"In this film Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel) takes one photo every morning at 8:00 at the same street, why bother to spend a lifetime on this?"
"Smoke" was directed by Wayne Wang, who was born in 1949, in Hong Kong. Here's the search results for Wayne Wang's movies from Amazon. He's working on a new movie called "Good Cook Likes Music". IMDB describes it as follows,
"On a bender, a trailer-park slacker sends away for a mail order bride (Ziyi) - a woman who turns out to be a musical prodigy who changes his life."
"Smoke" was written by Paul Auster, who was born in 1947, in Newark New Jersey. He's written many books including Auggie Wren's Christmas Story which you can see in "Smoke".
Last but not least, "Smoke" has the great Tom Wait's song.... Innocent When You Dream (Barroom)
