New York City 1969 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 26 Dec
Hamlet (Tony Richardson)Juliette de Sade (Warren Kiefr)
Man and Wife (Matt Cimber)
The Reivers (Mark Rydell)
Three (James Salter)
The Wicked Die Slow (William K. Hennigar)
Week of 19 Dec
The Big Cube (Tito Davison)The Damned (Luchino Visconti)
A Dream of Kings (Daniel Mann)
The Funniest Man in the World (Vernon P. Becker)
Gaily, Gaily (Norman Jewison)
Generation (George Schaefer)
The Happy Ending (Richard Brooks)
Hello, Dolly! (Gene Kelly)
Marooned (John Sturges)
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (Peter Hunt)
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (Abraham Polonsky)
Turn On to Love (John G. Avildsen)
Topaz (Alfred Hitchcock)
Week of 12 Dec
Cactus Flower (Gene Saks)Friends and Lovers (Harvey Cort)
John and Mary (Peter Yates)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Sydney Pollack)
The Trouble With Girls (Peter Tewksbury)
Z (Costa-Gavras)
Week of 5 Dec
Alfred the Great (Clive Donner)A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Bill Melendez)
Naked Angels (Bruce D. Clark)
A Nice Girl Like Me (Desmond Davis)
Pit Stop (Jack Hill
The Sex of Angels (Ugo Liberatore)
Week of 28 Nov
Intimate Lighting (Ivan Passer) [1965]Kaya, I'll Kill You (Vatroslav Mimica)
Troika (Frederick Hobbs & Gordon Mueller)
Week of 21 Nov
The Arrangement (Elia Kazan)The Comic (Carl Reiner)
The Desperados (Henry Levin)
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee (William Klein)
The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (Burt Kennedy)
The Minx (Raymond Jacobs)
Week of 14 Nov
The Brain (Gérard Oury)Don't Drink the Water (Howard Morris)
Flareup (James Neilson)
In the Year of the Pig (Emile de Antonio)
Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (Robert Parrish)
The Last of the Ski Bums (Dick Barrymore)
Mission Batangas (Keith Larsen)
Popcorn (Peter Clifton)
Terry Whitmore, for Example (Bill Brodie)
Week of 7 Nov
Destroy All Monsters (Ishirô Honda)Downhill Racer (Michael Ritchie)
Futz (Tom O'Horgan)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Herbert Ross)
La Femme infidèle (Claude Chabrol)
Sign of the Virgin (Zbynek Brynych)
Trilogy (Frank Perry)
Week of 31 Oct
L'Immortelle (Alain Robbe-Grillet) [1963]Rascal (Norman Tokar)
The Secret of Santa Vittoria (Stanley Kramer)
The Wonderful Land of Oz (Barry Mahon)
Week of 24 Oct
American Revolution 2 (Howard Alk & Mike Gray)Blood Demon (Harald Reinl)
Coming Apart (Milton Moses Ginsberg)
Hail, Hero! (David Miller)
It Takes All Kinds (Eddie Davis)
Mad Doctor of Blood Island (Gerry De Leon & Eddie Romero)
Marlowe (Paul Bogart)
Ski Fever (Curt Siodmak)
The Sterile Cuckoo (Alan J. Pakula)
Week of 17 Oct
Adalen '31 (Bo Widerberg)Battle of Britain (Guy Hamilton)
Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag)
Lions Love (Agnès Varda)
Lock Up Your Daughters! (Peter Coe)
Paint Your Wagon (Joshua Logan)
Young Billy Young (Burt Kennedy)
Week of 10 Oct
Ace High (Giuseppe Colizzi)All the Loving Couples (Mack Bing)
Black on White (Tinto Brass)
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (Paul Mazursky)
