New York City 1973 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 28 Dec
The Exorcist (William Friedkin)Magnum Force (Ted Post)
The Sting (George Roy Hill)
Week of 21 Dec
Alfredo Alfredo (Pietro Germi)Cinderella Liberty (Mark Rydell)
The Day of the Dolphin (Mike Nichols)
The Deadly Trackers (Barry Shear)
Fantastic Planet (René Laloux)
Hell up in Harlem (Larry Cohen)
Jimi Hendrix (Joe Boyd & John Head & Gary Weis)
A King in New York (Charles Chaplin) [1957]
The Laughing Policeman (Stuart Rosenberg)
Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner)
The Seven-Ups (Philip D'Antoni)
Sleeper (Woody Allen)
That Man Bolt (Henry Levin & David Lowell Rich)
Week of 14 Dec
Happy New Year (Claude Lelouch)Henry VIII and His Six Wives (Waris Hussein)
Love Times Three (Nino Casale)
Snapshots (Irving Horowitz)
Superchick (Ed Forsyth)
Week of 7 Dec
The Big Bust-Out (Richard Jackson)David Holzman's Diary (Jim McBride) [1967]
Don't Look Now (Nicolas Roeg)
Serpico (Sidney Lumet)
The Student Teachers (Jonathan Kaplan)
Week of 30 Nov
Don't Look in the Basement (S.F. Brownrigg)The Room of Chains (Gérard Trembasiewicz) [1970]
The Runaway (Bickford Otis Webber)
Week of 23 Nov
Ash Wednesday (Larry Peerce)Battle of the Amazons (Al Bradley)
Hot Pepper (Les Blank)
Sambizanga (Sarah Maldoror)
Westworld (Michael Crichton)
Week of 16 Nov
Breezy (Clint Eastwood)The Don Is Dead (Richard Fleischer)
England Made Me (Peter Duffell)
The French Conspiracy (Yves Boisset)
Hurry Up, or I'll be 30 (Joseph Jacoby)
The Merchant of Four Seasons (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Scalawag (Kirk Douglas)
Some Call It Loving (James B. Harris)
Week of 9 Nov
Executive Action (David Miller)Invasion of the Bee Girls (Denis Sanders)
The Manhandlers (Lee Madden)
Robin Hood (Wolfgang Reitherman)
The Screaming Tiger (Lung Kin)
Showdown (George Seaton)
Week of 2 Nov
Don Quixote (Rudolf Nureyev & Robert Helpmann)The Italian Connection (Fernando Di Leo)
Nurses Report (Walter Boos)
The Roommates (Arthur Marks)
Seven Blows of the Dragon (Chang Cheh)
Tales That Witness Madness (Freddie Francis)
Triple Echo (Michael Apted)
Week of 26 Oct
The All-American Boy (Charles Eastman)Five on the Black Hand Side (Oscar Williams)
Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Hall Bartlett)
The Long Goodbye (Robert Altman)
Massacre in Rome (George Pan Cosmatos)
The New Land (Jan Troell)
Week of 19 Oct
Charley Varrick (Don Siegel)Howzer (Ken Lawrence)
I Escaped From Devil's Island (William Witney)
I.F. Stone's Weekly (Jerry Bruck, Jr.)
The Inheritor (Philippe Labro)
Late Autumn (Yasujirô Ozu) [1960]
The Optimists (Anthony Simmons)
The Outside Man (Jacques Deray)
The Paper Chase (James Bridges)
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (Gilbert Cates)
Summertime Killer (Antonio Isasi)
The Way We Were (Sydney Pollack)
Year of the Woman (Sandra Hochman)
Week of 12 Oct
Carriage Trade (Warren Sonbert)Mean Streets (Martin Scorsese)
Week of 5 Oct
Ben-Gurion Remembers (Simon Hesera)Day for Night (François Truffaut)
The Second Gun (Gérard Alcan)
SuperSonic SuperGirls (Alf Silliman, Jr.)
