Smoke & Blue in the Face. Two Films

Article number 10224067

Two films explore the lives of people connected through a Brooklyn cigar store managed by Auggie Wren. In Smoke, a novelist, a shopkeeper, a teenager and a troubled mother unexpectedly influence one another's lives, revealing connections between seemingly unrelated individuals. Blue in the Face develops the same setting into a collection of loosely connected episodes featuring conversations, encounters and reflections on neighbourhood life. The volume includes the screenplay of Smoke, an interview with Paul Auster and Wayne Wang, the story that inspired the film, and material documenting the improvisational creation of Blue in the Face.