Smoke (Blu-ray)

Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) runs a cigar shop on a Brooklyn corner and has photographed the same street corner at the same time every morning for fourteen years — building an archive of identical images that turn out, on close inspection, to be completely different. Around his shop orbits a loose constellation of characters: a grieving writer (William Hurt), a young man (Harold Perrineau) searching for his father, a woman from Auggie's past (Stockard Channing).Directed by Wayne Wang from Paul Auster's original screenplay, Smoke is a warm, digressive, deeply pleasurable film about storytelling, community, and the small moments of connection that sustain a life. Its final scene — Auggie's Christmas story, told in black and white over Tom Waits — is one of the great endings in contemporary American cinema.