The approach resulted in talky, freewheeling films like his 1983 romantic comedy, “Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?” starring Karen Black. That film “sometimes seems in danger of chattering away its welcome,” Janet Maslin noted in her review in The New York Times but added that “there is a loose, funny abandon to much of the conversation here, and certainly plenty of spontaneity.” Mr. Jaglom made his films on a shoestring budget, often using locations that cost nothing; he shot his 1995 family drama, “Last Summer in the Hamptons,” at his parents’ gray-shingled house in East Hampton, N.Y. He also...