Bruce Goldstein (born July 5, 1952[1]) is a New York City based film programmer, distributor, documentarian, writer, producer, and publicist.

[1] He attended Hicksville High School and went on to Boston University, dropping out to run a movie theater in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where he created his first repertory film calendars.

While at the theater, he and Thalia owner Richard Schwarz produced a compilation film called Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage, which had national distribution through their own company, Manhattan Movietime.

While at the Thalia, Goldstein developed his flair for ballyhoo, putting on well-publicized events like a “Fay Way Scream-Alike” contest on the 50th anniversary of the premiere of King Kong at Radio City Music Hall.

He'd later create similar events for Film Forum, including a Betty Boop Look-A-like Contest, and recreations of William Castle gimmicks "Percept-o" and "Emerge-O" for The Tingler and House on Haunted Hill, respectively.

In 1997, Goldstein founded Rialto Pictures, described as "the gold standard of reissue distributors" by Los Angeles Times/NPR film critic Kenneth Turan,[6] as a means to exhibit classics that were not in distribution in the U.S.