New York City 1971 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
[no films released]
Week of 24 Dec
Dirty Harry (Don Siegel)The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (James Goldstone)
Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby)
Hildur and the Magician (Larry Jordan)
Kidnapped (Delbert Mann)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes)
Star Spangled Girl (Jerry Paris)
Such Good Friends (Otto Preminger)
Week of 17 Dec
The Boy Friend (Ken Russell)Calcutta (Louis Malle)
A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick)
Diamonds Are Forever (Guy Hamilton)
The Dirty Outlaws (Franco Rossetti) [1967]
$ (Richard Brooks)
Even Dwarfs Started Small (Werner Herzog)
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica)
Godzilla's Revenge (Ishirō Honda)
Honky (William A. Graham)
The Hospital (Arthur Hiller)
Le Boucher (Claude Chabrol)
Macbeth (Roman Polanski)
Nicholas and Alexandra (Franklin J. Schaffner)
Targets (Peter Bogdanovich)
Week of 10 Dec
Believe in Me (Stuart Hagmann)The Decameron (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Happy Birthday, Wanda June (Mark Robson)
Made for Each Other (Robert B. Bean)
Someone Behind the Door (Nicolas Gessner)
Week of 3 Dec
The Battle of Love's Return (Lloyd Kaufman)Born to Win (Ivan Passer
Going Home (Herbert B. Leonard)
Prism (Anitra Pivnick)
The Ski Bum (Bruce D. Clark)
Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo (Kihachi Okamoto)
Week of 26 Nov
Black Beauty (James Hill)Deathstyles (Richard Myers)
King Lear (Peter Brook)
Man in the Wilderness (Richard C. Sarafian)
Raga (Howard Worth)
Socrates (Roberto Rossellini)
Week of 19 Nov
The Bus Is Coming (Wendell J. Franklin)Cuba: Battle of the 10,000,000 (Chris Marker)
Maddalena (Jergy Kawalerowicz)
One Night at Dinner (Giuseppe Patroni Griffi)
Othon (Jean-Marie Straub & Danièle Huillet)
Who Says I Can't Ride a Rainbow! (Edward Mann)
Week of 12 Nov
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Robert Stevenson)Far Out, Star Route (Lenny Lipton)
The Haunted Samurai (Keiichi Ozawa)
Jennifer on My Mind (Noel Black)
The Magic of the Kite (Roger Pigaut) [1958]
Secret Rites (Derek Ford)
200 Motels (Tony Palmer & Frank Zappa)
Viva la muerte (Arrabal)
Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? (Ernie Pintoff)
Week of 5 Nov
El topo (Alexandro Jodorowsky)Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison)
Hercules in New York (Arthur A. Seidelman)
Jack Johnson (Willam Cayton)
Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood)
Three Lives (Kate Millett)
Week of 29 Oct
Bless the Beasts & Children (Stanley Kramer)Captain Apache (Alexander Singer)
Medea (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
Punishment Park (Peter Watkins)
The Railway Children (Lionel Jeffries)
A Safe Place (Henry Jaglom)
Some of My Best Friends Are... (Mervyn Nelson)
Week of 22 Oct
Catlow (Sam Wanamaker)Fragment of Fear (Richard C. Sarafian)
The Gladiators (Peter Watkins)
Is There Sex After Death? (Alan & Jeanne Abel)
Joe Hill (Bo Widerberg)
The Organization (Don Medford)
Siv, Anne & Sven (Joe Sarno)
The Todd Killings (Barry Shear)
T.R. Baskin (Herbert Ross)
Women in Cages (Gerry de Leon)
Week of 15 Oct
Bunny O'Hare (Gerd Oswald)Hot Spur (R.L. Frost) [1968]
Murmur of the Heart (Louis Malle)
Night of Dark Shadows (Dan Curtis)
