TV Guide: Roberto Benigni

Video: Coffee And Cigarettes

Hulu — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 03:08:20 -0400

Jim Jarmusch started Coffee & Cigarettes in 1986 with a six-minute improvised caprice starring Steven Wright and Roberto Benigni. Two guys meet in a coffee bar to sip, smoke and chat. Jarmusch has continued the series over the years.

Video: 'Coffee and Cigarettes' - Clip No. 3

AOL Moviefone — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:21:11 -0400

Director Jim Jarmusch spent 20 years, in between feature shoots, filming actors such as Bill Murray, Roberto Benigni, and Cate Blanchett in several black and white short films that have nothing in common with each other except that they center on coffee and cigarettes and the talking that men and women do over them. -

Video: 'Coffee and Cigarettes' - Clip No. 2

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Video: 'Coffee and Cigarettes' - Clip No. 1

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Video: 'Coffee and Cigarettes' - Trailer No. 1

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Video: Coffee And Cigarettes

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:51:33 -0400

Jim Jarmusch's black-and-white feature Coffee and Cigarettes contains three vignettes originally released as short films along with separate yet somewhat related sketches. As the title suggests, most of the vignettes involve famous people smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee. The first, Coffee and Cigarettes, is a six-minute short from 1986 starring Stephen Wright and Roberto Benigni. The 1989 installment, Memphis Version, stars Steve Buscemi, Joie Lee, and Cinqu Lee. The award-winning 1993 segment, Somewhere in California, stars musicians Iggy Pop and Tom Waits. The remaining sketches include Cate Blanchett performing a duel role, a conversation with Bill Murray and members of the Wu-Tang Clan, and Alfred Molina and British television actor Steve Coogan as themselves. In its full-length version form, Coffee and Cigarettes was shown at the {~2003 Venice Film Festival}. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide.

Video: Down By Law

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:54:48 -0400

Jim Jarmusch follows his groundbreaking Stranger Than Paradise with another rambling, character-driven film with a twisted sense of humor. Set in a seedy New Orleans summer, Down By Law details the meeting of three unlikely convicts and their just as unlikely escape. Zack (Tom Waits) is an out-of-work DJ who is accused of murder when a body is found in the trunk of a stolen car he was hired to drive across town. Jack (John Lurie) is a pimp set up for a fall by a competitor. These two sullen souls are locked in a cell with Roberto (Roberto Benigni), a cheerful Italian immigrant who happens to have killed a man. The chemistry between the members of this loosely bound team is fascinating: Zack and Jack are forever laughing at Roberto, yet they rely on his energy and good will to escape their dire situation. The three mismatched miscreants eventually bust out of jail and head into the Louisiana bayous. Tired and hungry, they separate to search for food: Waits goes one way, Lurie another, and the frightened Beni

Video: Historical Hostility

iTunes — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 04:47:24 -0400

Moses vs. The Pharaoh, William Shakespeare vs. Busta Rhymes, Groucho Marx vs. John Wayne, Benito Mussolini vs. Roberto Benigni, Jack The Ripper vs. Sherlock Holmes, Mankind vs. Ernest Hemingway, Chyna vs. Albert Einstein, Charlie Chaplin vs. Buster Keaton