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

This is the short film P.T.Anderson directed back in 1992 (shot on a borrowed camera), which used the money he saved from dropping out of nyu film school to help fund it.

starring:
kirk baltz
philip baker hall
scott caffey
kim gillingham
miguel ferrer

mk harris
jennifer kaplan
bonnie fidelman

produced by :
patrick hoelck
wendy weidman
kirk baltz

in association with hex films

crew:
director of photography: vincent baldino
camera assistant: frank godwin
additional camera: dave phillips
sound: al samuels & jim petty john
crew: mike clark, alex jackno, shane conrad, jackson james, patrick hoelck, robert moy & kevin shanks

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[BarenuckleBless]

Where you find this?

[freetownguy]

You can watch the short film on Vimeo too.

:D

[93johnk]

god the sound quality.. i cant hear shit

[ahegele]

hot damn. 22 years old when he made this.

[LennLucky]

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

[AshKilamande]

@ahegele would you happen to have the link?

[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.

[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 : 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 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 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 must be a really shitty transfer then.

[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!

[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. ;)