What? (Roman Polanski)
Week of 28 Sep
Corky (Leonard Horn)Deadly China Doll (Huang Feng)
From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (Fielder Cook)
¡Qué hacer! (Saul Landau & Raúl Ruiz & Nina Serrano)
Sisters (Brian De Palma)
The Slams (Jonathan Kaplan)
A Tear in the Ocean (Henri Glaeser)
Week of 21 Sep
Arnold's Wrecking Co. (Steve De Souza)Get to Know Your Rabbit (Brian De Palma)
The Grande Bouffe (Marco Ferreri)
Harry in Your Pocket (Bruce Geller)
Hit! (Sidney J. Furie)
Save the Children (Stan Lathan)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door (Ivan Dixon)
Week of 14 Sep
Campus Swingers (Ernst Hofbauer)Le Retour d'Afrique (Alain Tanner)
The Shanghai Killers (Wang Tian-lin)
Week of 7 Sep
[no films released]
Week of 31 Aug
Lake of Dracula (Michio Yamamoto)Slaughter's Big Rip-off (Gordon Douglas)
The Stone Killer (Michael Winner)
The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe (Yves Robert)
Week of 24 Aug
Bang the Drum Slowly (John Hancock)
Week of 17 Aug
Cops and Robbers (Aram Avakian)Electra Glide in Blue (James William Guercio)
Enter the Dragon (Robert Clouse)
Happy Mother's Day, Love, George (Darren McGavin)
Week of 10 Aug
American Grafitti (George Lucas)Gordon's War (Ossie Davis)
Heavy Traffic (Ralph Bakshi)
Jesus Christ Superstar (Norman Jewison)
Night Watch (Brian G. Hutton)
Visions of Eight (various)
White Lightning (Joseph Sargent)
Week of 3 Aug
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf (Nathan H. Juran)Dillinger (John Milius)
Jeremy (Arthur Barron)
Lady Ice (Tom Gries)
Le Sex Shop (Claude Berri)
Loops (Shaun Costello & Bill Markle)
Maurie (Daniel Mann)
The Neptune Factor (Daniel Petrie)
Sssssss (Bernard L. Kowalski)
Week of 27 Jul
Badge 373 (Howard W. Koch)Blood of the Condor (Jorge Sanjin´s) [1969]
Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears (Paolo Cavara)
Full Time Females (Jean-Marie Pallardy)
Hail to the Chief (Fred Levinson)
The Hong Kong Cat (Kong Hung)
The Last American Hero (Lamont Johnson)
The Legend of Boggy Creek (Charles Pierce)
The Mackintosh Man (John Huston)
Week of 20 Jul
The Adversary (Satyajit Ray) [1970]I Could Never Have Sex With Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband (Robert McCarty)
Scream Blacula Scream (Bob Kelljan)
Siddhartha (Conrad Rooks)
Week of 13 Jul
Battle for the Planet of the Apes (J. Lee Thompson)Cahill: United States Marshal (Andrew V. McLaglen)
Prison Guard (Ivan Renc) [1970]
Week of 6 Jul
Cleopatra Jones (Jack Starrett)Diary of a Shinjuku Burglar (Nagisa Oshima) [1969]
Oklahoma Crude (Stanley Kramer)
Week of 29 Jun
Charley and the Angel (Vincent McEveety)40 Carats (Milton Katselas)
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (Peter Yates)
Live and Let Die (Guy Hamilton)
The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing (Richard C. Sarafian)
Operation Leontine (Michel Audiard) [1968]
Play Time (Jacques Tati) [1967]
Week of 22 Jun
Shaft in Africa (John Guillermin)A Touch of Class (Melvin Frank)
Trader Horn (Reza S. Badiyi)
Week of 15 Jun
Blume in Love (Paul Mazursky)Coffy (Jack Hill)
The Hireling (Alan Bridges)
Interval (Daniel Mann)
Jonathan (Hans W. Geissendörfer) [1970]
The Last of Sheila (Herbert Ross)
The Legend of Hell House (John Hough)
O Lucky Man! (Lindsay Anderson)
Red Psalm (Miklós Jancsó)
Super Fly T.N.T. (Ron O'Neal)
Wicked, Wicked (Richard L. Bare)
Week of 8 Jun
The Cheerleaders (Paul Glickler)Elvis on Tour (Pierre Adidge & Robert Abel)
Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto) [1969]
Week of 1 Jun
First Position (William Richert)
Week of 25 May
A Doll's House (Patrick Garland)Emperor of the North Pole (Robert Aldrich)
Girls Are for Loving (Don Schain)
Happiness (Aleksandr Medvedkin) [1935]
Let the Good Times Roll (Sid Levin & Bob Abel)
The Mattei Affair (Francesco Rosi)
Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (Sam Peckinpah)
Sweet Jesus Preacher Man (Henning Schellerup)
A Warm December (Sidney Poitier)
Week of 18 May
The Day of the Jackal (Fred Zinnemann)Dirty Little Billy (Stan Dragoti)
Extreme Close-Up (Jeannot Szwarc)
Memories of Underdevelopment (Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) [1968]
Paper Moon (Peter Bogdanovich)
The Soul of Nigger Charley (Larry G. Spangler)
