Movies
A weekend of Nancy Meyers movies, plus a tribute to programmer Doug Jones, the Safdie Brothers’ ‘Heaven Knows What,’ sapphic desire in early Hollywood and ‘The Rockford Files’
March 22, 2024
This week in L.A.: Francis Ford Coppola returns to “One From the Heart: Reprise,” Taylor Hackford’s “Blood In Blood Out” and salutes to Edward Yang and Greta Garbo.
Jan. 19, 2024
Entertainment & Arts
Film director Rouben Mamoulian will receive the annual Jean Renoir Humanitarian Award presented by the Los Angeles Film Teachers Assn. at a dinner dance Friday at the Sportsmen’s Lodge in Studio City.
March 4, 1986
Rouben Mamoulian, the last surviving founder of the Directors Guild of America, has died at the age of 89 at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills.
Dec. 6, 1987
Obituaries
Charles Champlin’s interview with Rouben Mamoulian did much to keep that survivor of the glory days of the Hollywood studio empire alive in the minds of a generation weaned on maverick film makers (“Mamoulian: The Directors Guild Midwife,” Jan. 19).
Jan. 26, 1986
Champlin erred in calling one of Mamoulian’s landmark films “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Rouben Mamoulian directed stars of the stage and screen but he himself was a star of the first magnitude and held his own from the very beginning in this country.
Dec. 18, 1987
Music
It’s always painful to see one of your heroes put-down in print. A.
When he was younger, Rouben Mamoulian, who died on Friday at the age of 90, used to be annoyed that people thought he was older than he was.
Dec. 8, 1987