New York City 1968 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 27 Dec
Dr. Coppelius (Ted Kneeland)One Movie Like Another (Jean-Luc Godard)
The Sergeant (John Flynn)
Shame (Ingmar Bergman)
Week of 20 Dec
Candy (Christian Marquand)Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Ken Hughes)
The Devil's Bride (Terence Fisher)
Here's Your Life (Jan Troell)
The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (Norman Tokar)
Ice Station Zebra (John Sturges)
The Killing of Sister George (Robert Aldrich)
The Night They Raided Minsky's (William Friedkin)
Oliver! (Carol Reed)
Pamela, Pamela You Are... (William L. Rose)
Red Beard (Akira Kurosawa) [1965]
The Sea Gull (Sidney Lumet)
Uptight (Jules Dassin)
Week of 13 Dec
The Birthday Party (William Friedkin)The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (Joseph McGrath)
Born Wild (Maury Dexter)
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava)
Greetings (Brian De Palma)
The High Commissioner (Ralph Thomas)
The Magus (Guy Green)
The Ugly Ones (Eugenio Martín)
Week of 6 Dec
Corruption (Robert Hartford-Davis)The Fixer (John Frankenheimer)
The Impossible Years (Michael Gordon)
Night of the Living Dead (George A. Romero)
Payment in Blood (Enzo G. Castellari)
Week of 29 Nov
A Flea in Her Ear (Jacques Charon)The Girl on a Motorcycle (Jack Cardiff)
Illusion of Blood (Shirô Toyoda) [1965]
Joanna (Michael Sarne)
Lady on the Tracks (Ladislav Rychman)
Stefania (Giannis Dalianidis)
Week of 22 Nov
Faces (John Cassavetes)Lady in Cement (Gordon Douglas)
Inga (Joseph W. Sarno)
Stay Away, Joe (Peter Tewksbury)
The Touchables (Bob Freeman)
Week of 15 Nov
A Journey to Jerusalem (Michael Mindlin, Jr.)The Shoes of the Fisherman (Michael Anderson)
Yellow Submarine (George Dunning)
Week of 8 Nov
Birds in Peru (Romain Gary)Head (Bob Rafelson)
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down (Jacques Poitrenaud)
The Oldest Profession (various)
Shalako (Edward Dmytryk)
The Split (Gordon Flemyng)
Week of 1 Nov
The Clown and the Kids (Mende Brown)The Legendary Champions (Harry Chapin)
The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey)
Six Days to Eternity (Ya'ackov Hame'iri & Itzhak Herbst)
Week of 25 Oct
Angels From Hell (Bruce Kessler)Beyond the Law (Norman Mailer)
The Mini-Skirt Mob (Maury Dexter)
Only When I Larf (Basil Dearden)
Paper Lion (Alex March)
Pretty Poison (Noel Black)
Rebellion (Masaki Kobayashi)
Secret Ceremony (Joseph Losey)
Star! (Robert Wise)
Week of 18 Oct
The Boston Strangler (Richard Fleischer)Bullitt (Peter Yates)
Bye Bye Braverman (Sidney Lumet)
Cop-Out (Pierre Rouve)
Negatives (Peter Medak)
The Pink Jungle (Delbert Mann)
Week of 11 Oct
Barbarella (Roger Vadim)Finian's Rainbow (Francis Ford Coppola)
I Love You, Alice B. Toklas! (Hy Averback)
If He Hollers, Let Him Go! (Charles Martin)
Romeo and Juliet (Franco Zeffirelli)
Slow Run (Larry Kardish)
The Subject Was Roses (Ulu Grosbard)
With Six You Get Eggroll (Howard Morris)
Week of 4 Oct
Aladdin and His Magic Lamp (Boris Rytsarev)The Charge of the Light Brigade (Tony Richardson)
The China Story: One-Fourth of Humanity (Edgar Snow)
Coogan's Bluff (Don Siegel)
Dayton's Devils (Jack Shea)
Fever Heat (Russell S. Doughten, Jr.)
