Jerzy Skolimowski

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Deep End - Blu-ray review by kultguy from

From out of the depths comes the lost Swinging Sixties cult Deep End 22 August 2011
...ragic results. To be honest, I had never heard of the film’s Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski before seeing this film. But reading the very informative booklet that accompan... Read customer review

Essential Killing on DVD (2010)
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stig Frode Henriksen
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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Captured by the US military in Afghanistan, Mohammed (Vincent Gallo) is transported to a secret detention centre in Europe. When the vehicle he is riding in crashes, he finds himself suddenly free and on the run in a snow-blanketed forest, a world away from the desert home he knew. Relentlessly ..read more »

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Essential Killing - Blu-ray (2010)
Starring: Vincent Gallo, Emmanuelle Seigner, Stig Frode Henriksen
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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A pair of American security operatives (Zach Cohen and Iftach Ofir) are on patrol in Afghanistan when they stumble upon a Taliban fighter (Vincent Gallo), who kills them despite his terror and nervousness. While trying to escape, the Afghan is captured by American forces; he's tortured during ..read more »

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White Nights on DVD (1985)
Starring: Helen Mirren, Gregory Hines, Mikhail Baryshnikov
Director: Taylor Hackford
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When Nikolai Kolya Rodchenko's plane makes an emergency landing in the Soviet Union, the world-famous dancer, played by Mikhail Baryshnikov, has reason to feel terrified: now that the defector is back on Russian soil, the authorities may refuse to let him leave again. But the KGB actually has a ..read more »

66% from 430 members

Success Is the Best Revenge (1984)
Starring: Michael York, Joanna Szczerbic, Michael Lyndon
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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Alex Rodak (Michael York) is a Polish director in exile in London with his family, which includes an older teenage son Adam (Michael Lyndon) who is struggling with an identity crisis, his wife (Joanna Szerzerbic), and another son. Rodak is in the throes of putting together a major show about Poland ..read more »

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The Shout (1978)
Starring: Alan Bates, Susannah York, John Hurt
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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A macabre tale about a man who claims he has the power to kill using a horrifying 'death shout'. A composer and his wife agree to letting the man stay, since the husband wishes to hear the 'shout' for himself.

62% from 350 members
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Deep End - Blu-ray (1971)
Starring: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
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Set at the fag-end of the '60s in a decidedly unglamorous and unswinging London (though actually filmed, very persuasively, in Hamburg), Skolimowski's pleasingly skewed variation on the coming-of-age sex comedy posits a bizarre, totally unsentimental education for its adolescent protagonist (..read more »

68% from 203 members

Deep End on DVD (1971)
Starring: Jane Asher, John Moulder-Brown, Karl Michael Vogler
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Certificate:
Set at the fag-end of the '60s in a decidedly unglamorous and unswinging London (though actually filmed, very persuasively, in Hamburg), Skolimowski's pleasingly skewed variation on the coming-of-age sex comedy posits a bizarre, totally unsentimental education for its adolescent protagonist (..read more »

67% from 483 members

Essential Killing - 2.5 stars
Essential Killing - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
White Nights - 3.5 stars
Success Is the Best Revenge - 3 stars
The Shout - 3.0 stars

Deep End - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Deep End - 3.5 stars
White Nights - 3.5 stars
The Shout - 3.0 stars
Essential Killing - 2.5 stars

Success Is the Best Revenge - 3 stars
Essential Killing - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Essential Killing - 2.5 stars
The Shout - 3.0 stars
White Nights - 3.5 stars

Vincent Gallo - 3 times - show films
John Hurt - 3 times - show films
Jane Asher - 3 times - show films
Anita Lochner - 2 times - show films
Anouk Aimee - 2 times - show films

Taylor Hackford - 1 times - show films
Mika Kaurismäki - 1 times - show films