一家咖啡馆，流行歌手伊基·波普（伊基·波普 Iggy Pop 饰）与汤姆·威兹（汤姆·威兹 Tom Waits 饰）正在以抽烟的方式庆祝他们戒烟成功。该短片曾获1993年戛纳电影节短片单元金棕榈奖。 　　…… 　　十一。这天夜里，喝着速溶咖啡、抽着卷烟的两个老人William Rice（William Rice 饰）与Taylor Mead（Taylor Mead 饰）谈论起过去的音乐。在这个有些忧伤的话题进行到一半时，Taylor像孩子般熟睡过去了……

A 40 year old man who has celebrated his birthday alone by himself invites his four lovers to a dance class that he teaches in order to search for the roots of his own loneliness and by reminiscing the memories of how each of his love affairs were evolved and diminished, he realizes that the more the contemporary world has become sexually oriented the farther it has moved away from love..

A 40 year old man who has celebrated his birthday alone by himself invites his four lovers to a dance class that he teaches in order to search for the roots of his own loneliness and by reminiscing the memories of how each of his love affairs were evolved and diminished, he realizes that the more the contemporary world has become sexually oriented the farther it has moved away from love..

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't seem to know each other very well and they don't have much to talk about, so the conversation wanders idly and hilariously as they sip their coffee and smoke cigarettes.