New York City 1966 Commercial Releases
(Reconstructed from New York Times archives; I didn't start keeping track week-to-week until 1998. List is probably not definitive—if it got neither an ad nor a review, I won't have caught it—but everything major should be here. Films seen by yours truly are in blue.)
Week of 30 Dec
Arrivederci, Baby! (Ken Hughes)Traitor's Gate (Freddie Francis)
Trunk to Cairo (Menahem Golan)
Young Aphrodites (Nikos Koundouros) [1963]
Week of 23 Dec
After the Fox (Vittorio De Sica)Do You Keep a Lion at Home? (Pavel Hobl)
Funeral in Berlin (Guy Hamilton)
Galia (Georges Lautner)
Gambit (Ronald Neame)
Grand Prix (John Frankenheimer)
Murderers' Row (Henry Levin)
Night Games (Mai Zetterling)
The Sand Pebbles (Robert Wise)
The Spy With a Cold Nose (Daniel Petrie)
The Wild Angels (Roger Corman)
Week of 16 Dec
Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni)The Brides of Fu Manchu (Don Sharp)
A Man for All Seasons (Fred Zinnemann)
Marco the Magnificent (Denys de La Patellière)
Mondo pazzo (Renato Polselli)
The Quiller Memorandum (Michael Anderson)
Shadow of Evil (André Hunebelle)
Spinout (Norman Taurog)
The Swinger (George Sidney)
A Very Handy Man (Alessandro Blasetti)
Week of 9 Dec
One Spy Too Many (Joseph Sargent)The Tramplers (Albert Band & Anthony Wileys)
Week of 2 Dec
The Daydreamer (Jules Bass)Follow Me, Boys! (Norman Tokar)
Week of 25 Nov
The Christmas That Almost Wasn't (Rossano Brazzi)The Counterfeit Constable (Robert Dhéry)
Fireball 500 (William Asher)
I Deal in Danger (Walter Grauman)
Texas Across the River (Michael Gordon)
Week of 18 Nov
Alvarez Kelly (Edward Dmytryk)The Defector (Raoul Levy)
Fahrenheit 451 (François Truffaut)
Jack Frost (Aleksandr Rou)
Let's Kill Uncle (William Castle)
90° in the Shade (Jirí Weiss)
The Plainsman (David Lowell Rich)
A Study in Terror (James Hill)
Tokyo Olympiad (Kon Ichikawa)
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (no director credited) [Senkichi Taniguchi, Woody Allen]
Week of 11 Nov
Cul-de-sac (Roman Polanski)Destination Inner Space (Francis D. Lyon)
The Fighting Prince of Donegal (Michael O'Herlihy)
Gulliver's Travels Beyond the Moon (Yoshio Kuroda)
Is Paris Burning? (René Clément)
Penelope (Arthur Hiller)
Week of 4 Nov
Not With My Wife, You Don't! (Norman Panama)Picture Mommy Dead (Bert I. Gordon)
A Pistol for Ringo (Duccio Tessari)
The Professionals (Richard Brooks)
Week of 28 Oct
The Liquidator (Jack Cardiff)Loves of a Blonde (Miloš Forman)
10:30 PM Summer (Jules Dassin)
Way...Way Out (Gordon Douglas)
Week of 21 Oct
Chamber of Horrors (Hy Averback)Cinderella (Fritz Genschow) [1955]
The Fortune Cookie (Billy Wilder)
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Richard Lester)
Georgy Girl (Silvio Narizzano)
Return of the Seven (Burt Kennedy)
Week of 14 Oct
Any Wednesday (Robert Ellis Miller)Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (Bernard Girard)
Hawaii (George Roy Hill)
Hotel Paradiso (Peter Glenville)
I, a Woman (Mac Ahlberg)
Mission for a Killer (André Hunebelle)
Mister Buddwing (Delbert Mann)
Zero in the Universe (George Moorse)
Week of 7 Oct
Come Drink With Me (King Chuan)The Crazy-Quilt (John Korty)
Dracula: Prince of Darkness (Terence Fisher)
The Great Spy Chase (Georges Lautner)
The Plague of the Zombies (John Gilling)
Romeo and Juliet (Paul Czinner)
Salto (Tadeusz Konwicki)
Seconds (John Frankenheimer)
Week of 30 Sep
The Bible: in the Beginning... (John Huston)Bolshoi Ballet 67 (Leonid Lavrovsky & Alexander Shelnkov)
The Psychopath (Freddie Francis)
Ride Beyond Vengeance (Bernard McEveety)
The Shameless Old Lady (René Allio)
