New York City 1992 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.)
30–31 Dec
Il Portaborse (Daniele Luchetti)Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller)
Roy Rogers: King of the Cowboys (Thys Ockersen)
Week of 25 Dec
Chaplin (Richard Attenborough)Damage (Louis Malle)
Hoffa (Danny DeVito)
Indochine (Régis Wargnier)
Peter's Friends (Kenneth Branagh)
Scent of a Woman (Martin Brest)
Trespass (Walter Hill)
Week of 18 Dec
Forever Young (Steve Miner)Leap of Faith (Richard Pearce)
Passion Fish (John Sayles)
The Short and Funnies (various)
Toys (Barry Levinson)
Used People (Beeban Kidron)
Week of 11 Dec
A Few Good Men (Rob Reiner)Love Field (Jonathan Kaplan)
The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson)
Night and Day (Chantal Akerman)
Week of 4 Dec
Daddy and the Muscle Academy (Ilppo Pohjola)The Distinguished Gentleman (Jonathan Lynn)
El bosque animado (José Luis Cuerda) [1987]
Week of 27 Nov
The Bodyguard (Mick Jackson)The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)
Week of 20 Nov
Bad Lieutenant (Abel Ferrara)Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (Chris Columbus)
Intervista (Federico Fellini) [1987]
Malcolm X (Spike Lee)
The Most Beautiful Night (Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón) [1984]
1991: The Year Punk Broke (Dave Markey)
To Render a Life (Ross Spears)
Week of 13 Nov
Aladdin (John Musker & Ron Clements)Aventis (Vicente Aranda) [1989]
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola)
Damned in the USA (Paul Yule)
The Giving (Eames Demetrios)
Love Potion #9 (Dale Launer)
Tous les matins du monde (Alain Corneau)
Traces of Red (Andy Wolk)
Week of 6 Nov
Becoming Colette (Danny Huston)The Efficiency Expert (Mark Joffe)
Fathers and Sons (Paul Mones)
Flirting (John Duigan)
Hugh Hefner: Once Upon a Time (Robert Heath)
Jennifer 8 (Bruce Robinson)
The Match Factory Girl (Aki Kaurismäki)
Painting the Town (Andrew Behar)
Passenger 57 (Kevin Hooks)
The Quarrel (Eli Cohen)
Week of 30 Oct
Close to Eden (Nikita Mikhalkov)A Day in October (Kenneth Madsen)
The Lover (Jean-Jacques Annaud)
My New Gun (Stacy Cochran)
Rampage (William Friedkin)
Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)
Venice/Venice (Henry Jaglom)
Waterland (Stephen Gyllenhaal)
Week of 23 Oct
Dr. Giggles (Manny Coto)Frozen Assets (George Miller)
In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell)
Interpretation of Dreams (Andrei Zagdansky)
The Panama Deception (Barbara Trent)
The Professional (Osamu Dezaki) [1983]
Pure Country (Christopher Cain)
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino)
The Whole Truth (Dan Cohen & Jonathan Smythe)
Zebrahead (Anthony Drazan)
Week of 16 Oct
American Fabulous (Reno Dakota)Candyman (Bernard Rose)
Consenting Adults (Alan J. Pakula)
Deadly Currents (Simcha Jacobovici)
Night and the City (Irwin Winkler)
The Public Eye (Howard Franklin)
Simple Men (Hal Hartley)
South Central (Steve Anderson)
Week of 9 Oct
Alberto Express (Arthur Joff´)Breaking the Rules (Neal Israel)
Feed (Kevin Rafferty & James Ridgeway)
1492: Conquest of Paradise (Ridley Scott)
Johnny Stecchino (Roberto Benigni)
A River Runs Through It (Robert Redford)
Under Siege (Andrew Davis)
Week of 2 Oct
Double Edge (Amos Kollek)A Fine Romance (Gene Saks)
Glengarry Glen Ross (James Foley)
Hero (Stephen Frears)
The Mighty Ducks (Stephen Herek)
Mr. Baseball (Fred Schepisi)
Of Mice and Men (Gary Sinise)
Week of 25 Sep
Danzón (Maria Novaro)Innocent Blood (John Landis)
The Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann)
Mr. Saturday Night (Billy Crystal)
The Refrigerator (Nicholas A.E. Jacobs)
Together Alone (P.J. Castellaneta)
Week of 18 Sep