The Scavengers (R.L. Frost)
Shoot Out (Henry Hathaway)
The Velvet Vampire (Stephanie Rothman)
WR—Mysteries of the Organism (Dusan Makavejev)
Week of 8 Oct
Adiós, Sabata (Frank Kramer)The Deviates (Lewis Jackson)
The French Connection (William Friedkin)
It Only Happens to Others (Nadine Marquand Trintignant)
The Peace Killers (Douglas Schwartz)
Sacco & Vanzetti (Giuliano Montaldo)
Zeppelin (Etienne Perier)
Week of 1 Oct
The Debut (Gleb Panfilov)Funnyman (John Korty) [1967]
Kotch (Jack Lemmon)
The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper)
The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich)
Long Ago, Tomorrow (Bryan Forbes)
Millhouse (Emile de Antonio)
Skin Game (Paul Bogart)
The Telephone Book (Nelson Lyon)
The Trojan Women (Michael Cacoyannis)
Week of 24 Sep
The Big City (Carlos Diegues) [1966]Come Together (Saul Swimmer)
Cuba va! (Felix Greene)
Desperate Characters (Frank D. Gilroy)
The Last Rebel (Denys McCoy)
Maidstone (Norman Mailer)
Reggae (Horace Ov´)
Sunday Bloody Sunday (John Schlesinger)
Week of 17 Sep
The Anonymous Venetian (Enrico Maria Salerno)The Bear and the Doll (Michel Deville)
Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (Jeff Young)
Glen and Randa (Jim McBride)
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (Roberto Santos) [1965]
The Steagle (Paul Sylbert)
A Young Couple (René Gainville)
You've Got to Walk It Like You Talk It (Or You'll Lose That Beat) (Peter Locke)
Week of 10 Sep
[no films released]
Week of 3 Sep
The Million Dollar Duck (Vincent McEveety)The Pledgemasters (David P. Parrish)
See No Evil (Richard Fleischer)
Sweet Saviour (Bob Roberts)
Week of 27 Aug
The Big Doll House (Jack Hill)Black Jesus (Valerio Zurlini) [1968]
A Gunfight (Lamont Johnson)
Let's Scare Jessica to Death (John Hancock)
Medicine Ball Caravan (François Reichenbach)
Thermidor (Tinto Brass) [1964]
Week of 20 Aug
Christa (Jack O'Connell)Cry Uncle (John G. Avildsen)
"Doc" (Frank Perry)
Fools' Parade (Andrew V. McLaglen)
Hoa Binh (Raoul Coutard)
Make a Face (Karen Sperling & Avraham Tau)
The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (Lawrence Turman)
Romance of a Horsethief (Abraham Polonsky)
Soul to Soul (Denis Sanders)
Week of 13 Aug
Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski)The Hired Hand (Peter Fonda)
The Omega Man (Boris Sagal)
Week of 6 Aug
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (Robert Fuest)The Brotherhood of Satan (Bernard McEveety)
Johnny Got His Gun (Dalton Trumbo)
Lawman (Michael Winner)
The Love Machine (Jack Haley, Jr.)
Next! (Sergio Martino)
Week of 30 Jul
Billy Jack (T.C, Frank)The Go-Between (Joseph Losey)
On Any Sunday (Bruce Brown)
The Red Tent (Mikhail K. Kalatozov)
Von Richthofen and Brown (Roger Corman)
Week of 23 Jul
Evel Knievel (Marvin Chomsky)The Horsemen (John Frankenheimer)
The House That Screamed (Narciso Ibáñez Serrador)
The Incredible 2-Headed Transplant (Anthony M. Lanza)
The Seven Minutes (Russ Meyer)
Week of 16 Jul
The Brazen Women of Balzac (Josef Zachar)The Devils (Ken Russell)
Dusty and Sweets McGee (Floyd Mutrux)
Figures in a Landscape (Joseph Losey)
The Hunting Party (Don Medford)
The Light at the Edge of the World (Kevin Billington)
The Panic in Needle Park (Jerry Schatzberg)
The Touch (Ingmar Bergman)
Week of 9 Jul
Adrift (Ján Kadár & Elmar Klos)The Last Run (Richard Fleischer)
