Less successful follow-up to Smoke, with rather uncomfortably improvised scenes featuring Roseanne Barr, Mel Gorham, Madonna, Michael J Fox etc. But the monologues of Lou Reed and Jim Jarmusch work better, and there's interesting, ironic side stuff about Brooklyn (man who clears plastic bags out of trees, girl whose 18th birthday it is, and Jackie Robinson, the first black professional baseball player for the Brooklyn Dodgers).
Lily Tomlin is - of course - unrecognisable. With Jared Harris, Giancarlo Esposito, Malik Yoba (rapping watch man).
Auster is an acclaimed novelist - 'The New York Trilogy' etc.
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