Henry Jaglom

Henry Jaglom ( born January 26, 1938 in London ) is an English film director, screenwriter. and actor. He is considered one of the most prolific independent filmmakers in Hollywood.

Life

The son of a fugitive as a result of the October Revolution in England Russian Jews came in 1942 with his parents to New York City. There he completed his acting training at The Actors Studio by Lee Strasberg and appeared in smaller theaters and cabarets. End of the 60s he moved to Hollywood and came up with the film industry in contact. After a few minor roles helped him to contribute at the intersection of Easy Rider in 1971 he joined as a film maker. His first feature film A magician at my side with Tuesday Weld, Orson Welles and Jack Nicholson brought him while a friendship with Welles as well as a glowing review of Anaïs Nin, but commercially it was him, as with many of his early films: they were clearly in Europe more successful than in the U.S..

Nevertheless Jaglom allowed his private fortune independence from the major Hollywood studios and the laws of the American film market. So he was able to make his own films in his own distinctive style. Mostly they play in his personal life, family and friends to come, whether its relevant partners or his brother Michael Emil, who is himself an actor. At the top of the cinematic theming Jagloms drives private life written in 1985, the feature film Forever and ever, which focuses on the divorce from his first wife Patrice Townsend stands.

Jagloms films are very dialogue -heavy and focused on the actor. Often these speak directly to a conducted by Jaglom video camera. Thus, the scenes are improvised. However, Jaglom defends against the label and emphasizes his films would arise well after an extensive script. The difference to other directors is that he considered his script only as a starting point for the film and its actors encourage you to go beyond that and investing himself into the scenes. His style is often compared to Woody Allen and earned him the nickname " Woody Allen of the West Coast", but Jaglom differentiated that Allen mostly making fun about his characters, while Jaglom himself put his characters just as authentic as possible to the audience to show.

In his last films Jaglom runs like a performer back stronger from his films back. In Eating, Baby Fever and Going shopping he has placed in his so-called Women's Trilogy Women in the sole center of the films. Venice, Venice and Cannes Film Festival are tributes to the European film festivals in Venice and Cannes. Hollywood Dreams is about the dreams of a young film actress.

Jaglom says of himself that he was the luckiest man in Hollywood, because he did manage to create in this city 15 films, came the image for image only by himself, without him ever had in a studio talking in his films.

Movies

Legend: B - Book D - Performer, R - Director

Awards

• Retrospectives at the Hof International Film Festival in 1989 and the Los Angeles Film Festival in 1993 and at the Avignon / New York Film Festival in 1996
• Award for Lifetime Achievement at the Method Fest Independent Film Festival 1999

Film documentaries

• Who Is Henry Jaglom? Documentary by Henry Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman, 1997, 52 minutes.