The Brave Little Tailor (Helmut Spieß) [1956]
Fuego (Armando Bo)
The Italian Job (Peter Collinson)
The Madwoman of Chaillot (Bryan Forbes)
The Monitors (Jack Shea)
Week of 3 Oct
Andrea (Hans Schott Schoebinger)Change of Mind (Robert Stevens)
The File of the Golden Goose (Sam Wanamaker)
Oh! What a Lovely War (Richard Attenborough)
Some Kind of a Nut (Garson Kanin)
A Walk With Love and Death (John Huston)
Week of 26 Sep
The Adding Machine (Jerome Epstein)The Babysitter (Don Henderson)
The Bed Sitting Room (Richard Lester)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill)
The Christmas Tree (Terence Young)
De Sade (Cy Endfield)
Fanny Hill (Mac Ahlberg)
The Fountain of Love (Ernst Hofbauer) [1966]
Week of 19 Sep
All Neat in Black Stockings (Christopher Morahan)Number One (Tom Gries)
The Peach Thief (Vulo Radev) [1964]
Two Gentlemen Sharing (Ted Kotcheff)
Week of 12 Sep
The Great Bank Robbery (Hy Averback)Hell's Angels '69 (Lee Madden)
Yes! (Joseph W. Sarno)
Week of 5 Sep
Charro! (Charles Marquis Warren)Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers! (Russ Meyer)
A Fine Pair (Francesco Maselli)
Michael and Helga (Erich F. Bender)
Nanami—Inferno of First Love (Susumu Hani)
Spirits of the Dead (Federico Fellini/Louis Malle/Roger Vadim)
The Valley of Gwangi (Jim O'Connolly)
Week of 29 Aug
The Bridge at Remagen (John Guillermin)The Gypsy Moths (John Frankenheimer)
Medium Cool (Haskell Wexler)
The Rain People (Francis Ford Coppola)
Week of 22 Aug
Alice's Restaurant (Arthur Penn)Paranoia (Umberto Lenzi)
A Place for Lovers (Vittorio De Sica)
Staircase (Stanley Donen)
Sweden: Heaven and Hell (Luigi Scattini)
Take the Money and Run (Woody Allen)
Thank You All Very Much (Waris Hussein)
Week of 15 Aug
Detour (Grisha Ostrovski & Todor Stoyanov)A Session With the Committee (Del Jack)
Spoils of the Night (Shinji Murayama)
Week of 8 Aug
Blood of Dracula's Castle (Al Adamson)Chastity (Alessio de Paola)
Justine (George Cukor)
The Learning Tree (Gordon Parks)
More (Barbet Schroeder)
Nightmare in Wax (Bud Townsend)
Stiletto (Bernard Kowalski)
Week of 1 Aug
The Best House in London (Philip Saville)The Gay Deceivers (Bruce Kessler)
Guns of the Magnificent Seven (Paul Wendkos)
This Savage Land (Vincent McEveety)
Week of 25 Jul
Blue Movie (Andy Warhol)Castle Keep (Sydney Pollack)
La Chamade (Alain Cavalier)
The Oblong Box (Gordon Hessler)
Run Wild, Run Free (Richard C. Sarafian)
Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice? (Lee H. Katzin)
Week of 18 Jul
Camille 2000 (Radley Metzger)Daddy's Gone A-Hunting (Mark Robson)
Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper)
Week of 11 Jul
Death Rides A Horse (Giulio Petroni)How to Commit Marriage (Norman Panama)
Marry Me! Marry Me! (Claude Berri)
Me, Natalie (Fred Coe)
Putney Swope (Robert Downey)
Secret World (Robert Freeman)
Wild Wheels (Ken Osborne)
Week of 4 Jul
Slaves (Herbert J. Biberman)Three Into Two Won't Go (Peter Hall)
True Grit (Henry Hathaway)
Week of 27 Jun
The Boys of Paul Street (Zoltán Fábri)The Chairman (J. Lee Thompson)
The Devil by the Tail (Philippe de Broca)
