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.
I'm sorry. You were going to ask me to choose, right? Did you want to finish?
Zoe ,'War Stories'
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Dana - Sep 15, 2006 8:38:11 am PDT #4235 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
§ 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.)
Frankenbuddha - Sep 15, 2006 8:44:02 am PDT #4242 of 10001
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
The French director I haven't seen anything by, and seriously need to rectify that situation about, is Melville.
DavidS - Sep 15, 2006 8:45:01 am PDT #4243 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
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.
amych - Sep 15, 2006 8:45:21 am PDT #4244 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I'm still not especially drawn to see it, but I somehow suspect I'll be first in line when the nightclub bit shows up on youtube.
(edited because italics is NOT whitefont.)