The Firemen's Ball (Milos Forman)
Helga (Erich F. Bender)
Showdown for Zatoichi (Kenji Misumi) [1965]
Week End (Jean-Luc Godard)
Week of 27 Sep
Capricious Summer (Jirí Menzel)Charly (Ralph Nelson)
Flesh (Paul Morrissey)
Les Biches (Claude Chabrol)
Oedipus the King (Philip Saville)
A Report on the Party and the Guests (Jan Nemec)
17th Parallel: Vietnam in War (Joris Ivens)
You Are What You Eat (Barry Feinstein)
Week of 20 Sep
The Bofors Gun (Jack Gold)Duffy (Robert Parrish)
Funny Girl (William Wyler)
Girl on a Chain Gang (Jerry Gross)
Heidi (Delbert Mann)
Hot Millions (Eric Till)
Le Viol (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze)
Salt & Pepper (Richard Donner)
Teen Age Mother (Jerry Gross)
Warrendale (Allan King)
Week of 13 Sep
Any Gun Can Play (Enzo G. Castellari)Battle Beneath the Earth (Montgomery Tully)
Deadfall (Bryan Forbes)
Hammerhead (David Miller)
He Who Rides a Tiger (Charles Crichton) [1965]
The Stranger Returns (Vance Lewis)
Voyage of Silence (Christian de Chalonge)
The Young Runaways (Arthur Dreifuss)
Week of 6 Sep
Don't Just Stand There (Ron Winston)The Hell With Heroes (Joseph Sargent)
Week of 30 Aug
Invitation to Lust (Ron Wertheim)The Killing Game (Alain Jessua)
Kojiro (Hiroshi Inagaki)
Obsession (Gunnar Höglund) [1964]
Paris in the Month of August (Pierre Granier-Deferre)
Rachel, Rachel (Paul Newman)
Week of 23 Aug
The Big Gundown (Sergio Sollima)How Sweet It Is! (Jerry Paris)
The Legend of Lylah Clare (Robert Aldrich)
Murder Czech Style (Jirí Weiss)
The Savage Seven (Richard Rush)
Tarzan and the Great River (Robert Day)
Thunderbirds Are Go (David Lane)
The Wild Eye (Paolo Cavara)
Week of 16 Aug
The Conqueror Worm (Michael Reeves)The Girl With Three Camels (Václav Krska)
Hugs and Kisses (Jonas Cornell)
Hunger (Henning Carlsen)
Never a Dull Moment (Jerry Paris)
Robby (Ralph C. Bluemke)
Targets (Peter Bodganovich)
The Violent Four (Carlo Lizzani)
The Young, the Evil and the Savage (Antonio Margheriti)
Week of 9 Aug
Hang 'Em High (Ted Post)Majin (Kimiyoshi Yasuda)
Revolution (Jack O'Connell)
Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (Hy Averback)
Zita (Robert Enrico)
Week of 2 Aug
Countdown (Robert Altman)5 Card Stud (Henry Hathaway)
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Robert Ellis Miller)
Kiss the Other Sheik (Eduardo De Filippo/Marco Ferreri/Luciano Salce) [1965]
The Loves of Ondine (Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol)
The Seventh Continent (Dušan Vukotić)
Week of 26 Jul
Anzio (Edward Dmytryk)Danger Route (Seth Holt)
Inspector Clouseau (Bud Yorkin)
Isabel (Paul Almond)
Lost Sex (Kaneto Shindo)
The Strange Affair (David Greene)
Whirlwind (Hiroshi Inagaki) [1964]
Young Törless (Volker Schlöndorff)
Week of 19 Jul
Assignment K (Val Guest)Bandolero! (Andrew V. McLaglen)
For Love of Ivy (Daniel Mann)
A Man Called Dagger (Richard Rush)
That Woman (Will Tremper)
Torture Garden (Freddie Francis)
Villa Rides! (Buzz Kulik)
Week of 12 Jul
Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (Jerry Paris)King Kong Escapes (Ishirō Honda)
A Lovely Way to Die (David Lowell Rich)
The Shakiest Gun in the West (Alan Rafkin)
The Story of a Three Day Pass (Melvin Van Peebles)
Week of 5 Jul
Attack on the Iron Coast (Paul Wendkos)Audition (Milos Forman) [1964]
Custer of the West (Robert Siodmak)
Dark of the Sun (Jack Cardiff)
The Death of Tarzan (Jaroslav Balík) [1963]
The Devil in Love (Ettore Scola)
Interlude (Kevin Billington)
Week of 28 Jun
The Bride Wore Black (François Truffaut)Have You Heard of the San Francisco Mime Troupe? (Don Lenzer & Fred Wardenburg)
The Man With the Balloons (Marco Ferreri)
The Secret Life of an American Wife (George Axelrod)
The Thomas Crown Affair (Norman Jewison)
Zatoichi* (Kimiyoshi Yasuda) [1963]
* Though apparently New York City's introduction to the character, and
hence titled simply Zatoichi for local release, this is actually
Shintaro Katsu's fifth appearance in the role, and IMDb calls the film
Zatoichi on the Road.
