New York City 1964 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. This is the earliest year for which I currently have records. Films seen by yours truly are in blue.)
Week of 28 Feb
He Rides Tall (R.G. Springsteen)Two Are Guilty (André Cayatte)
Young and Willing (Ralph Thomas)
Week of 21 Feb
Captain Newman, M.D. (David Miller)The Day & the Hour (René Clément)
Dead Ringer (Paul Henreid)
The Fire Within (Louis Malle)
Fun in Acapulco (Allan Weiss)
Man's Favorite Sport? (Howard Hawks)
Optimistic Tragedy (Samson Samsonov)
Puss n' Boots (Roberto Rodríguez) [1961]
Seven Days in May (John Frankenheimer)
Shorts Program (various, included "The Critic")
Week of 14 Feb
Different Sons (Yasuki Chiba) [1961]Dr. Crippen (Robert Lynn)
Harbor Lights (Maury Dexter)
Psycho-mania (Richard L. Hilliard)*
Sunday in New York (Peter Tewksbury)
* now more commonly known as Violent Midnight
Week of 7 Feb
Dark Purpose (George Marshall)Die Fledermaus (Géza von Cziffra)
Kings of the Sun (J. Lee Thompson)
The Mouse on the Moon (Richard Lester)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman)
The Swedish Mistress (Vilgot Sjöman)
A Yank in Viet-Nam (Marshall Thompson)
Week of 31 Jan
The Chaplin Revue (Charlie Chaplin) [1959]Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (Stanley Kubrick)
The Fiancés (Ermanno Olmi)
The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman)
A Pair of Briefs (Ralph Thomas)
The Prodigal Son (Hiromichi Horikawa) [1957]
Pyro: The Thing Without a Face (Julio Coll)
The Seventh Juror (Georges Lautner)
Week of 24 Jan
...And Suddenly It's Murder! (Mario Camerini) [1960]Chelkash (Fyodor Filippov) [1957]
Children of the Damned (Anton Leader)
The Comedy of Terrors (Jacques Tourneur)
Forty Nine Days (Genrikh Gabay)
The Guest (Clive Donner)
The Prize (Mark Robson)
Strait-Jacket (William Castle)
Week of 17 Jan
Bandits on the Wind (Hiroshi Inagaki) [1961]The Doll (Arne Mattsson)
Point of Order (Emile de Antonio)
Week of 10 Jan
Moderato Cantabile (Peter Brook)Week of 3 Jan
[no films released]