Captain Ron (Thom Eberhardt)Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Jumpin at the Boneyard (Jeff Stanzler)
Sarafina! (Darrell James Roodt)
School Ties (Robert Mandel)
Singles (Cameron Crowe)
Week of 11 Sep
Brother's Keeper (Joe Berlinger & Bruce Sinofsky)Crossing the Bridge (Mike Binder)
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (Anthony Hickox)
John Lurie And The Lounge Lizards Live in Berlin 1991 (Garret Linn)
The Man Without a World (Eleanor Antin)
Sneakers (Phil Alden Robinson)
Swoon (Tom Kalin)
Where the Day Takes You (Marc Rocco)
Wind (Carroll Ballard)
Week of 4 Sep
Bob Roberts (Tim Robbins)Limite (Mario Peixoto) [1931]
Out on a Limb (Francis Veber)
The Tune (Bill Plympton)
Woman Demon Human (Huang Shuqin) [1987]
Week of 28 Aug
Freddie as F.R.O.7. (Jon Acevski)Honeymoon in Vegas (Andrew Bergman)
Laws of Gravity (Nick Gomez)
Pet Sematary Two (Mary Lambert)
Storyville (Mark Frost)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch)
Wild Wheels (Harrod Blank)
Week of 21 Aug
A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris)Christopher Columbus—The Discovery (John Glen)
Clearcut (Richard Bugajski)
Light Sleeper (Paul Schrader)
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (Masami Hata & William Hurtz) [1989]
The Ox (Sven Nykvist)
Rapid Fire (Dwight H. Little)
Wax, or The Discovery of Television Among the Bees (David Blair)
Week of 14 Aug
Cup Final (Eran Riklis)Diggstown (Michael Ritchie)
Johnny Suede (Tom DiCillo)
La Discrète (Christian Vincent)
The Living End (Gregg Araki)
Single White Female (Barbet Schroeder)
Stay Tuned (Peter Hyams)
Week of 7 Aug
Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance vs. Judas Priest (David Van Taylor)London Kills Me (Hanif Kureishi)
Mistress (Barry Primus)
No Fear, No Die (Claire Denis)
Raising Cain (Brian De Palma)
3 Ninjas (Jon Turteltaub)
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood)
Whispers in the Dark (Christopher Crowe)
Week of 31 Jul
Bebe's Kids (Bruce Smith)Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fran Rubel Kuzui)
Death Becomes Her (Robert Zemeckis)
Deep Blues (Robert Mugge)
En toute innocence (Alain Jessua) [1988]
Enchanted April (Mike Newell)
Father (John Power)
Gas Food Lodging (Allison Anders)
Week of 24 Jul
Afraid of the Dark (Mark Peploe)Mo' Money (Peter Macdonald)
Mom and Dad Save the World (Greg Beeman)
Week of 17 Jul
Echoes From a Sombre Empire (Werner Herzog)Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (Randal Kleiser)
Man Trouble (Bob Rafelson)
One False Move (Carl Franklin)
A Stranger Among Us (Sidney Lumet)
Tale of Springtime (Eric Rohmer)
Week of 10 Jul
The Best Intentions (Bille August)Cool World (Ralph Bakshi)
Prelude to a Kiss (Norman René)
Save and Protect (Aleksandr Sokurov) [1989]
Universal Soldier (Roland Emmerich)
Week of 3 Jul
Blast 'Em (Joseph Blasioli & Egidio Coccimiglio)Boomerang (Reginald Hudlin)
The Castle of Cagliostro (Hayao Miyazaki) [1979]
A League of Their Own (Penny Marshall)
Week of 26 Jun
Branford Marsalis: The Music Tells You (Chris Hegedus & D.A. Pennebaker)L'Élégant Criminel (Francis Girod)
Satan (Viktor Aristov)
Unlawful Entry (Jonathan Kaplan)
Week of 19 Jun
Batman Returns (Tim Burton)The Hairdresser's Husband (Patrice Leconte)
The Inland Sea (Lucille Carra)
Life on the Edge (Andrew Yates)
Texas Tenor: The Illinois Jacquet Story (Arthur Elgort)
Week of 12 Jun
Aces: Iron Eagle III (John Glen)HouseSitter (Frank Oz)
Week of 5 Jun
Beautiful Dreamers (John Kent Harrison)Class Act (Randall Miller)
The Famine Within (Katherine Gilday)
For Sasha (Alexandre Arcady)
Monster in a Box (Nick Broomfield)
Patriot Games (Phillip Noyce)
Wisecracks (Gail Singer)
Week of 29 May
The Adjuster (Atom Egoyan)Cold Heaven (Nicolas Roeg)
