New York City 1974 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 27 Dec
Abby (William Girdler)Freebie and the Bean (Richard Rush)
Week of 20 Dec
Black Thursday (Michel Mitrani)Campus Pussycats (Ernst Hofbauer)
The Front Page (Billy Wilder)
The Island at the Top of the World (Robert Stevenson)
The Man With the Golden Gun (Guy Hamilton)
Old Fashioned Woman (Martha Coolidge)
Stavisky... (Alain Resnais)
Steppenwolf (Fred Haines)
That'll Be the Day (Claude Whatham)
The Towering Inferno (John Guillermin)
Week of 13 Dec
Commuter Husbands (Derek Ford)Emmanuelle (Just Jaeckin)
The Godfather, Part II (Francis Ford Coppola)
Journey Through the Past (Bernard Shakey)
Les Violons du bal (Michael Drach)
The Models (Andrée Marchand)
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks)
Week of 6 Dec
Madhouse (Jim Clark)Super Stooges vs. the Wonder Women (Al Bradley)
Week of 29 Nov
The Green Hornet (William Beaudine/Norman Foster/E. Darrell Hallenbeck)A Murder Is a Murder... (Etienne Périer)
Week of 22 Nov
The Klansman (Terence Young)Last Days of Man on Earth (Robert Fuest)
Mr. Superinvisible (Anthony M. Dawson) [1970]
Mixed Company (Melville Shavelson)
Murder on the Orient Express (Sidney Lumet)
The 3 Stooges Follies (various)
Week of 15 Nov
Earthquake (Mark Robson)Hindered (Stephen Dwoskin)
Lucky Luciano (Francesco Rosi)
The Savage Is Loose (George C. Scott)
The Trial of Billy Jack (Frank Laughlin)
A Woman Under the Influence (John Cassavetes)
Week of 8 Nov
Confessions of a Window Cleaner (Val Guest)Le Trio infernal (Francis Girod)
Lenny (Bob Fosse)
The Little Prince (Stanley Donen)
The Nada Gang (Claude Chabrol)
Week of 1 Nov
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder)Amazing Grace (Stan Lathan)
Big Bad Mama (Steve Carver)
Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter (Brian Clemens)
The Family (Sergio Sollima) [1970]
Frankenstein and the Monster From Hell (Terence Fisher)
Open Season (Peter Collinson)
Phantom of the Paradise (Brian De Palma)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (Tobe Hooper)
Week of 25 Oct
The Phantom of Liberté (Luis Buñuel)
Week of 18 Oct
Airport 1975 (Jack Smight)The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (Arthur Hiller)
Gold (Peter Hunt)
The Great Battle (Yuri Ozerov)
The Odessa File (Ronald Neame)
Phase IV (Saul Bass)
Week of 11 Oct
Alvin Purple (Tim Burstall)Antonia: A Portrait of the Woman (Judy Collins & Jill Godmilow)
The Depraved (Gustav Wiklund) [1971]
Dodes-ka'den (Akira Kurosawa) [1970]
Lacombe, Lucien (Louis Malle)
Law and Disorder (Ivan Passer)
Shanks (William Castle)
The Widow Couderc (Pierre Granier-Deferre) [1971]
Week of 4 Oct
The Abdication (Anthony Harvey)The Goat Horn (Metodi Andonov)
The House That Vanished (Joseph Larraz)
The Murdered House (Paulo César Saraceni) [1971]
The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani)
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (Joseph Sargent)
Til Sex Do Us Part (Vilgot Sjöman) [1971]
Week of 27 Sep
