Elliott Stein

Elliott Stein (December 5, 1928 – November 7, 2012) was an American film critic, historian, programmer, and scriptwriter. In the 1950s, he managed Janus, a literary review in Paris, and from 1960–1970 he was a film critic there. 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 role of the Mummy. Stein also recorded a video interview with himself in 2005.