New York, May 5 – Now that's what we call a film premiere! At Jim Jarmusch’s Coffee and Cigarettes’ Tribeca Film Festival screening, a large contingent of media outlets, all of which had received multiple invitations, showed up to cover the event, but only a select few were admitted into the venue, Stuyvesant High School in Battery Park City. So TV crews, photographers and reporters hoping to meet Steve Buscemi, White Stripes Meg and Jack White, Glenn Close, Eva Mendes, Steve Van Zandt, Matt Dillon, Eddie Izzard and other boldfaces piled up outside the school, while lines of ticket holders backed up at the doors.

A wind-driven rainstorm blew up, making matters worse. One video crewmember passed out and fell off a ladder; she’d left the scene by the time the ambulance arrived. As festival staff ordered those trying to pick up their tickets to go to another door, a stream of people flowed back out of the venue, creating a human logjam. (This reporter was shoved into a woman, who fell to the ground.)

Jarmusch directed Coffee & Cigarettes over a span of eighteen years (don’t ask us). Renee Zellweger’s sometime boyfriend Jack White and his sister Meg both appear in the film. They met Jarmusch at the White Stripes’ October 2002 Union Square concert, and hit it off.