Question: Are the directors of films Cigarettes & Coffee and Broken Blossoms both from the same country?

It was distributed by United Artists and premiered on May 13, 1919. Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl, often referred to simply as Broken Blossoms, is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith. It stars Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, and Donald Crisp, and tells the story of young girl, Lucy Burrows, who is abused by her alcoholic prizefighting father, Battling Burrows, and meets Cheng Huan, a kind- hearted Chinese man who falls in love with her. It was the first film distributed by United Artists. It is based on Thomas Burke's short story" The Chink and the Child" from the 1916 collection" Limehouse Nights". <SEP> It tells the story of five people connected through a twenty- dollar bill. The film helped launch the career of Anderson and was used as a basis for his first feature film," Hard Eight"( 1996). Cigarettes& Coffee is a 1993 short film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Philip Baker Hall. <SEP> Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. Director Bernard Vorhaus was technical supervisor. The film is based on the short story" The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke from his collection" Limehouse Nights"( 1916), and was produced at Twickenham Studios in London. The story had previously been adapted by D. W. Griffith for his film" Broken Blossoms"( 1919) starring Lillian Gish. <SEP> His films have been nominated for 25 Academy Awards, winning three for cast and crew. An alumnus of the Sundance Institute, Anderson directed his first feature film," Hard Eight", in 1996. Paul Thomas Anderson( born June 26, 1970) is an American filmmaker. He achieved critical and commercial success with" Boogie Nights"( 1997), set during the Golden Age of Porn. His 2007 film" There Will Be Blood", about an oil prospector during the Southern California oil boom, is often cited as one of the best films of the 2000s. Anderson's other films include" Magnolia"( 1999)," Punch- Drunk Love"( 2002)," The Master"( 2012)," Inherent Vice"( 2014), and" Phantom Thread"( 2017). <SEP> Widely considered as the most important filmmaker of his generation, he pioneered the feature- length movie and many enduring cinematic techniques, such as the close- up. His film" The Birth of a Nation"( 1915) broke box- office records but also attracted much controversy, as it depicted African Americans in a negative light and glorified the Ku Klux Klan. David Wark Griffith( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948) was an American film director. " Intolerance"( 1916) was made as an answer to his critics. Several of Griffith's later films were also successful, including" Broken Blossoms"( 1919)," Way Down East"( 1920), and" Orphans of the Storm"( 1921), but the high costs he incurred for production and promotion often led to commercial failure. He had made roughly 500 films by the time of his final feature," The Struggle"( 1931). Together with Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, and Douglas Fairbanks, he founded United Artists, enabling them to control their own interests, rather than depending on commercial studios. Griffith was a founder member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. <SEP> Broken Blossoms is a 1936 British drama film directed by John Brahm and starring Emlyn Williams, Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford and Edith Sharpe. Director Bernard Vorhaus was technical supervisor. The film is based on the short story" The Chink and the Child" by Thomas Burke from his collection" Limehouse Nights"( 1916), and was produced at Twickenham Studios in London. The story had previously been adapted by D. W. Griffith for his film" Broken Blossoms"( 1919) starring Lillian Gish.