Almost forgot…the other night we also watched Blue In The Face (imdb | rotten tomatoes), the companion piece to Smoke. It was a bit too jumpy and spazzy to really feel like a movie; it was more like a series of vignettes strung together, half seemingly random (explained away by Harvey Keitel’s Auggie as a bunch of bizarre things that all happened around the same time) and half as a love letter to Brooklyn. The spazziness was predictable since most of the film was improvised, but there some particularly funny bits: Michael J. Fox, Lily Tomlin, Madonna, Mel Gorham singing in front of the mirror, and Roseanne. It was also cool to see Jim Jarmusch basically laying the groundwork for Coffee And Cigarettes.
Amusing enough if you’ve seen Smoke, but not enough to stand on its own.
Skirl | Dan Dickinson 
I saw Blue in the Face before I saw Smoke. I liked it better than, and quite adequately without the setup of, Smoke.
I most especially liked Lou Reed’s fear of clean Scandanavian countries, and Jarmusch’s observation about the way villains hold their cigarettes. 🙂
Was it villains? I thought he said “Europeans”, but maybe I heard wrong. I was distracted by his hair.