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Given the retrospectives devoted to Sergei Eisenstein, Mikio Naruse and Sergio Leone currently underway in Chicago—not to mention the Robert Bresson retrospective beginning tomorrow at the Siskel Center and the new print of Wages of Fear that opens at the Music Box today—it’s easy to overlook the one-off screening of Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End (1970) at Doc Films this Sunday at 7 PM. But it’s a rare revival of a major film—and one that’s still unavailable on DVD in the US. Dave Kehr called it “one of the most authentic films about adolescence that I know,” noting how Skolimowski’s recent departure from Poland enhanced its “unusually strong sense of displacement, unfamiliarity and isolation” (it’s also blackly funny and the soundtrack, which features Cat Stevens and Can, is an added bonus).