11 Harrowhouse (Aram Avakian)The Internecine Project (Ken Hughes)
Juggernaut (Richard Lester)
The Mutations (Jack Cardiff)
Week of 20 Sep
Amarcord (Federico Fellini)Minamata (Noriaki Tsuchimoto) [1971]
The Promised Land (Miguel Littin)
Week of 13 Sep
The Devil's Triangle (Richard Winer) [1971]Policewomen (Lee Frost)
Scenes From a Marriage (Ingmar Bergman)
UFO: Target Earth (Michael A. de Gaetano)
Week of 6 Sep
The Black Godfather (John Evans)The Castle of Purity (Arthur Ripstein)
Week of 30 Aug
99 and 44/100% Dead! (John Frankenheimer)Savage Sisters (Eddie Romero)
Week of 23 Aug
Buster and Billie (Daniel Petrie)The Girl From Petrovka (Robert Ellis Miller)
The Longest Yard (Robert Aldrich)
Newman's Law (Richard Heffron)
Pink Floyd (Adrian Maben)
Week of 16 Aug
Black Samson (Charles Bail)Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Sam Peckinpah)
Harry & Tonto (Paul Mazursky)
The RA Expeditions (Lennart Ehrenborg) [1971]
Week of 9 Aug
California Split (Robert Altman)Chinese Hercules (Tak Choy)
Ophelia (Claude Chabrol) [1963]
Return of the Dragon (Bruce Lee)
Score (Radley Metzger)
Together Brothers (William A. Graham)
Week of 2 Aug
Bank Shot (Gower Champion)Escape to Nowhere (Claude Pinoteau)
Pigpen (Pier Paolo Pasolini) [1969]
Week of 26 Jul
Death Wish (Michael Winner)Flesh Gordon (Howard Ziehm & Michael Benveniste)
Week of 19 Jul
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Ted Kotcheff)The Education of Sonny Carson (Michael Campus)
Golden Needles (Robert Clouse)
The Mad Adventures of "Rabbi" Jacob (Gérard Oury)
Mr. Majestyk (Richard Fleischer)
My Name Is Nobody (Tonino Valerii)
Nayak (Satyajit Ray) [1966]
The White Dawn (Philip Kaufman)
Week of 12 Jul
Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (John Hough)Promised Lands (Susan Sontag)
The Tamarind Seed (Blake Edwards)
Week of 5 Jul
Charulata (Satyajit Ray) [1964]
Week of 28 Jun
Bootleggers (Charles B. Pierce)For Pete's Sake (Peter Yates)
The Nine Lives of Fritz the Cat (Robert Taylor)
S•P•Y•S (Irvin Kershner)
The Take (Robert Hartford-Davis)
Three the Hard Way (Gordon Parks, Jr.)
Truck Turner (Jonathan Kaplan)
A Very Natural Thing (Christopher Larkin)
Week of 21 Jun
Chinatown (Roman Polanski)The Groove Tube (Ken Shapiro)
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula)
The Seduction of Mimi (Lina Wertmüller)
The Terminal Man (Mike Hodges)
Week of 14 Jun
A Free Woman (Volker Schlöndorff)The Gravy Train (Jack Starrett)
The Midnight Man (Roland Kibbee)
The Teacher (Hikmet Avedis)
Uptown Saturday Night (Sidney Poitier)
The Young Graduates (Robert Anderson) [1971]
Week of 7 Jun
Dirty O'Neil (Howard Freen)Herbie Rides Again (Robert Stevenson)
Malizia (Salvatore Samperi)
They Call Her One Eye (Alex Fridolinski)
Where the Lilies Bloom (William A. Graham)
Week of 31 May
[no films released]
Week of 24 May
Chosen Survivors (Sutton Roley)Daisy Miller (Peter Bogdanovich)
The Divine Mr. J (Peter Alexander) [1971]
Huckleberry Finn (J. Lee Thompson)
The Stoolie (John G. Avildsen)
That's Entertainment! (Jack Haley, Jr.)
