New York City 1970 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 31 Dec
Coming Attractions (Beverly Grant Conrad)Flap (Carol Reed)
Hollywood Blue (Michael Benveniste)
The Notorious Concubines (Kôji Wakamatsu)
A Very Curious Girl (Nelly Kaplan)
Week of 25 Dec
Alex in Wonderland (Paul Mazursky)The AristoCats (Wolfgang Reitherman)
Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman)
Fools (Tom Gries)
I Love My Wife (Mel Stuart)
Kama Sutra '71 (Raj Devi)
The Lady in the Car With Glasses and a Gun (Anatole Litvak)
The Man With Connections (Claude Berri)
There Was a Crooked Man... (Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Week of 18 Dec
Angel Unchained (Lee Madden)Cry of the Banshee (Gordon Hessler)
Detective Belli (Romolo Guerrieri)
Elvis: That's the Way It Is (Denis Sanders)
Little Big Man (Arthur Penn)
The Love Doctors (Bon Ross)
Love Story (Arthur Hiller)
The Notorious Cleopatra (Peter Perry, Jr.)
The Seducers (Ottavio Alessi)
Skezag (Joel L. Freedman & Philip F. Messina)
The Student Nurses (Stephanie Rothman)
Take a Girl Like You (Jonathan Miller)
There's a Girl in My Soup (Roy Boulting)
Week of 11 Dec
The Confession (Costa-Gavras)Dorian Gray (Massimo Dallamano)
Equinox (Jack Woods)
Hornets' Nest (Phil Karlson)
Horror House (Michael Armstrong)
Husbands (John Cassavetes)
Interplay (Albert T. Viola)
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (Elio Petri)
Wake Up and Die (Carlo Lizzani)
Week of 4 Dec
Adam at 6 A.M. (Robert Scheerer)Companeras and Companeros (David C. Stone & Barbara Stone & Adolfas Mekas)
Day of Anger (Tonino Valerii)
Gimme Shelter (David Maysles & Albert Maysles & Charlotte Zwerin)
Latitude Zero (Ishirô Honda)
No Blade of Grass (Cornel Wilde)
The Secret Lives of Romeo & Juliet (Peter Perry, Jr.)
The Traveling Executioner (Jack Smight)
Week of 27 Nov
Act of the Heart (Paul Almond)Homer (John Trent)
Norwood (Jack Haley, Jr.)
Week of 20 Nov
Bombay Talkie (James Ivory)Dirty Dingus Magee (Burt Kennedy)
I Walk the Line (John Frankenheimer)
Santa and the Three Bears (Tony Benedict)
Scrooge (Ronald Neame)
Week of 13 Nov
Count Yorga, Vampire (Bob Kelljan)The Crimson Cult (Vernon Sewell)
The Curious Female (Paul Rapp)
A History of the Blue Movie (Alex de Renzy)
Perfect Friday (Peter Hall)
Ryan's Daughter (David Lean)
Threesome (Brandon Chase)
Where's Poppa? (Carl Reiner)
Witchcraft '70 (Luigi Scattini)
Week of 6 Nov
a.k.a. Cassius Clay (Jim Jacobs)A Bullet for Pretty Boy (Larry Buchanan)
The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (Robert Butler)
Groupies (Ron Dorfman & Peter Nevard)
Hell Boats (Paul Wendkos)
The Owl and the Pussycat (Herbert Ross)
Sexual Practices in Sweden (Karl Hansen)
Song of Norway (Andrew L. Stone)
Week of 30 Oct
Cromwell (Ken Hughes)House of Dark Shadows (Dan Curtis)
Land Raiders (Nathan Juran)
Machine Gun McCain (Giuliano Montaldo)
The McKenzie Break (Lamont Johnson)
The Moonshine War (Richard Quine)
The Pizza Triangle (Ettore Scola)
The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (Billy Wilder)
Taste the Blood of Dracula (Peter Sasdy)
Trog (Freddie Francis)
The Twelve Chairs (Mel Brooks)
WUSA (Stuart Rosenberg)
Week of 23 Oct
Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo)The Daughter (Mac Ahlberg)
Goin' Down the Road (Donald Shebib)
Jack and the Beanstalk (Barry Mohan)
Little Fauss and Big Halsy (Sidney J. Furie)
This Man Must Die (Claude Chabrol)
