Waht kind of person actually goes to the movies and pays money to see a Henry Jaglom film?

OMG, if you have never met them, then they must not exist! You must tell the people! Alternatively, you could go to a theater showing a Henry Jaglom film and sort of prowl around near the entrance, surreptitiously-like, and watch if any money changes hands. Then... pounce!

I am sure you can get to the bottom of this. Oh, I am very sure indeed. Report back here when you do.

defensive, much? (the question was actually serious, in a sociological way)

I paid money to see the 1997 Henry Jaglom movie DEJA VU at a cinema on Shaftesbury Avenue in London, England. I went w/ some friends. We all enjoyed it. I have spent my money on far worse things aesthetically/morally.

Hope this helps w/ yr fascinating sociological survey.

I went to one once, but I thought I was going to see a film, also titled in french, called MENAGE A'TROIS? OUI by Henry Jagoff.

Wrong theatre.

ha, well ward's mostly polite response kinda points to my hunch that the euro market is where jaglom makes enough box office to keep the career going. sorta a minor league woody allen thing. i know many "cineastes" (lol) who absolutely despise the man and his work, and of course the multiplex crowd ain't supporting him, so i was curious about the demographics. i noticed he has a new one coming out, and that got me thinking about the man. thanks for being so precious, aimless.

defensive, much?

Er. In defense of what?

Until I saw this thread I did not even know that Henry Jaglom existed, let alone that he made films. Even now, for all I know his films are about windsurfing. Or albinos. Or giraffes. It merely seemed to me that supposing his patrons to be mythical, based simply on your never having met one, was rather solipsistic.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEARTFELT RESPONSE. YES, I ACTUALLY THOUGHT THEY WERE MYTHICAL, LIKE DRAGONS AND CENTAURS. ALSO, THANKS FOR RESPONDING TO THREADS THAT YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING ABOUT.

You are welcome. I would like to point out that, although I actually came to this thread, I paid no money to participate. That's just the kind of person I am.

watching Last Summer in the Hamptoms for the first time. Brooke Adams and Andre Gregory, a few months before Vanya on 42nd Street!. Martha Plimpton!

My friend went to see the new one (Judd Nelson is in it) and walked out early.

I wonder if gershy ever saw his Nicholson-Welles debut?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067699/

no, should I?

I like Gwen Welles

From the Orson Welles thread, this is just about the only post of substance on ilx that I can find about this guy's films:

Some of Jaglom's films are worth seeing imho - Tracks, Sitting Ducks, Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?, Deja Vu. His debut, A Safe Place, which tries to relocate the nouvelle vague to New York and features a cameo from Welles as a magician in Central Park, is one of the great 'I wish I could have seen the faces of the Columbia executives when they screened this one' movies.

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Haha, I saw this question and figured Morbs would be the kind of person, but all there is is

My friend went to see the new one (Judd Nelson is in it) and walked out early.

MST3K really missed out on not riffing on any of his films

I've seen Tracks. For some reason it was on the BBC, perhaps as part of a season of something. I have vague recollections of a man delivering an improvised speech about how chickens are close to the land. The film also has Dennis Hopper's todger. It's vaguely thematically similar to The Last Detail. He ends up in a grave with a machine gun.

Of course! It was on Alex Cox's Moviedrome:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApmWFVxE0BM

That's one thing the streaming age lacks. A combination of desperation on account of there only being four television channels, and the willingness to at least try to interest people in something weird. I probably watched it in the vain hope that it would have nudity. Which it does. Closely Observed Trains has nudity as well. A bottom! Daisies does not have nudity. Based on that one narrow criterion Daisies is a one-out-of-ten film. That was my cinematic education.

I was struck by this review, which has the tiniest text imaginable:
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=6399

It's so tiny. Tiny tiny text. It probably looked huge on an 800x600 screen, back in 1998. But in the grim future of 2025 it looks tiny! It's so small.

Yeah I saw Tracks when shown on Moviedrome, though I remember nothing about it. I get the impression that it's an outlier among HJ's works.

Can She Bake A Cherry Pie? is worth watching for the run-and-gun Manhattan streets and just the early-80s-ness of it all. Larry David shows up very briefly, and in a way this is like Curb but with more of a Rohmer tone.