Films by Henry Jaglom
A relentlessly independent but deeply collaborative filmmaker, his sensibility forged first by study at the Actors’ Studio and then by enmeshment in New Hollywood, Henry Jaglom—who passed in September of 2025—mined the hopes and hang-ups of his bohemian-bourgeoisie milieu in raw, improvisation-led dramedies, crafted in tandem with a rotating selection of his illustrious friends: among them Karen Black, Jack Nicholson, and Orson Welles, who makes his final screen appearance in Jaglom’s "Someone to Love" (1987). That’s one of the several poignant and thorny hang-out movies featured in this collection, alongside
"Tracks", his sophomore feature, which aptly casts Dennis Hopper as a Vietnam vet whose return to the U.S. trips a psychological unraveling.
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Tracks
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 92 mins | 1976
Dennis Hopper, in the depths of his decade-long exile from Hollywood, channels his livewire, damaged intensity into the role of Jack Falen, a soldier returned from Vietnam and on a mission to restore the body of his friend to his hometown by way of the Am... -
Someone to Love
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 111 mins | 1987
This intimate meta-fiction, in which Jaglom plays a director who gathers a group of his single friends on Valentine’s Day so as to probe them for their views on love and loneliness, marks the final screen appearance of Orson Welles, a close friend of Jag... -
New Year's Day
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 88 mins | 1990
Notable in part for a cameo by Miloš Forman and the in-the-buff appearance of a pre-fame David Duchovny, Jaglom’s shaggy, yearning-suffused chamber piece uses a real estate mix-up to throw together the freshly divorced Drew (played by the director himself... -
Last Summer in the Hamptons
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 108 mins | 1995
Percolating existential crises, too-candid conversation, and, naturally, theatrics are in ample store when a family of stage actors and directors and playwrights assemble to bid farewell to their old summer house in this Cherry Orchard-tinted dramedy. As... -
Eating
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 110 mins | 1990
When a multigenerational group of women gather for a 40th birthday, their disordered relationships to food and to their own bodies bubble to the surface—going beyond just the plate of cake that gets endlessly passed between them to become an explicit top... -
Festival in Cannes
Directed by Henry Jaglom | 100 mins | 2001
A barbed backstage farce of entertainment industry wheeling and dealing, Jaglom’s film is set at the 1999 festival. Actress Alice (Greta Scacchi) is angling to get funding for an indie film, sweet talking and backstabbing alongside a colorful cast of ing...
