Henry Jaglom Dead: Indie Director of 'Always' was 87

Henry Jaglom , the indie filmmaker who directed films including “Always” (1985), “New Year’s Day” (1989), “Last Summer in the Hamptons” (1995) and “Déjà Vu” (1997), has died, according to the New York Times . He was 87.

Both Jaglom’s personality and his films tended to divide people. In the introduction to H. Alex Rubin and Jeremy Workman’s 1997 documentary on the director, “Who Is Henry Jaglom?,” PBS’ “POV” website declared: “Hailed by some as a cinematic genius, a feminist voice and the only true maverick of American cinema, dismissed by others as a voyeuristic, egomaniacal fraud and the ‘world’s worst director,’ Henry Jaglom (‘Eating,’ ‘Babyfever’) obsessively and hilariously confuses and abuses the line between life and art, challenging the boundaries of filmmaking with his unortho