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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.)

The French director I haven't seen anything by, and seriously need to rectify that situation about, is Melville.

Thanks, megan. I've seen Diabolique and Wages of Fear (which always reminds me of Ed on Northern Exposure nodding knowingly and just saying, "Yves Montand." Like, that's all you needed to say about that.) But yeah, I was curious about The Raven.