Coffee and Cigarettes
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Roberto Benigni…was included in the well-received Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), a collection of vignettes centring on the consumption of the eponymous addictive substances. He later directed, cowrote, and starred in La tigre e la neve (2005; The Tiger and the Snow), which treats the Iraq War in much the same way…
Read More…was included in the well-received Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), a collection of vignettes centring on the consumption of the eponymous addictive substances. He later directed, cowrote, and starred in La tigre e la neve (2005; The Tiger and the Snow), which treats the Iraq War in much the same way…
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Steve BuscemiFilm career: Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, and The Big LebowskiHis later notable films include Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), featuring vignettes of people talking, and The Dead Don’t Die (2019), a horror-comedy in which a small town is attacked by zombies. Both were written and directed by independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, a frequent collaborator who once said of Buscemi, “He…
Read MoreHis later notable films include Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), featuring vignettes of people talking, and The Dead Don’t Die (2019), a horror-comedy in which a small town is attacked by zombies. Both were written and directed by independent filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, a frequent collaborator who once said of Buscemi, “He…
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(1992), Mystery Men (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), and Domino (2005). His saturnine features and gravelly voice perfectly suited him to Mephistophelian roles, and he deployed these attributes to memorable effect as one of the “people in charge” of purgatory in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) and as the…
Read More(1992), Mystery Men (1999), Coffee and Cigarettes (2003), and Domino (2005). His saturnine features and gravelly voice perfectly suited him to Mephistophelian roles, and he deployed these attributes to memorable effect as one of the “people in charge” of purgatory in Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006) and as the…
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