The Wild Affair (John Krish)
Week of 23 Sep
The Dirty Game (Terence Young/Christian-Jaque/Carlo Lizzani)The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (Alan Rafkin)
Kaleidoscope (Jack Smight)
Loving Couples (Mai Zetterling)
Masculine Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard)
Week of 16 Sep
Ambush Bay (Ron Winston)The Appaloosa (Sidney J. Furie)
Chelsea Girls (Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol)
Frontier Hellcat (Alfred Vohrer)
Lost Command (Mark Robson)
Namu, the Killer Whale (Laslo Benedek)
Waco (R.G. Springsteen)
Walk in the Shadow (Basil Dearden) [1962]
Week of 9 Sep
And Now Miguel (James B. Clark)Beau Geste (Douglas Heyes)
Blues for Lovers (Paul Henreid)
Fantastic Voyage (Richard Fleischer)
Week of 2 Sep
An American Dream (Robert Gist)Time Lost and Time Remembered (Desmond Davis)
To the Shores of Hell (Will Zens)
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? (Blake Edwards)
Week of 26 Aug
Alfie (Lewis Gilbert)Batman (Leslie H. Martinson)
Walk, Don't Run (Charles Walters)
Week of 19 Aug
Every Day Is a Holiday (Mel Ferrer)An Eye for an Eye (Michael D. Moore)
The Pad (And How to Use It) (Brian G. Hutton)
Week of 12 Aug
The Idol (Daniel Petrie)It Happened Here (Kevin Brownlow & Andrew Mollo)
La visita (Antonio Pietrangeli) [1963]
Minnesota Clay (Sergio Corbucci)
Modesty Blaise (Joseph Losey)
A Place Called Glory (Sheldon Reynolds)
Week of 5 Aug
Love and Marriage (Mino Guerrini/Gianni Puccini)Mademoiselle (Tony Richardson)
The Main Chance (John Knight)
A Man Called Adam (Leo Penn)
This Property Is Condemned (Sydney Pollack)
Week of 29 Jul
Assault on a Queen (Jack Donohue)Kanchenjungha (Satyajit Ray) [1962]
Torn Curtain (Alfred Hitchcock)
Week of 22 Jul
Around the World Under the Sea (Andrew Marton)Frankie and Johnny (Frederick De Cordova)
Good Times, Wonderful Times (Lionel Rogosin)
The Secret 7 (Alberto De Martino) [1963]
The Uncle (Desmond Davis)
The Wrong Box (Bryan Forbes)
Week of 15 Jul
The Alphabet Murders (Frank Tashlin)Enough Rope (Claude Autant-Lara) [1963]
How to Steal a Million (William Wyler)
Khartoum (Basil Dearden)
Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. (Byron Paul)
A Man and a Woman (Claude Lelouch)
Run, Appaloosa, Run! (Larry Lansburgh)
Week of 8 Jul
Secret Agent Fireball (Luciano Martino)Three on a Couch (Jerry Lewis)
Week of 1 Jul
A Fine Madness (Irvin Kershner)Nevada Smith (Henry Hathaway)
Spy in Your Eye (Vittorio Sala)
Sweet Light in a Dark Room (Jirí Weiss) [1960]
Week of 24 Jun
The Blue Max (John Guillermin)Born Free (James Hill)
Engagement Italiano (Alfredo Giannett)
Hold On! (Arthur Lubin)
A Hot Summer Game (James Bruner)
Last of the Renegades (Harald Reinl)
The Last of the Secret Agents? (Norman Abbott)
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Mike Nichols)
Week of 17 Jun
Bride-Napping (Yen Chun) [1962]Duel at Diablo (Ralph Nelson)
The Endless Summer (Bruce Brown)
Johnny Tiger (Paul Wendkos)
The Magnificent Concubine (Li Han Hsiang) [1962]
Munster, Go Home! (Earl Bellamy)
The Ladykiller of Rome (Elio Petri) [1961]
A Big Hand for the Little Lady (Fielder Cook)
Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (George Marshall)
The Glass Bottom Boat (Frank Tashlin)
Le Joli Mai (Chris Marker) [1963]
The Long Absence (Henri Colpi) [1961]
Mandragola (Alberto Lattuada)
The Marriage of Balzaminov (Konstantin Voinov)
Week of 3 Jun
The Coin (Li Han-hsiang) [1963]The Dream of the Red Chamber (Yuan Qiu-feng) [1962]
Gertrud (Carl Th. Dreyer)
Week of 27 May
Blindfold (Philip Dunne)The Garnet Bracelet (Abram Room)
Le Bonheur (Agnès Varda)
