Smoking in Movies & Le Samouraï (1967) featuring Bret Berg and Joe Ziemba

Dear Movies, I Love You

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5 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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On this week’s very cool episode of Dear Movies, I Love You, our hosts Millie and Casey discuss smoking in movies and the 1967 classic LE SAMOURAÏ. The hosts also detail their personal relationship with cigarettes. Plus, for their “My Area of Expertise” segment, they are joined by Bret Berg and Joe Ziemba of the American Genre Film Archive to talk all about “Found Footage.”

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0:00.0	This is exactly right.
0:06.2	Puff, puff, puff.
0:07.4	Hey, Casey, how's it going?
0:10.7	Hey, man, get that cigarette away from me.
0:14.8	Hi, Millie.
0:15.8	It's going well.
0:17.2	Yeah, I just want to start this episode at the top saying, like, we're not, uh, promoting cigarette smoking because it's very bad for you.
0:23.8	And it will kill you, actually.
0:26.2	Uh, no matter how cool it looks.
0:28.6	No matter how cool and how delicious they taste.
0:32.9	And, uh, you know, besides all that, we, we, we say, no, I say, get those cigarettes out of here.
0:40.8	So, but how are you, Millie, besides, besides you smoking a pack right in front, right on the Zoom.
0:49.9	What time is it?
0:51.0	I'm ready through my first pack.
0:53.3	No, I'm kidding.
0:54.4	I'm great. I'm excited about my first pack. No, I'm kidding. I'm great.
0:55.6	I'm excited about this episode.
0:57.1	I think clearly we're doing an entire episode on smoking in the movies.
1:05.8	And specifically a movie that was made in 1967 by maybe my favorite director of all time,
1:13.5	Jean-Pier-Milville. It's called Le Semi.
1:18.0	Amazing.
1:19.1	Millie, you know, I was looking this up. You know, we're on a Zoom call right now,
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