Week of 11 May
An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu) [1962]The Harrad Experiment (Ted Post)
Hitler: The Last Ten Days (Ennio De Concini)
L'Amour (Andy Warhol & Paul Morrissey)
The Offence (Sidney Lumet)
The P.O.W. (Philip H. Dossick)
Theatre of Blood (Douglas Hickox)
Week of 4 May
Deep Thrust—The Hand of Death (Huang Feng)Fists of Fury (Lo Wei)
You're Lying (Vilgot Sjöman) [1969]
Week of 27 Apr
—And Now the Screaming Starts! (Roy Ward Baker)Here Comes Every Body (John Whitmore)
To Be Free (Ned Bosnick) [1970]
Wedding in White (William Fruet)
Week of 20 Apr
Behind the Green Door (James & Artie Mitchell)Charley-One-Eye (Don Chaffey)
Ciao! Manhattan (John Palmer & David Weisman)
Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn)
High Plains Drifter (Clint Eastwood)
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (Nelson Pereira dos Santos)
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing (Alan J. Pakula)
The Nelson Affair (James Cellan Jones)
Scorpio (Michael Winner)
Soylent Green (Richard Fleischer)
Week of 13 Apr
Book of Numbers (Raymond St. Jacques)The Challenges (Claudio Guerín/José Luis Egea/Victor Erice) [1969]
Class of '44 (Paul Bogart)
Scarecrow (Jerry Schatzberg)
State of Siege (Costa-Gavras)
The Swingin' Stewardesses (Michael Thomas)
The Young Seducers (Michael Thomas)
Week of 6 Apr
Brother Sun, Sister Moon (Franco Zeffirelli)Come Have Coffee With Us (Alberto Lattuada) [1970]
The Mack (Michael Campus)
Week of 30 Mar
I Am a Dancer (Pierre Jourdan)Phèdre (Pierre Jourdan) [1968]
Week of 23 Mar
Black Mama, White Mama (Eddie Romero)The Crazies (George A. Romero)
The Devil in Miss Jones (Gerard Damiano)
5 Fingers of Death (Chang Ho Cheng)
Godspell (David Greene)
Love (Károly Makk)
Massage Parlor '73 (Eberhard Schröder)
Money Money Money (Claude Lelouch)
Painters Painting (Emile de Antonio)
Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me (François Truffaut)
Treasure Island (John Hough)
Week of 16 Mar
Class of '74 (Arthur Marks & Mack Bing)Days and Nights in the Forest (Satyajit Ray) [1970]
Fear Is the Key (Michael Tuchner)
Lost Horizon (Charles Jarrott)
The Roommates (Arthur Marks)
Tom Sawyer (Don Taylor)
Two People (Robert Wise)
Vault of Horror (Roy Ward Baker)
White Sister (Alberto Lattuada)
Week of 9 Mar
The Blind Dead (Amando de Ossorio)The Hero (Richard Harris) [1970]
Ludwig (Luchino Visconti)
Slither (Howard Zieff)
Twitch of the Death Nerve (Mario Bava)
Week of 2 Mar
Baxter! (Lionel Jeffries)Hunger for Love (Nelson Pereira dos Santos) [1968]
The Thief Who Came to Dinner (Bud Yorkin)
Week of 23 Feb
Charlotte's Web (Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto)Childhood II (Martin J. Spinelli)
Lolly-Madonna XXX (Richard C. Sarafian)
Payday (Daryl Duke)
Slaughter Hotel (Fernando Di Leo)
Ten From Your Show of Shows (Max Liebman)
Week of 16 Feb
I Love You Rosa (Moshe Mizrahi)Save the Tiger (John G. Avildsen)
Tout va bien (Jean-Luc Godard & Jean-Pierre Gorin)
Viva la muerte (Fernando Arrabal)
Wattstax (Mel Stuart)
Week of 9 Feb
Baron Blood (Mario Bava)Black Caesar (Larry Cohen)
Carry On Doctor (Gerald Thomas) [1967]
The Creeping Flesh (Freddie Francis)
Emitaï (Ousmane Sembene)
The Harder They Come (Perry Henzell)
Lady Caroline Lamb (Robert Bolt)
Pulp (Mike Hodges)
A Reflection of Fear (William A. Fraker)
Snowball Express (Norman Tokar)
The Thing With Two Heads (Lee Frost)
The Train Robbers (Burt Kennedy)
Week of 2 Feb
Boot Hill (Giuseppe Colizzi) [1969]The Hitch-hikers (Beverly & Ferd Sebastian)
Last Tango in Paris (Bernardo Bertolucci)
Private Parts (Paul Bartel)
Shamus (Buzz Kulik)
Steelyard Blues (Alan Myerson)
The World's Greatest Athlete (Robert Scheerer)
Week of 26 Jan
Innocent Bystanders (Peter Collinson)Life Study (Michael Nebbia)
Limbo (Mark Robson)
The Sin of Adam and Eve (Miguel Zacarías) [1969]
Sweet Sugar (Michel Levesque)
Trick Baby (Larry Yust)
Week of 19 Jan
Death of a Jew (Denys de la Patelliere) [1969]If I Had a Gun (Stefan Uher)
Under Milk Wood (Andrew Sinclair)
Week of 12 Jan
The First Circle (Aleksander Ford)Imagine (John Lennon & Yoko Ono)
Week of 5 Jan
Mother (Radley Metzger)The Spider's Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci) [1970]