Jane Asher in Deep End, Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970
Image of the day, 8/7/11
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Fabulous film — so glad it’s being revived.
Good movie. Saw it a few years ago in 35 mm at Cinefamily in Los Angeles. I wanna see it again. Anyone seen FOUR NIGHTS WITH ANNA? Now that one sounds really intriguing and seems somewhat hard to find. Anyone seen ESSENTIAL KILLING?
Smudged white go-go boots. Love.
I’ve seen “Four Nights With Anna.” it’s rather odd as it presents a middle-aged Skolimowski character behaving exactly like an adolescent one — sneaking into a woman’s house and watching her while she sleeps.
“Essential Killing” is another story entirely. Very stark, very bleak and one of his very best.
Love Jane Asher. She never got the respect she deserved as an actor.
Jane Asher, yes— but another prime joy is John Moulder-Brown bowing to the Chinese hot dog vendor.
Graig:
Four Nights With Anna is an exceptional film! It’s exquisitely crafted, heartbreaking, and extremely unsettling in that unique Skolimowski fashion. The film’s available on googlevideo in a great print. You’ve probably seen it, but “Moonlighting” is another fantastic Skolimowski film that, sadly, seems to have been forgotten by most cinema lovers.
The hot dog vendor being the future Cato Fong, Burt Kwouk.
And yes, the very disturbing and breathtakingly terse “Four Nights With Anna” would make an instructive double feature with “Deep End.” Add “The Shout” for a fabulous triple feature. Oh, that Jerzy; I’d say we needed quite a few of his pictures to get the excellent treatment BFI (who made the new Blu-ray/standard def set, which I’ll review in my next Blu-ray Consumer Guide) gave this wonderful film.
Great, great film.
Also, amazing soundtrack. Cat Stevens AND Can.
I’m gonna have “Mother Sky” in my head all day long.
Now we need a good edition of Skolimowski’s “Barrier”, another great coming of age film.
Someone PLEASE guarantee me that the BFI dual Blu/DVD edition has the movie in… DVD too.
I’m almost poor.
How do you think I got the screen cap, I.B.? My MacBook don’t play Blu-rays.
My old DVR crapped out while I was in the middle of watching this. That’s my sad story. THE SHOUT is great, too.
Ordering!
“The Deep End” is the best thing I’ve seen in weeks. The cardboard cutout and the diamond in the snow…Man alive.
Also, Diana Dors!
And how the body language and wardrobe of Moulder-Brown both anticipates Polanski in THE TENANT and Bowie in THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH.
This has been a holy grail film for me for ages. Even Eddie Brandt video in North Hollywood couldn’t track it down. Then I missed it at the American Cinematheque at the Egyptian Theater. Then it shows up on TCM a while back — but in the wrong AR. One of these days…
Love Diana Dors in Seth Holt’s DANGER ROUTE, which is on Netflix Instant.
I watched Deep End earlier today (projected on the big screen at the cinema my wife and I run together) and was pretty damn amazed. Sort of Polish/Czech New Wave meets Nouvelle Vague meets the mod British cinema of the time.
It sort of reminded me of a pre-emptive mix of Harold & Maude and The Tenant — but maybe that’s just me.
Wow, no LOOK AT HER! from Lex? He truly is dead.
Lex only seems to dig those fresh, flavor-o-the-month blowup dolls from the contemporary American cinema.