(Jerzy Skolimowski, 1970, United Kingdom/West Germany, 88 minutes)

In the late 60s and early 70s, it looked like Skolimowski might pick up where Jean-Luc Godard left off when he fell down the rabbit hole of Marxist filmmaking, and Deep End is perhaps the clearest evidence of why people thought this. The plot hinges on an obsession on the part of Mike (John Moulder-Brown), a 15-year-old new hire at a moldy pool, for Susan (Jane Asher, then known mostly for being Paul McCartney’s girlfriend/fiancée at the height of Beatlemania), a twentysomething pool employee who is hip and enigmatic in a way that Mike will never be. Featuring a memorable supporting performance by Diana Dors and use of the classic track “Mother Sky” by the Krautrock band Can (which was written for this film), in 1982 none other than David Lynch cited Deep End as “the only color movie [he’d] freaked out over.”