Elliott Stein, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elliott Stein

American film critic

Date of Birth: 05-Dec-1928

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, United States

Date of Death: 07-Nov-2012

Profession: actor, journalist, film critic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius

Elliott Stein (December 5, 1928 – November 7, 2012) was an American journalist and historian.In the 1950s he managed a literary review in Paris: "Janus." He also wrote for the review "Bizarre" with Kenneth Anger.
He worked with Anger on Anger's book Hollywood Babylon. In the years 1960–1970 he was a film critic in Paris for the Financial Times and for Village Voice.Back in New York in the 1970s, Stein wrote for the Village Voice and publishers like "Criterion".
He wrote regularly for Film Comment and Sight and Sound.
He is referred to in the diaries and memoirs of Ned Rorem, Susan Sontag, John Ashbery and Richard Olney.
He wrote New York City Inferno (1978) and Secrets of Sex (1970) and made a video-interview with himself (2005).
He played in some movies: Les Coeurs Verts (1965) by Édouard Luntz; in New York: "Bizarre" (1970) (a.k.a.
"Secrets of Sex").