New 4K Restoration of Henry Jaglom’s Tracks Screens at Roxy Cinema
Hope Runs High has announced a new 4K restoration of Henry Jaglom’s 1976 drama Tracks that will screen at Roxy Cinema in New York City on November 11 and November 22. The supplied announcement and accompanying email present the restoration as an opportunity to rediscover a buried New Hollywood independent gem that originally screened in Semaine de la Critique at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
The film is credited to director Henry Jaglom as a 1976 United States production running 92 minutes.
The synopsis describes a sergeant played by Dennis Hopper who returns from Vietnam to accompany a comrade’s body for burial and crosses America by train. Haunted by hallucinations of terror, the soldier becomes involved with various passengers both actual and imagined. Dean Stockwell and newcomer Taryn Power, identified as the daughter of Tyrone, join Hopper in a fractured loose-limbed journey through postwar trauma, sexual tension and a country that cannot quite face its own demons.
Principal cast members are Dennis Hopper, Taryn Power and Dean Stockwell. Henry Jaglom is listed as writer and director. Paul Glickman served as cinematographer and Zack Norman as producer.
Critical reception is represented by two attributed quotations. J. Hoberman called the film visceral and discomforting, describing Henry Jaglom’s ambitious independent production as both a terminal road film and the first post-Vietnam movie. Variety termed it an incisive, revelatory film.
The supplied materials note that Tracks was an official selection of Semaine de la Critique at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival.
The announcement supplies a biographical sketch of Henry Jaglom, born in 1938 and listed with a death year of 2025. Jaglom began his filmmaking career in the cutting room when he and Jack Nicholson helped edit Dennis Hopper’s 1969 hit Easy Rider. His first film as writer and director, the 1971 feature A Safe Place, was acclaimed by Anaïs Nin who said Henry Jaglom is the magician of American cinema. Jaglom went on to write and direct twenty more films and carve a path through the New American Cinema entirely his own. In 2013 Metropolitan Books, an imprint of Henry Holt and Company, released the book My Lunches With Orson: Conversations Between Henry Jaglom and Orson Welles.
Hope Runs High is identified as a New York-based film production and distribution company focused on reappraised classics and new releases for screens of every size. The company works with legendary filmmakers and the freshest talent to find new films and revive overlooked classics from female directors, people of color and LGBTQ+ filmmakers as well as artists from the traditional canon. Notable titles include restorations and re-releases of screen legend Lee Grant’s documentary and early narrative work, among them the Academy Award winner Down and Out in America, the final onscreen appearance of Orson Welles in Someone to Love, Tilda Swinton’s American screen debut in Female Perversions and the legendary indie darling Tarnation. Contemporary releases include the 2023 BAFTA nominee Rebellion and the three-time Independent Spirit nominee Chronicles of a Wandering Saint, as well as Killian & the Comeback Kids and We Might as Well Be Dead, both of which recently saw their original screenplays preserved by the Academy.
The supplied announcement lists two specific NYC screenings at Roxy Cinema located at 2 Avenue of the Americas, Cellar Level, New York, NY 10013. The first takes place Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 pm and is followed by a post-screening Q&A with Sabrina Jaglom and Justin LaLiberty. The second occurs Wednesday, November 22 at 5:30 pm. Both dates are promoted through the venue website and the Hope Runs High announcement materials.