Mississippi Summer (William Bayer)
The Nun (Jacques Rivette) [1966]
Two-Lane Blacktop (Monte Hellman)
Week of 2 Jul
Carnal Knowledge (Mike Nichols)Glory Boy (Edwin Sherin)
The Hellstrom Chronicle (Walon Green)
Language of Love (Torgny Wickman)
Murphy's War (Peter Yates)
Peter Rabbit and Tales of Beatrix Potter (Reginald Mills)
Shaft (Gordon Parks)
Walkabout (Nicolas Roeg)
What's the Matter With Helen? (Curtis Harrington)
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart)
Week of 25 Jun
Fidel (Saul Landau)Klute (Alan J. Pakula)
Le Mans (Lee H. Katzin)
McCabe and Mrs. Miller (Robert Altman)
Wild Rovers (Blake Edwards)
Week of 18 Jun
The Anderson Tapes (Sidney Lumet)The Clowns (Federico Fellini)
The Crook (Claude Lelouch)
Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)
Fortune and Men's Eyes (Harvey Hart)
The Horror of Frankenstein (Jimmy Sangster)
The Love Clinic (Ferd Sebastian)
Scars of Dracula (Roy Ward Baker)
Summertree (Anthony Newley)
That Splendid November (Mauro Bolognini)
Unman, Wittering and Zigo (John Mackenzie)
Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (Ulu Grosbard)
Willard (Daniel Mann)
Week of 11 Jun
The Deserter (Burt Kennedy)Drive, He Said (Jack Nicholson)
The People and Their Guns (Joris Ivens & Jean-Pierre Sergent)
They Might Be Giants (Anthony Harvey)
Week of 4 Jun
Beyond Control (Helmut Förnbacher) [1968]One More Train to Rob (Andrew V. McLaglen)
Run the Wild River (Jack Currey)
Week of 28 May
The American Dreamer (Lawrence Schiller & L.M. Kit Carson)The Barefoot Executive (Robert Butler)
Big Jake (George Sherman)
Cat o' Nine Tails (Dario Argento)
The Cop (Yves Boisset)
Daughters of Darkness (Harry Kümel)
Escape From the Planet of the Apes (Don Taylor)
The Grissom Gang (Robert Aldrich)
The Holy Outlaw (Don Lenzer & Lee Lockwood)
Pink Narcissus (Anonymous) [James Bidgood]
Support Your Local Gunfighter (Burt Kennedy)
Une femme douce (Robert Bresson)
Villain (Michael Tuchner)
When Eight Bells Toll (Etienne Perier)
Week of 21 May
Dirtymouth (Herbert S. Altman)Guess What We Learned in School Today? (John G. Avildsen)
Making the Blue Film (J. Nehemiah)
Week of 14 May
Blue Water, White Death (Peter Gimbel & James Lipscomb)Ira, You'll Get Into Trouble (Stephen Sbarge)
Mrs. Pollifax—Spy (Leslie Martinson)
The Night Digger (Alastair Reid)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Casper Wrede)
Plaza Suite (Arthur Hiller)
Red Sky at Morning (James Goldstone)
10 Rillington Place (Richard Fleischer)
Week of 7 May
The Long Walk (Phillip Greene)Report From China (Toshie Tokieda)
Week of 30 Apr
Bananas (Woody Allen)Nana (Mac Ahlberg)
Percy (Ralph Thomas)
Pretty Maids All in a Row (Roger Vadim)
Vladimir and Rosa (Groupe Dziga Vertov)
Week of 23 Apr
Derby (Robert Kaylor)Guns of Tobruk (Mario Siciliano)
The House That Dripped Blood (Peter Duffell)
La Collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer) [1967]
Raid on Rommel (Henry Hathaway)
Saturday Morning (Kent MacKenzie)
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (Melvin Van Peebles)
Week of 16 Apr
The Beast in the Cellar (James Kelly)The Blood on Satan's Claw (Piers Haggard)
Breathing Together: Revolution of the Electric Family (Morley Markson)
Johnny Minotaur (Charles Henri Ford)
Margo (Menahem Golan)
Samurai Banners (Hiroshi Inagaki) Summer of '42 (Robert Mulligan)
Week of 9 Apr