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (Michael Cimino)
Wedding in Blood (Claude Chabrol)
Week of 17 May
Black Eye (Jack Arnold)The Black Windmill (Don Siegel)
Frankenstein (Paul Morrissey)
Going Places (Bertrand Blier)
Two Men of Karamoja (Natalie & Eugene Jones)
Zandy's Bride (Jan Troell)
Week of 10 May
Kazablan (Menahem Golan)Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir (Jean Renoir) [1970]
The Naughty Stewardesses (Al Adamson)
Rainbow Bridge (Chuck Wein)
Week of 3 May
The Baddest Daddy in the Whole World (Fred Haines)Chisholm: Pursuing the Dream (Robert Denby & Tom Werner)
The Lords of Flatbush (Stephen F. Verona & Martin Davidson)
The Spikes Gang (Richard Fleischer)
Week of 26 Apr
Claudine (John Berry)The Outfit (John Flynn)
Willie Dynamite (Gilbert Moses, III)
Week of 19 Apr
The House on Chelouche Street (Moshe Mizrahi)Ladies & Gentlemen (Rollin Binzer)
Zatoichi's Conspiracy (Kimiyoshi Yasuda>
Week of 12 Apr
Attica (Cinda Firestone)Letter to Jane (Jean-Luc Godard)
Love & Anarchy (Lina Wertmüller)
Lovin' Molly (Sidney Lumet)
Our Time (Peter Hyams)
Thomasine & Bushrod (Gordon Parks, Jr.)
Week of 5 Apr
Bible! (Wakefield Poole)Black Socks (Ronald Sullivan)
The Conversation (Francis Ford Coppola)
Foxy Brown (Jack Hill)
The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (Gordon Hessler)
Mark of the Devil Part II (Adrian Hoven)
The Three Musketeers (Richard Lester)
Week of 29 Mar
Conrack (Martin Ritt)The Great Gatsby (Jack Clayton)
The Pyx (Harvey Hart)
The Sugarland Express (Steven Spielberg)
Your Three Minutes Are Up (Douglas N. Schwartz)
Week of 22 Mar
Badlands (Terrence Malick)Catch My Soul (Patrick McGoohan)
In the Name of the Father (Marco Bellocchio) [1971]
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache)
The Ragman's Daughter (Harold Becker)
The Super Cops (Gordon Parks)
Week of 15 Mar
The Black Six (Matt Cimber)Three Tough Guys (Duccio Tessari)
Week of 8 Mar
Africa Uncensored (Angelo Castiglioni & Guido Guerrasio) [1971]Lightning Swords of Death (Kenji Mismumi)
Mame (Gene Saks)
Montreal Main (Frank Vitale)
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Jaromil Jires) [1970]
Week of 1 Mar
Busting (Peter Hyams)Chariots of the Gods (Dr. Harald Reinl) [1970]
Lucía (Humberto Solas) [1968]
Man on a Swing (Frank Perry)
The Pedestrian (Maximilian Schell)
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (Jonas Mekas)
Week of 22 Feb
[no films released]
Week of 15 Feb
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (William Sterling)Crazy Joe (Carlo Lizzani)
Death by Hanging (Nagisa Oshima) [1968]
Thieves Like Us (Robert Altman)
Week of 8 Feb
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks)The Ceremony (Nagisa Oshima) [1971]
Deep Throat Part II (Joe Sarno)
The Jail (Michael Anderson & Paul Jacobs & Saul Landau & Bill Yahraus)
The Last Detail (Hal Ashby)
The Lion Has Seven Heads (Glauber Rocha) [1970]
McQ (John Sturges)
Partner. (Bernardo Bertolucci) [1968]
Sugar Hill (Paul Maslansky)
Superdad (Vincent McEveety)
Zardoz (John Boorman)
Week of 1 Feb
Man Is Not a Bird (Dusan Makavekev) [1965]Road Movie (Joseph Strick)
Week of 25 Jan
Bamboo Gods & Iron Men (Cesar Gallardo)Black Belt Jones (Robert Clouse)
The Death Wheelers (Don Sharp)
Horror Express (Gene Martin)
Vanishing Wilderness (Arthur R. Dubs & Heinz Sielmann)
Willie Dynamite (Gilbert Moses III)
Week of 18 Jan
Big Zapper (Lindsay Shonteff)The Sacred Knives of Vengeance (Chu Yuan)
Week of 11 Jan
Bone (Larry Cohen)Fly Me (Cirio Santiago)
¡Tupamaros! (Jan Lindkvist)
When the People Awake (Alfonso Beato)
The Young Nurses (Clinton Kimbro)
Week of 4 Jan
"Big Foot": Man or Beast (Lawrence Crowley)Cry of the Wild (Bill Mason)