Better than Smoke!!????
wow...just seen this and enjoyed it even more than the original - which I thought was great. Some of the scenes were hilarious. Anyone else feel the same?
shareYeah, but first let me say, why compare Smoke with this. It's not fare. Think of it as a surreal sequal to Smoke. Actually, both movies were made back to back. Things I love about movie:
1) Scene between owner and Jackie Robinson.
2) Scene when guy comes in selling watches, and at the end when he comes in selling cigars, I believe.
3) Owner playing guitar at the end.
4) Rosanne was great in this.
5) Augie's block party with baby Jackie Robinson.
6) Jared Harris as Augie's employee.
7) Jim Jarmusch mimicking Germans officers smoking cigarettes.
Glad somebody feels the same way about this original movie. It was a lot of fun.
i was actually diappointed with Roseanne, but the scene where Jarmusch is smoking his last is hilarious
shareAll the ones you mentioned are great, but I can´t believe you skipped the AMAZING LOU REED MOMENTS.
best speeches ever. can someone quote them?
Yes, I'm smoking cigarettes and many of my friends have died of it. On the other hand, while I'm smoking cigarettes, I'm not downing a bottle of Scotch in 15 minutes. So looked at from this point of view, it's a health tool.
brilliant.
One of the scenes I like is Ian Frazier (New Yorker writer) talking about his bags in trees project. If you look around any city, you'll start to notice a lot of shopping bags blowing around and get stuck on trees. I've seen it all the time in Boston and Portland, ME. Ian F. and his friends made a long pole (50 feet long or whatever) to remove shopping bags from trees. Paul Auster or Wayne Wang must have heard about this and so he came on camera and talked about it.
About 10 years later, Ian Frazier wrote this article. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/01/12/bags-in-trees-a-retrospective
Here is a short article he wrote in 1993, just to give you a general idea.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/05/24/stuck-in-trees
I now live in Portland, ME, which no has a five cents a bag law. You pay five cents extra for a bag. I hardly ever get any bag at all and I think a lot of people do the same.