Cigarettes and Coffee by Paul Thomas Anderson (1/3)

[LennLucky]

He has a budget of 20.000 dollar, where did he get the great actors?

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

You can already see hints of the visual style he was developing, the close-ups and everything. It must've been nice to have connections, to be able to get Philip Baker Hall in a short movie before anyone had even heard of you, haha.

[MckyMseNTarotCrds]

You can already see hints of the visual style he was developing, the close-ups and everything.

[cratedigger89]

God, I wish they'd include this on a DVD.

[sethsells]

this is actually a copy of a film by jim jarmush called coffee and cigarettes

[toddjonesfilm]

@sethsells This short film was made in 1992 and Jim Jarmusch's feature was made in 2003. Try again.

[spudbud4]

@toddjonesfilm

Actually, the film Coffee and Cigarettes which was released in 2003 if made up of a series of short films that Jarmusch began shooting back in 1986...

One of them won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and the first short "Strange to Meet You" actually premiered on SNL

SO... I guess you gotta try again. ;)

[thesmartape1]

I'd just like to comment on the fantastic quality of the video

[neekface]

same director as 'there will be blood'

[maxcap2]

hey thats the cop from reservoir dogs... cool

[ahegele]

hot damn. 22 years old when he made this.

[AshKilamande]

@ahegele would you happen to have the link?

[93johnk]

god the sound quality.. i cant hear shit

[Colt2571]

@93johnk

lol

[Maarttttt]

I relate very much to your comment.

[bwninefilms]

@93johnk try harder

[bronsosaurus1]

how the hell did he get philip baker hall for his first short film? ? ?! !?!?!!? !?!?

[Colt2571]

@bronsosaurus1

he worked as a P.A. on a TV movie where Hall played a racist teacher...they became friends and he asked him to do the short

[tobiasoswald]

kirk baltz@ guy who got his ear cut off by Mr. Blonde in Reservoir Dogs

[J1j1p]

was this shot on 35mm?

[dschaafnz]

nah I'd say 16mm.

[J1j1p]

it looks really good.

[drummerjoe2610]

@dschaafnz it was shot on video, hence the shitty quality. 16mm would look great, unless absurdly deteriorated, in which case it would look very different from this.

[jimboree81]

@drummerjoe2610 :

No actually it was shot on 16 and then probably uploaded on video. You don't take a $23,000 budget and shoot on video. Get your facts straight!

[drummerjoe2610]

@jimboree81 must be a really shitty transfer then.

[jimboree81]

@drummerjoe2610 :

It was shot on 16mm then unloaded onto the web from a video format so you're actually right in that sense. Either way it's a structurally brilliant short.

[drummerjoe2610]

@jimboree81 i don't understand the 'in that sense', it was obviously transferred, and the quality is poor most likely because it was a low quality transfer. you cant just upload something on the web from 16mm, you have to get it to a digital format through a transfer

[jimboree81]

@drummerjoe2610 : It was shot on 16mm then transferred to videocassette tape (DVD wasn't around then). When it was uploaded to the internet from a video format it lost its quality. That's why it looks the way it does.

I've shot a couple shorts on 16mm Kodak so I'm aware of what the quality is supposed to be. This is not it.

[drummerjoe2610]

@jimboree81 i've shot a lot of 16mm footage on different cameras, and have used several different labs. One transfer I had was done with the worst telecine machine ever, and made the footage look atrocious. These could easily be the symptoms of a bad transfer.

[jimboree81]

@drummerjoe2610 :

You could be right about this being a poor transfer. The only reason I would believe its not though is because PT Anderson is such a perfectionist. He had a $23,000 dollar budget for this production and had veteran actors in it. I believe that if he went that far he wouldn't slip out on something like the post-production.

[dschaafnz]

This seems inspired by Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Ciggarettes.

[Asswarden]

Can't be. It came out eleven years before Coffee and Cigarettes.

[dschaafnz]

On imdb It says he made a short film with Roberto Benigni in the 1980's called Coffee and Ciggarettes. It's also youtube.

[devinorourke]

Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes came out ten years after this.

[dschaafnz]

Jarmusch made a total of 3 short films entitled Coffee and Cigarettes before put them all into a feature film with a few new ones. Coffee and Ciggs 1 in 1986, C&C 2 in 1989 and C&C 3 in 1993 (check imdb). But still, even though it's a familiar concept, P.T Anderson is still the man.

[mataccnt]

let out ten years earlier. Clearly not very polished on the it directors of today

[neptunesbounty]

sweet, finally on youtube!

[Schizopolis1138]

Thank you very much for sharing this brilliant short from the brilliant p.t. anderson! Very appreciative!

[BarenuckleBless]

Where you find this?

[freetownguy]

You can watch the short film on Vimeo too.

:D

[19jiffy]

Paul thomas anderson is a GOD of filmmaking and even this short film demonstrates his genius and his unmatched consistency.