Me and My Gal

Bruce Goldstein is founder and co-president of Rialto Pictures. Goldstein founded Rialto in 1997 as a means to exhibit classics that were then not in distribution in the U.S. Actively involved in the marketing of the company’s releases, he has written and produced many of Rialto’s distinctive trailers and has served as art director on many of the company’s posters. He and partner Adrienne Halpern have also worked closely on editing the subtitles of every one of Rialto’s foreign language films and has written subtitles for five of the company’s releases. In 1986, Goldstein created Film Forum’s now-iconic repertory format. Since then, he has produced four repertory calendars a year (“as much fun as the flicks themselves,” raved Time Out New York) and has personally created over 400 film festivals, which have been emulated around the world. Among his many achievements are the popularization of “Pre-Code” movies (films made before Hollywood censorship) as a distinct genre; his early series “Movies in Scope,” which helped create a public demand for the letterboxing of videos; and the reputation of Film Forum as flagship theater for new prints and restorations.critically-acclaimed 30-minute documentary on the making of Harold Lloyd’s 1928 silent comedy Speedy, commissioned by the Criterion Collection. His presentations for SHC’s Festival of Preservation – ‘The Fabulous Nicholas Brothers’, The Tingler and ‘Vaudeville 101: A Night at the Palace’- are already legendary.