Time of Roses (Risto Jarva)
Weekend With the Babysitter (Don Henderson)
Week of 16 Oct
C.C. & Company (Seymour Robbie)I Never Sang for My Father (Gilbert Cates)
Ice (Robert Kramer)
King of the Grizzlies (Ron Kelly)
The Lickerish Quartet (Radley Metzger)
The Mind of Mr. Soames (Alan Cooke)
Pieces of Dreams (Daniel Haller)
Week of 9 Oct
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (James Hill)First Love (Maximilian Schell)
The 5-Man Army (Italo Zingarelli)
The Great White Hope (Martin Ritt)
Her and She and Him (Max Pecas)
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (Enzo G. Castellari)
Love Variations (David Grant)
Monte Walsh (William A. Fraker)
Ned Kelly (Tony Richardson)
Trash (Paul Morrissey)
Underground (Arthur H. Nadel)
Week of 2 Oct
The Baby Maker (James Bridges)Cover Me Babe (Noel Black)
Give Her the Moon (Philippe de Broca)
Week of 25 Sep
Black Roots (Lionel Rogosin)Goodbye Gemini (Alan Gibson)
Monster Zero (Ishirô Honda) [1965]
Quiet Days in Clichy (Jens Jorgens Thorsen)
Sunflower (Vittorio De Sica)
Tora! Tora! Tora! (Richard Fleischer)
Tristana (Luis Buñuel)
The War of the Gargantuas (Ishirô Honda) [1966]
Week of 18 Sep
All Together Now (William Louis Allan)The Cheyenne Social Club (Gene Kelly)
The Executioner (Sam Wanamaker)
Kes (Kenneth Loach)
Macho Callahan (Bernard L. Kowalski)
The Naked Zoo (William Grefé)
R.P.M. (Stanley Kramer)
The Stewardesses (Alf Silliman, Jr.)
What Next? (Claes Fellbom)
Week of 11 Sep
Five Easy Pieces (Bob Rafelson)Jesus in Furs (Jess Franco)
Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came (Hy Averback)
The Swappers (Derek Ford)
The Wild Child (François Truffaut)
Week of 4 Sep
Barquero (Gordon Douglas)The Cockeyed Cowboys of Calico County (Tony Leader & Ranald MacDougall)
Night of Bloody Horror (Joy N. Houck, Jr.)
Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini)
The Things of Life (Claude Sautet)
Which Way to the Front? (Jerry Lewis)
Week of 28 Aug
Carry It On (Robert Jones)Eldridge Cleaver (William Klein)
Eugenie (Jesús Franco)
The People Next Door (David Greene)
The Postgraduate (Harold Kovner)
A Quiet Place in the Country (Elio Petri)
Week of 21 Aug
Dreams of Glass (Robert Clouse)It's Your Thing (Mike Gargiulo)
Pound (Robert Downey)
The Rise of Louis XIV (Roberto Rossellini) [1966]
Whirlpool (J.R. Larrath)
Week of 14 Aug
Borsalino (Jacques Deray)Darker Than Amber (Robert Clouse)
Diary of a Mad Housewife (Frank Perry)
He and She (Matt Cimber)
Lovers and Other Strangers (Cy Howard)
Out of It (Paul Williams)
Soldier Blue (Ralph Nelson)
Up in the Cellar (Theodore J. Flicker)
Week of 7 Aug
Ann and Eve (Arne Mattsson)The Games (Michael Winner)
Kill Them All and Come Back Alone (Enzo G. Castellari)
The Losers (Jack Starrett)
The McMasters (Alf Kjellin)
Performance (Donald Cammell & Nicolas Roeg)
Week of 31 Jul
The Angel Levine (Ján Kadár)Chisum (Andrew V. McLaglen)
Entertaining Mr Sloane (Douglas Hickox)
King: A Filmed Record. Montgomery to Memphis (no director credited) [Sidney Lumet and Joseph L. Mankiewicz]
Move (Stuart Rosenberg)
The New Life Style (Just to Be Loved) (Peter Savage)
Week of 24 Jul
The Bird With the Crystal Plumage (Dario Argento)The Christine Jorgensen Story (Irving Rapper)
Cowards (Simon Nuchtern)
Darling Lili (Blake Edwards)
Something for Everyone (Harold Prince)
You Can't Win 'Em All (Peter Collinson)
Week of 17 Jul