Lotna (Andrzej Wajda) [1959]
The Partner (Gerard Glaister)
The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (Norman Jewison)
Week of 20 May
Lady L (Peter Ustinov)The Mystery of Thug Island (Luigi Capuano)
Up to His Ears (Philippe de Broca)
Weekend at Dunkirk (Henri Verneuil)
A Young World (Vittorio De Sica)
Week of 13 May
Clouds Over Israel (Ilan Eldad)Les Bonnes Femmes (Claude Chabrol) [1960]
A Man Could Get Killed (Ronald Neame & Cliff Owen)
Stop the World, I Want to Get Off (Philip Saville)
Week of 6 May
Arabesque (Stanley Donen)The Fiendish Ghouls (John Gilling) [1960]
Horrors of Spider Island (Fritz Böttger) [1960]
Meet Me in Moscow (Georgiy Daneliya)
The Money Trap (Burt Kennedy)
Sands of Beersheba (Alexander Ramati)
7 Women (John Ford)
Week of 29 Apr
À tout prendre (Claude Jutra) [1963]Gunpoint (Earl Bellamy)
Judex (Georges Franju) [1963]
The Little Nuns (Luciano Salce) [1963]
Madame X (David Lowell Rich)
The 2nd Best Secret Agent in the Whole Wide World (Lindsay Shonteff)
Week of 22 Apr
Cinerama's Russian Adventure (various)Cloportes (Pierre Granier-Deferre)
Week of 15 Apr
The Boy Cried Murder (George P. Breakston)The Girl-Getters (Michael Winner)
John F. Kennedy: Years of Lightning, Day of Drums (Bruce Herschensohn)
Mara of the Wilderness (Frank McDonald)
The Rare Breed (Andrew V. McLaglen)
Week of 8 Apr
Fantômas (André Hunebelle)Morgan! (Karel Reisz)
The Trouble With Angels (Ida Lupino)
The Ugly Dachshund (Norman Tokar)
Week of 1 Apr
Cast a Giant Shadow (Melville Shavelson)Flame and the Fire (Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau)
Harper (Jack Smight)
The Spy With My Face (John Newland)
To Trap a Spy (Don Medford)
You Must Be Joking! (Michael Winner)
Week of 25 Mar
La fuga (Paolo Spinola)Shakespeare Wallah (James Ivory)
24 Hours to Kill (Peter Bezencenet)
Week of 18 Mar
Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard)The Group (Sidney Lumet)
Hamlet (Grigory Kozintsev)
The Silencers (Phil Karlson)
The Singing Nun (Henry Koster)
Week of 11 Mar
Dear John (Lars Magnus Lindgren)The Heroes of Telemark (Anthony Mann)
The Sleeping Car Murder (Costa-Gavras)
The Tsar's Bride (Vladimir Gorikker)
Week of 4 Mar
Moment to Moment (Mervyn LeRoy)The Oscar (Russell Rouse)
Week of 25 Feb
Alice of Wonderland in New Adventures (Gene Deitch)Kid Rodelo (Richard Carlson)
The Last Chapter (Benjamin Rothman& Lawrence Rothman)
Lord Love a Duck (George Axelrod)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (George Tressler)
Promise Her Anything (Arthur Hiller)
Week of 18 Feb
A Ballad of Love (Mikhail Bogin)The Chase (Arthur Penn)
Father of a Soldier (Rezo Chkheidze)
The Gospel According to St. Matthew (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Impossible on Saturday (Alex Joffe)
Inside Daisy Clover (Robert Mulligan)
Made in Paris (Boris Sagal)
Male Companion (Philippe de Broca)
Week of 11 Feb
Ten Little Indians (George Pollock)
Week of 4 Feb
Eroica (Andrzej Munk) [1958]The Flight of the Phoenix (Robert Aldrich)
Italiano Brava Gente (Giuseppe De Santis)
Ohayō (Yasujirō Ozu) [1959]
Othello (Stuart Burge)
The Shop on Main Street (Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos_
Week of 28 Jan
King & Country (Joseph Losey)Our Man Flint (Daniel Mann)
Where the Spies Are (Val Guest)
Week of 21 Jan
Judith (Daniel Mann)Sandra (Luchino Visconti)
When the Boys Meet the Girls (Alvin Ganzer)
Week of 14 Jan
[no films released]
Week of 7 Jan
Agent From H.A.R.M. (Gerd Oswald)The Golden Goose (Siegfried Hartmann)
Only One New York (Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau)
Wild Wild Winter (Lennie Weinrib)