Jim Jarmusch at the Arclight on April 19th, 2004.

Rating: 8/10 (19 April 2004)

Tonight Jim Jarmusch provided commentary after the screening of Coffee and Cigarettes. In the audience was Eddie Izzard and Wim Wenders. Steve Coogan also took a few questions from the audience.
This film had its original start as short film for Saturday Night Live. The film evolved into a series of eleven Coffee and Cigarette dialogues. Jarmusch described the process of familiar themes matched with different combinations of characters like playing a chess game. Lot of checkered patterns in this film. The actors all had a shot in helping develop the characters. Tom Waits improvised his discussion of music and medicine. Tesla is a reoccurring theme because both Jack White and Jarmusch share a fascination with Nikola Tesla's discovery of terrestrial stationary waves.