Speaking of Netflix, I think my last rental return got lost in the mail. Should I call them, or rely on e-mail to report it, and are they going to charge me for the cost of the disc?
Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.
'The Girl in Question'
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Kathy A - Sep 15, 2006 8:34:11 am PDT #4232 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
DavidS - Sep 15, 2006 8:34:12 am PDT #4233 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Thinks shocks me Hec. You who so love noir. I know there's no Antoine Doinel but still, Charles Aznavour!
I know! I don't know what my resistance has been. I saw a lot more Truffaut early on, but I've been much more intrigued by Godard in recent years. I think the only reason I saw Breathless so early on was because I'd seen pictures of Jean Seberg.
French Movies I Want To See
Shoot the Piano Player
Lola
Bay of Angels
Le Beau Serge (more Chabrol altogether)
Le Doulos
Some Chantal Akerman (any suggestions?)
Some Clouzot (suggestions?)
Hayden - Sep 15, 2006 8:36:50 am PDT #4234 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
What other Truffaut have you seen, Cor?
Just The 400 Blows, which was so great that I can't believe Truffaut was younger and more inexperienced a filmmaker when he made it.
It was interesting for me to see A Band Apart because Godard goes after the love triangle in a much more interesting way.
Definitely. In fact, I have yet to see a Godard film that didn't have some intrinsic worth. And yes, there were some great redeeming scenes in Jules et Jim, the run on the overpass especially, but the story was so shitty that I just hated the film. I mean, Truffaut basically seems to agree with Jules about Catherine (his mother/lover/daughter, all that bullshit), and Jules is explicitly a misogynist. Catherine's basically a sociopath exploiting loosening societal mores to justify her immediate pleasures, and the movie seems to suggest that she is perfect womanhood. Blah. After she commits suicide and murders his best friend, Jules is still caught up in his "they should have mingled their ashes" bullshit. I wonder what their daughter thought, or Jim's fiance, about Catherine's wonderfulness. But we'll never know because they weren't important enough to be at the funeral. Double blah.
Dana - Sep 15, 2006 8:38:11 am PDT #4235 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Should I call them, or rely on e-mail to report it, and are they going to charge me for the cost of the disc?
Use the website to report it missing. They shouldn't charge you for it, especially if it's the first problem you've ever had.
§ ita § - Sep 15, 2006 8:38:20 am PDT #4236 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Should I call them, or rely on e-mail to report it, and are they going to charge me for the cost of the disc?
Netflix has a "report lost disc" under their problem section. Lost in the mail is free, I think, unless it happens a lot.
SuziQ - Sep 15, 2006 8:39:53 am PDT #4237 of 10001
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Speaking of Netflix, I think my last rental return got lost in the mail. Should I call them, or rely on e-mail to report it, and are they going to charge me for the cost of the disc?
They didn't charge me when I had this happen. The disk ended up showing up a month later, back in my mailbox, so I just sent it back again.
Follow the instructions on the site from your queue...it is really simple.
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2006 8:42:12 am PDT #4238 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Some Clouzot (suggestions?)
Les Diaboliques and Le Corbeau are both really good, nasty films. I'm ashamed to say I haven't seen Wages of Fear yet, because I've heard it's pretty incredible.
megan walker - Sep 15, 2006 8:42:13 am PDT #4239 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Le Beau Serge (more Chabrol altogether)
Yeah, Chabrol is underrated I think. But you have to like dark, so I can see why he has less popular appeal than the others.
Some Clouzot (suggestions?)
Well, if you haven't seen them, I would start with Wages of Fear and Diabolique. I really like Le Corbeau/The Raven, which got Clouzot in a whole heap of trouble during the postwar collaboration purges because it deals with poisonous, anonymous letters in a small town.
Hayden - Sep 15, 2006 8:42:53 am PDT #4240 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Should I call them, or rely on e-mail to report it, and are they going to charge me for the cost of the disc?
Just email. Same thing's happened to me, and they fixed it, no problem.
DavidS - Sep 15, 2006 8:43:14 am PDT #4241 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Now see, even though The Black Dahlia is getting mediocre reviews the description of these two scenes makes me want to see it.
Whitefonted for those who don't want any details ahead of time, though these are not plot-spoilery: Together and separately Lee and Bucky follow Elizabeth's trail from a lesbian nightclub she occasionally frequented, mostly to score free drinks (this occasions the movie's wittiest scene, featuring an elaborate floor show with k.d. lang as a tuxedo'ed crooner flanked by a chorus line of haughty, topless lovelies) to a bungalow she shared with other girls who, as she was, were hoping to break into movies. (The luscious Rose McGowan appears briefly as an ambitious movie extra kitted up in a dazzling Egyptian slave-girl costume.)