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American film critic (1928–2012)

Elliott Stein (December 5, 1928 – November 7, 2012) was an American film critic, historian, programmer, and scriptwriter.[1]

In the 1950s, he managed Janus, a literary review in Paris, and from 1960–1970 he was a film critic there.[2] He also wrote for the review 'Bizarre with Kenneth Anger and later collaborated on Anger's book Hollywood Babylon.

Returning to New York in the 1970s, Stein wrote for The Criterion Collection, Film Comment, Financial Times The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Sight and Sound, Village Voice and others.

Stein is referred to in the diaries and memoirs of Ned Rorem, Susan Sontag, John Ashbery and Richard Olney. He co-wrote the films Secrets of Sex (1970) and New York City Inferno (1978), and acted in others including Les Coeurs Verts (1965) by Édouard Luntz and Secrets of Sex (1970), playing the dual role of the strange young man and the Mummy. Stein also recorded a video interview with himself in 2005.

  1. ^ "Elliott Stein (1928-2012)". Indiewire. 9 November 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
  2. ^ Anderson, Susan Heller; Maurice Carroll (28 September 1983). "NEW YORK DAY BY DAY; Alice Tully Tells How Persistence Paid Off". The New York Times. p. 4. Retrieved 19 February 2024.