Branches (Ed Emshwiller)Celebration at Big Sur (Baird Bryant & Johanna Demetrakas)
4 Clowns (Robert Youngson)
Ginger (Don Schain)
The Mephisto Waltz (Paul Wendkos)
Right On! (Herbert Danska)
Set-Up (Nicholas Doob)
Shinbone Alley (John D. Wilson)
Valdez Is Coming (Edwin Sherin)
Week of 2 Apr
And Soon the Darkness (Robert Fuest)The Beguiled (Donald Siegel)
B.S. I Love You (Steven Hillard Stern)
The Emperor and the General (Kihachi Okamoto) [1967]
Flight of the Doves (Ralph Nelson)
Mad Dogs & Englishmen (Pierre Adidge)
Waterloo (Sergei Bondarchuk)
Week of 26 Mar
Brother John (James Goldstone)Friends (Lewis Gilbert)
Gas! or It Became Necessary to Destroy the World in Order to Save It (Roger Corman)
Innocence Unprotected (Dusan Makavejev) [1968]
Melody (Waris Hussein)
Quick Billy (Bruce Baillie)
A Severed Head (Dick Clement)
Silence Has No Wings (Kazuo Kuroki) [1966]
Taking Off (Milos Forman)
Vanishing Point (Richard C. Sarafian)
Week of 19 Mar
The Andromeda Strain (Robert Wise)Blood and Lace (Philip Gilbert)
Bora Bora (Ugo Liberatore) [1968]
Cold Turkey (Norman Lear)
The Conformist (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Making It (John Erman)
When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (Val Guest)
Week of 12 Mar
Brandy in the Wilderness (Stanton Kaye)The Buttercup Chain (Robert Ellis Miller)
The Crucified Lovers (Kenji Mizoguchi) [1954]
Dead of Summer (Nelo Risi)
A New Leaf (Elaine May)
Ruby (Dick Bartlett)
THX 1138 (George Lucas)
Week of 5 Mar
Beyond Love and Evil (Jacques Scandelari)Five Bloody Graves (Al Adamson)
Get Carter (Mike Hodges)
Horror of the Blood Monsters (Al Adamson)
The Man Who Had Power Over Women (John Krish)
The Phantom Tollbooth (Chuck Jones & Abe Levitow)
The Tender Moment (Michel Boisrond) [1968]
Week of 26 Feb
The Body (Roy Battersby)The Hour of the Furnaces, Part I (Fernando Ezequiel Solanas) [1968]
The Priest's Wife (Dino Risi)
The Pursuit of Happiness (Robert Mulligan)
Road to Salina (George Lautner)
The Sporting Club (Larry Peerce)
Wanda (Barbara Loden)
Week of 19 Feb
Claire's Knee (Eric Rohmer)Wuthering Heights (Robert Fuest)
Week of 12 Feb
The Garden of Delights (Carlos Saura)Little Murders (Alan Arkin)
The Night Visitor (Laslo Benedek)
Relations (Hans Abramson)
Rio Lobo (Howard Hawks)
Some Girls Do (Ralph Thomas) Sudden Terror (John Hough)
Why Not: A Serenade of Eschatological Ecology (Arakawa)
The Wild Country (Robert Totten)
The Wishing Machine (Josef Pinkava)
Week of 5 Feb
Doctors' Wives (George Schaefer)How Do I Love Thee? (Michael Gordon)
Julius Caesar (Stuart Burge)
Pigeons (John Dexter)
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (Jerry Schatzberg)
Ramparts of Clay (Jean-Louis Bertuccelli)
Say Hello to Yesterday (Alvin Rakoff)
The Vampire Lovers (Roy Ward Baker)
Week of 29 Jan
Beast of Blood (Eddie Romero)Curse of the Vampires (Gerardo de Leon) [1966]
The Last Valley (James Clavell)
The Statue (Rod Amateau)
Tales (Cassandra Gerstein)
Zachariah (George England)
Week of 22 Jan
Bed and Board (François Truffaut)The Music Lovers (Ken Russell)
The Projectionist (Harry Hurwitz)
Promise at Dawn (Jules Dassin)
Psychout for Murder (Edward Ross)
The Reckoning (Jack Gold)
Week of 15 Jan
Akran (Richard Myers)From Ear to Ear (Louis Soulanes)
Lupo! (Menahem Golan)
Week of 8 Jan
[No films released.]
Week of 1 Jan
[No films released.]