Joe (John G. Avildsen)Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (Waris Hussein)
The Revolutionary (Paul Williams)
Week of 10 Jul
The Dunwich Horror (Daniel Haller)Hello-Goodbye (Jean Negulesco)
Scream and Scream Again (Gordon Hessler)
"They Call Me MISTER Tibbs!" (Gordon Douglas)
Week of 3 Jul
The Boatniks (Norman Tokar)Horoscope (Boro Draskovic)
The Last Escape (Walter Grauman)
Mosquito Squadron (Boris Sagal)
Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon (Otto Preminger)
The Virgin and the Gypsy (Christopher Miles)
Week of 26 Jun
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (Russ Meyer)Catch-22 (Mike Nichols)
Freedom to Love (Drs. Eberhard & Phyllis Kronhausen)
Kelly's Heroes (Brian G. Hutton)
Myra Breckinridge (Michael Sarne)
Two Mules for Sister Sara (Don Siegel)
Week of 19 Jun
Censorship in Denmark: A New Approach (Alex de Renzy)El Condor (John Guillermin)
The Hawaiians (Tom Gries)
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever (Vincente Minnelli)
The Strawberry Statement (Stuart Hagmann)
The Super Fight (Murray Woroner)
A Walk in the Spring Rain (Guy Green)
The Zodiac Couples (Alan Roberts & Bob Stein)
Week of 12 Jun
Cotton Comes to Harlem (Ossie Davis)Events (Fred Baker)
Jovita (Janusz Morgenstern) [1967]
One More Time (Jerry Lewis)
The Walking Stick (Eric Till)
Week of 5 Jun
Le Gai Savoir (no director credited) [Jean-Luc Godard]
Week of 29 May
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (Ted Post)Copenhagen 70 (Jorgen Lyhne)
The Dreamer (Dan Wolman)
The Grasshopper (Jerry Paris)
Let It Be (Michael Lindsay-Hogg)
The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart (Leonard Horn)
The Out-of-Towners (Arthur Hiller)
Paddy (Daniel Haller)
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman)
Watermelon Man (Melvin Van Peebles)
The Way We Live Now (Barry Brown)
Week of 22 May
Brand X (Win Chamberlain)I Am Curious (Blue) (Vilgot Sjöman)
The Landlord (Hal Ashby)
The Last Grenade (Gordon Flemyng)
The Laughing Woman (Piero Schivazappa)
Letter From Siberia (Chris Marker) [1958]
Marital Fulfillment (Ferd Sebastian)
Pravda (Dziga-Vertov Group)
Raven's End (Bo Widerberg) [1963]
Rider on the Rain (René Clément)
See You at Mao (Dziga-Vertov Group)
Too Late the Hero (Robert Aldrich)
Week of 15 May
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (Sam Peckinpah)Getting Straight (Richard Rush)
Leo the Last (John Boorman)
My Lover, My Son (John Newland)
Naked Hearts (Edouard Luntz) [1966]
The Passenger (Andrzej Munk) [1963]
Week of 8 May
Bloody Mama (Roger Corman)The Forbin Project (Joseph Sargent)
In Search of Gregory (Peter Wood)
Week of 1 May
Black Is Beautiful (Matt Cimber)The Cycle Savages (Bill Brame)
Diary of a Schizophrenic Girl (Nelo Risi)
Halls of Anger (Paul Bogart)
Hi, Mom! (Brian De Palma)
The Joke (Jaromil Jires)
A Man Called Horse (Elliot Silverstein)
Riverrun (John Korty)
Serafino (Pietro Germi)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard) [1967]
Zig-Zag (Richard A. Colla)
Week of 24 Apr
Brotherly Love (J. Lee Thompson)Cherry, Harry & Raquel! (Russ Meyer)
Early Works (Zelimir Zilnik)
Sympathy for the Devil (1+1) (Jean-Luc Godard)
Thanos & Despina (Nico Papatakis) [1967]
Week of 17 Apr
End of a Priest (Evald Schorm)Every Bastard a King (Uri Zohar)
Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed (Terence Fisher)
Man From Nowhere (Michele Lupo) [1966]
The Man Who Lies (Alain Robbe-Grillet)