Week of 21 Jun
The Dirty 5 (Andy Milligan)The Green Berets (John Wayne & Ray Kellogg)
Inadmissible Evidence (Anthony Page)
The Lost Continent (Michael Carreras)
Nazarín (Luis Buñuel) [1959]
The Queen (Frank Simon)
The Viking Queen (Don Chaffey)
Week of 14 Jun
Come Back Baby (David Allen Greene)Happy End (Oldrich Lipský)
Petulia (Richard Lester)
Rosemary's Baby (Roman Polanski)
Sol Madrid (Brian G. Hutton)
Speedway (Norman Taurog)
Survival 1967 (Jules Dassin)
The Sweet Ride (Harvey Hart)
The Uninhibited (Juan Antonio Bardem) [1965]
Week of 7 Jun
Far From Vietnam (various)For Singles Only (Arthur Dreifuss)
Jigsaw (James Goldstone)
The Name of the Game Is Kill! (Gunnar Hellström)
Old Shatterhand (Harald Reinl) [1964]
Week of 31 May
The Detective (Gordon Douglas)Fist in His Pocket (Marco Bellocchio) [1965]
The Long Day's Dying (Peter Collinson)
The Mummy's Shroud (John Gilling)
The Vengeance of She (Cliff Owen)
Wild in the Streets (Barry Shear)
Week of 24 May
Boom! (Joseph Losey)The Devil's Brigade (Andrew V. McLaglen)
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die! (Franco Giraldi)
No More Excuses (Robert Downey)
Prudence and the Pill (Fielder Cook)
Weekend Italian Style (Dino Risi) [1965]
What's So Bad About Feeling Good? (George Seaton)
Week of 17 May
Hagbard and Signe (The Red Mantle) (Gabriel Axel)How to Seduce a Playboy (Michael Pfleghar)
Mingus (Tom Reichman)
The Swimmer (Frank Perry)
Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger)
Week of 10 May
Blue (Silvio Narizzano)A Face of War (Eugene S. Jones)
The Fifth Horseman Is Fear (Zbynek Brynych) [1965]
Moonlighting Wives (Joseph W. Sarno)
The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (Frank Tashlin)
Secret Scrolls (Hiroshi Inagaki) [1957]
Trans-Europ-Express (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Week of 3 May
The Double Man (Franklin J. Schaffner)I, a Lover? (Börje Nyberg)
Murder à la Mod (Brian De Palma)
The Odd Couple (Gene Saks)
War and Peace: Part Two (Sergey Bondarchuk)
Week of 26 Apr
The Champagne Murders (Claude Chabrol)Day of the Evil Gun (Jerry Thorpe)
Les Carabiniers (Jean-Luc Godard) [1963]
A Stranger in Town (Vance Lewis)
War and Peace: Part One (Sergey Bondarchuk)
Yours, Mine and Ours (Melville Shavelson)
Week of 19 Apr
Gentle Giant (James Neilson)The Illiac Passion (Gregory Markopoulos)
Le D´part (Jerzy Skolimowski)
Week of 12 Apr
Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel)Blackbeard's Ghost (Robert Stevenson)
15 From Rome (Dino Risi) [1963]
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman)
I'll Never Forget What's 'Isname (Michael Winner)
Line of Apogee (Lloyd Michael Williams)
Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows! (James Neilson)
Will Penny (Tom Gries)
The Young Girls of Rochefort (Jacques Demy)
Week of 5 Apr
Accattone (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [1961]And There Came a Man (Ermanno Olmi) [1965]
