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

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……

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.

Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.

入围第89届奥斯卡最佳动画短片，导演罗伯特费里。 塔克是个边缘人物，有一颗破碎的心与成长过程，他爱喝酒与抽烟，喜欢打架闹事，他最后沦落到中国广州的某间军事医院，等待换肝手术。 本片短片剧情根据导演认识的朋友，其真实故事改编所制作。

影片讲述了上世纪六十年代末，年轻珠宝商尤金尼奥在巴塞罗那的一辆公共汽车上遇到美丽的康奇塔后，他们立刻坠入爱河。尤金尼奥学会了弹吉他，为康奇塔的音乐生涯伴奏，为此他不得不与舞台恐惧作斗争。而当康奇塔不得不离开两周时，她说服尤金尼奥自己登台表演。出人意料的是，当她回来时，他已经在这个城市的地下喜剧场的演出中引起了轰动。

《比萨，啤酒与香烟》是一部尖锐的具有记录风格的剧情片，捕捉了布宜诺斯艾利斯贫困地区生活的混乱状态，展示出来自南美洲的新锐导演天赋。