Once You Kiss a Stranger (Robert Sparr)
Week of 10 Apr
Boy (Nagisa Oshima)Destroy, She Said (Marguerite Duras)
How to Succeed With Sex (Bert I. Gordon)
Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut)
Sexual Freedom in Denmark (John Lamb)
Week of 3 Apr
Antonio das Mortes (Glauber Rocha)The Mafia Girls (Ed Ross)
The Man From O.R.G.Y. (James A. Hill)
Mister Freedom (William Klein)
The Ruthless Four (Giorgio Capitani)
To Hex With Sex (Simon Nuchtern)
Week of 27 Mar
The Adventurers (Lewis Gilbert)Assignment K (Val Guest)
Bamse (Arne Mattsson)
Mandabi (Ousmane Sembene)
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die (Franco Giraldi) [1967]
Monique (John Bown)
Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (Rod Amateau)
The Sicilian Clan (Henri Verneuil)
Women in Love (Ken Russell)
Woodstock (Michael Wadleigh)
Week of 20 Mar
The Boys in the Band (William Friedkin)Dionysus in '69 (Brian De Palma & Robert Fiore & Bruce Rubin)
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (William Wyler)
Love Is a Funny Thing (Claude Lelouch)
The Most Beautiful Age (Jaroslav Papousek)
My Night at Maud's (Eric Rohmer)
Slogan (Pierre Grimblat)
The Vampire Beast Craves Blood (Vernon Sewell)
We, a Family (Jean Van Hearn)
Winter Wind (Miklós Jancsó)
Week of 13 Mar
Fellini Satyricon (Federico Fellini)Jenny (George Bloomfield)
The Lawyer (Sidney J. Furie)
Mouchette (Robert Bresson) [1967]
Skullduggery (Gordon Douglas)
Week of 6 Mar
Airport (George Seaton)Loving (Irvin Kershner)
Me (Maurice Pialat)
The Mercenary (Sergio Corbucci)
The Only Game in Town (George Stevens)
Week of 27 Feb
A Long Ride From Hell (Alex Burks)The Marriage Manual (Gerard Damiano)
Muhair (Armando Bo) [1967]
Week of 20 Feb
Au hasard Bathazar (Robert Bresson) [1966]An Event (Vatroslav Mimica)
Tropic of Cancer (Joseph Strick)
What Do You Say to a Naked Lady? (Allen Funt)
Week of 13 Feb
End of the Road (Aram Avakian)The Magic Christian (Joseph McGrath)
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly (Freddie Francis)
My Sweet Charlie (Lamont Johnson)
Pinocchio (Walter Beck) [1967]
...tick...tick...tick... (Ralph Nelson)
Zabriskie Point (Michelangelo Antonioni)
Week of 6 Feb
Cat & Mouse (Hans Jürgen Pohland) [1967]Fando and Lis (Alejandro Jodorowsky)
The Flying Matchmaker (Israel Becker) [1966]
The Honeymoon Killers (Leonard Kastle)
The Looking Glass War (Frank R. Pierson)
A Married Couple (Allan King)
The Molly Maguires (Martin Ritt)
Patton (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Start the Revolution Without Me (Bud Yorkin)
The Undefeated (Andrew V. McLaglen)
The Virgin Soldiers (John Dexter)
Week of 30 Jan
The Kremlin Letter (John Huston)The Milky Way (Luis Buñuel)
Other Voices (David H. Sawyer)
Prologue (Robin Spry)
A Time in the Sun (Åke Falck) [1966]
Will the Real Norman Mailer Please Stand Up? (Dick Fontaine)
Week of 23 Jan
The Activist (Art & Jo Napoleon)Anne of the Thousand Days (Charles Jarrett)
The Corporate Queen (John & Lem Amero)
Female Animal (Jerry Gross)
Johnny Cash (Robert Elfstrom)
MASH (Robert Altman)
Viva Max (Jerry Paris)
Week of 16 Jan
Follow Me (Gene McCabe)Last of the Mobile Hot-shots (Sidney Lumet)
The Prince and the Pauper (Elliot Geisinger)
Sticks and Stones (Stan Lopresto)
To Commit a Murder (Édouard Molinaro) [1967]
What's Good for the Goose (Menahem Golan)
Week of 9 Jan
Without a Stitch (Annelise Meineche)