A Dandy in Aspic (Anthony Mann)
La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard)
Nobody's Perfect (Alan Rafkin)
The Party (Blake Edwards)
The Scalphunters (Sydney Pollack)
2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick)
Week of 29 Mar
Benjamin (Michel Deville)The Edge (Robert Kramer)
The Glory Stompers (Anthony M. Lanza)
Kidnapping and Auctioning of Wendell Wilkie by the Love Bandit (Jack Smith)
Madigan (Don Siegel)
Psych-Out (Richard Rush)
The Rabble (Hiroshi Inagaki) [1964]
Separation (Jack Bond)
Sofi (Robert Carlisle)
Week of 22 Mar
The Anniversary (Roy Ward Baker)Guns for San Sebastian (Henri Verneuil)
I Even Met Happy Gypsies (Aleksandar Petrovic)
No Way to Treat a Lady (Jack Smight)
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (Michael O'Herlihy)
The Producers (Mel Brooks)
Sergeant Ryker (Buzz Kulik)
Week of 15 Mar
The Ballad of Josie (Andrew V. McLaglen)The Broken Wings (Yusuf Maloof) [1964]
Counterpoint (Ralph Nelson)
Diamonds of the Night (Jan Němec) [1964]
House of a Thousand Dolls (Jeremy Summers)
Maryjane (Maury Dexter)
Up the Junction (Peter Collinson)
Week of 8 Mar
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (Clive Donner)P.J. (John Guillermin)
The Power (Byron Haskin)
The Queens (Mauro Bolognini/Mario Monicelli/Antonio Pietrangeli/Luciano Salce)
30 Is a Dangerous Age, Cynthia (Joseph McGrath)
Week of 1 Mar
The Secret War of Harry Frigg (Jack Smight)The Treasure of San Gennaro (Dino Risi)
We Still Kill the Old Way (Elio Petri)
Week of 23 Feb
Bye Bye Braverman (Sidney Lumet)Firecreek (Vincent McEveety)
Grand Slam (Giuliano Montaldo)
Half a Sixpence (George Sidney)
A Matter of Innocence (Guy Green)
The Two of Us (Claude Berri)
Windflowers (Adolfas Mekas)
Week of 16 Feb
Tell Me Lies (Peter Brook)
Week of 9 Feb
Charlie Bubbles (Albert Finney)Doctor Faustus (Richard Burton & Nevill Coghill)
The Fox (Mark Rydell)
Love Affair, or The Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator (Dusan Makavejev)
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Rosie! (David Lowell Rich)
Sweet November (Robert Ellis Miller)
The Wacky World of Mother Goose (Jules Bass)
Winter Kept Us Warm (David Secter) [1965]
The Young Warriors (John Peyser)
Week of 2 Feb
Maroc 7 (Gerry O'Hara)Poor Cow (Kenneth Loach)
Track of Thunder (Joseph Kane)
Week of 26 Jan
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Sergio Leone)Sebastian (David Greene)
Week of 19 Jan
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (Ken Annakin)How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (Fielder Cook)
Tonio Kröger (Rolf Thiele) [1964]
Week of 12 Jan
Berserk (Jim O'Connolly)China Is Near (Marco Bellocchio)
Venom (Knud Leif Thomsen)
Week of 5 Jan
The Wicked Dreams of Paula Schultz (George Marshall)Wild 90 (Norman Mailer)
The Wild Rebels (William Grefé)