Hello Down There (Jack Arnold)
Krakatoa, East of Java (Bernard Kowalski)
The Lost Man (Robert Alan Aurthur)
My Side of the Mountain (James B. Clark)
The Wild Bunch (Sam Peckinpah)
The Witchmaker (William O. Brown)
Week of 20 Jun
The Devil's 8 (Burt Topper)Eye of the Cat (David Lowell Rich)
Mackenna's Gold (J. Lee Thompson)
The Maltese Bippy (Norman Panama)
Ring of Bright Water (Jack Couffer)
Week of 13 Jun
The First Time (James Neilson)The Fool Killer (Servando González) [1965]
Fräulein Doktor (Alberto Lattuada)
Heaven With a Gun (Lee H. Katzin)
Last Summer (Frank Perry)
Listen, Let's Make Love (Vittorio Caprioli)
Sam Whiskey (Arnold Laven)
The Tree (Robert Guenette)
You Only Love Once (Dirk Sanders)
Week of 6 Jun
Barren Lives (Nelson Pereira dos Santos) [1963]The Brute and the Beast (Lucio Fulci) [1966]
Sinful Davey (John Huston)
Strategy of Terror (Jack Smight)
That Cold Day in the Park (Robert Altman)
Week of 30 May
The April Fools (Stuart Rosenberg)Che! (Richard Fleischer)
Life, Love, Death (Claude Lelouch)
Midnight Cowboy (John Schlesinger)
Mission Stardust (Primo Zeglio)
Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone)
Popi (Arthur Hiller)
The Southern Star (Sidney Hayers)
Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies (Ken Annakin)
Week of 23 May
The Green Slime (Kinji Fukasaku)Hard Contract (S. Lee Pogostin)
A Matter of Days (Yves Ciampi)
99 Women (Jesús Franco)
Subterfuge (Peter Graham Scott)
Winning (James Goldstone)
Week of 16 May
The Female: Seventy Times Seven (Leopoldo Torre Nilsson) [1962]Les Gauloises bleues (Michel Cournot)
The Libertine (Pasquale Festa-Campanile)
People Meet and Sweet Music Fills the Heart (Henning Carlsen)
Vixen! (Russ Meyer)
Week of 9 May
Death of a Gunfighter (Allen Smithee) [Robert Totten + Don Siegel]Hook, Line & Sinker (George Marshall)
Laughter in the Dark (Tony Richardson)
Lonesome Cowboys (Andy Warhol)
Midas Run (Alf Kjellin)
Where It's At (Garson Kanin)
Young Americans (Alexander Grasshoff)
Week of 2 May
A Bullet for the General (Damiano Damiani)Hannibal Brooks (Michael Winner)
The Mad Room (Bernard Girard)
More Dead Than Alive (Robert Sparr)
The Round-Up (Miklós Jancsó) [1966]
Week of 25 Apr
Adelaide (Jean-Daniel Simon)The Astro-Zombies (Ted V. Mikels)
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium (Mel Stuart)
Kenner (Steve Sekely)
King, Murray (Jonathan Gordon & David Hoffman)
The Loves of Isadora (Karel Reisz)
The Miracle of Love (F.J. Gottleib)
Seven Golden Men (Marco Vicario) [1965]
Succubus (Jess Franco)
The Sweet Body of Deborah (Romolo Guerrieri)
Teorema (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
The Undertaker and His Pals (T.L.P. Swicegood) [1966]
Week of 18 Apr
The Guru (James Ivory)Run, Angel, Run! (Jack Starrett)
Salesman (The Maysles Brothers & Charlotte Zwerin)
The Smugglers (Luc Moullet)
Week of 11 Apr
Doctor Glas (Mai Zetterling)Support Your Local Sheriff! (Burt Kennedy)
Walkover (Jerzy Skolimowski) [1965]
The Wanderer (Jean-Gabriel Albicocco)
The Wedding Party (Wilford Leach & Cynthia Munroe & Brian de Palma)
Week of 4 Apr
African Safari: Rivers of Fire and Ice (Ron E. Shanin)Angel in My Pocket (Alan Rafkin)
Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach (Jean-Marie Straub)
Goodbye, Columbus (Larry Peerce)
High (Larry Kent)
Sweet Charity (Bob Fosse)
Week of 28 Mar
Before Winter Comes (J. Lee Thompson)The Cats (Henning Carlsen) [1965]
Chubasco (Allen H. Miner)
Dracula Has Risen From the Grave (Freddie Francis)
The Illustrated Man (Jack Smight)
La Prisonnière (Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Morire gratis (Sandro Franchina)
Not Mine to Love (Uri Zohar)
100 Rifles (Tom Gries)
The Red and the White (Miklós Jancsó)
Week of 21 Mar
The Assassination Bureau (Basil Dearden)Baby Love (Alastair Reid)
Can Heironymus Merkin ever forget Mercy Humppe and find true happiness? (Anthony Newley)
Pendulum (George Schaefer)
Week of 14 Mar
I Am Curious (Yellow) (Vilgot Sjöman)The Love Bug (Robert Stevenson)
Otley (Dick Clement)
Tropici (Gianna Amico)
2: I, a Woman Part II (Mac Ahlberg)
2000 Years Later (Bert Tenzer)
Where Eagles Dare (Brian G. Hutton)
The Witches (various)
Week of 7 Mar
Assignment to Kill (Sheldon Reynolds)The Big Bounce (Alex March)
The Castle (Rudolf Noelte)
Don Quixote From La Mancha (Miguel M. Delgado)
if.... (Lindsay Anderson)
Katerina Izmailova (Mikhail Shapiro)
Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me! (Andy Milligan)
Le Socrate (Robert Lapoujade)
Skidoo (Otto Preminger)
Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut)
The Trygon Factor (Cyril Frankel) [1966]
Week of 28 Feb
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Ronald Neame)Queen of Blood (Curtis Harrington) [1966]
Six in Paris (various)
Three in the Attic (Richard Wilson)
Twisted Nerve (Roy Boulting)
The Vixens (Harvey Cort)
Week of 21 Feb
The Last Adventure (Robert Enrico)The Night of the Following Day (Hubert Cornfield)
Play Dirty (Andre De Toth)
Very Happy Alexander (Yves Robert)
Week of 14 Feb
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (Melvin Frank)Changes (Hall Bartlett)
Don't Look Now (Gérard Oury) [1966]
Hell in the Pacific (John Boorman)
The Immortal Story (Orson Welles)
Les Créatures (Agnès Varda) [1966]
Mayerling (Terence Young)
Model Shop (Jacques Demy)
Shock Troops (Costa-Gavras)
A Twist of Sand (Don Chaffey)
Week of 7 Feb
Hellfighters (Andrew V. McLaglen)Identification Marks: None (Jerzy Skolimowski) [1965]
Martyrs of Love (Jan Nemec)
Me and My Brother (Robert Frank)
The Song and the Silence (Nathan Cohen)
They Came to Rob Las Vegas (Antonio Isasi)
The Wrecking Crew (Phil Karlson)
Week of 31 Jan
Great Catherine (Gordon Flemyng)Monterey Pop (D A Pennebaker)
Pinocchio (Ron Merk)
The Three Sisters (Samson Samsonov) [1964]
Week of 24 Jan
A Challenge for Robin Hood (C.M. Pennington-Richards)Decline and Fall of a Bird Watcher (John Krish)
Ghosts—Italian Style (Renato Castellani)
The Stalking Moon (Robert Mulligan)
Week of 17 Jan
Black Girl (Sembène Ousmane) [1966]The Brotherhood (Martin Ritt)
Riot (Buzz Kulik)
Week of 10 Jan
Grazie zia (Salvatore Samperi)Pierrot le Fou (Jean-Luc Godard) [1965]
Week of 3 Jan
The Tinder Box (Siegfried Hartmann) [1959]