Cousin Bobby (Jonathan Demme)
Diary of a Hitman (Roy London)
Pepi, Luci, Bom (Pedro Almodóvar) [1980]
Pictures From a Revolution (Susan Meiselas & Richard P. Rogers & Alfred Guzzetti)
The Silk Road (Junya Sato)
Sister Act (Emile Ardolino)
Week of 22 May
Alien³ (David Fincher)The Enchantment (Shunichi Nagasaki) [1989]
Encino Man (Les Mayfield)
Far and Away (Ron Howard)
Frida Kahlo: A Ribbon Around a Bomb (Ken Mandel)
Once Upon a Time in China (Tsui Hark)
The Stranger (Satyajit Ray)
Zentropa (Lars von Trier)
Week of 15 May
Cabeza de Vaca (Nicolás Echevarría)The Good Woman of Bangkok (Dennis O'Rourke)
Johanna d'Arc of Mongolia (Ulrike Ottinger) [1989]
Lethal Weapon 3 (Richard Donner)
The Waterdance (Neal Jimenez & Michael Steinberg)
Week of 8 May
Adam's Rib (Vyacheslav Krishtofovitch)Caroline Leaf: An Animated Life (Caroline Leaf)
CrissCross (Chris Menges)
The Favor, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish (Ben Lewin)
Incident at Oglala (Michael Apted)
November Days (Marcel Ophüls)
Poison Ivy (Katt Shea Ruben)
Wild Orchid 2: Two Shades of Blue (Zalman King)
Week of 1 May
All the Vermeers in New York (Jon Jost)Folks! (Ted Kotcheff)
Just Like in the Movies (Mark Halliday & Bram Towbin)
K2 (Franc Roddam)
Leaving Normal (Edward Zwick)
The Linguini Incident (Richard Shepard)
Night on Earth (Jim Jarmusch)
Raspad (Mikhail Belikov)
Split Second (Tony Maylam)
Who Shot Patakango? (Robert Brooks)
A Woman's Tale (Paul Cox)
Week of 24 Apr
Brenda Starr (Robert Ellis Miller)Cold Moon (Patrick Bouchitey)
Company Business (Nicholas Meyer)
Highway 61 (Bruce McDonald)
Little Noises (Jane Spencer)
A Midnight Clear (Keith Gordon)
Passed Away (Charlie Peters)
The Playboys (Gillies MacKinnon)
Tetsuo: The Iron Man (Shinya Tsukamoto) [1989]
White Sands (Roger Donaldson)
Year of the Comet (Peter Yates)
Week of 17 Apr
The Babe (Arthur Hiller)Brain Donors (Dennis Dugan)
The Branches of the Tree (Satyajit Ray)
City of Joy (Roland Joffé)
Deep Cover (Bill Duke)
Liquid Dreams (Mark Manos)
Window Shopping (Chantal Akerman) [1986]
Week of 10 Apr
Complex World (James Wolpaw)FernGully: The Last Rainforest (Bill Kroyer)
The Hours and Times (Christopher Münch)
In the Shadow of the Stars (Irving Saraf & Allie Light)
Mindwalk (Bernt Capra)
Newsies (Kenny Ortega)
The Player (Robert Altman)
Rock Soup (Lech Kowalski)
Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (Mick Garris)
Week of 3 Apr
Beethoven (Brian Levant)Rock-A-Doodle (Don Bluth)
Steal America (Lucy Phillips)
Straight Talk (Barnet Kellman)
Thunderheart (Michael Apted)
Week of 27 Mar
Alex (Teresa Villaverde)The Cutting Edge (Paul M. Glaser)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna) [1970]
Ladybugs (Sidney J. Furie)
Lovers (Vicente Aranda)
The Power of One (John G. Avildsen)
The Puerto Rican Mambo (Not a Musical) (Ben Model)
Roadside Prophets (Abbe Wool)
Ruby (John Mackenzie)
White Men Can't Jump (Ron Shelton)
Week of 20 Mar
American Dream (Barbara Kopple)Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven)
Edward II (Derek Jarman)
Memoirs of a River (Judit Elek)
Noises Off (Peter Bogdanovich)
Proof (Jocelyn Moorhouse)
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou)
Shadows and Fog (Woody Allen)
The Traffic Jam (Mitsuo Kurotsuchi)
Voices From the Front (Robyn Hutt & Sandra Elgear & David Meieran)
Week of 13 Mar
American Me (Edward James Olmos)Article 99 (Howard Deutch)
Final Approach (Eric Steven Stahl)
Howards End (James Ivory)
My Cousin Vinny (Jonathan Lynn)
Shakes the Clown (Bobcat Goldthwait)
Shaking the Tree (Duane Clark)
Week of 6 Mar
Blame It on the Bellboy (Mark Herman)Gladiator (Rowdy Herrington)
The Lawnmower Man (Brett Leonard)
Once Upon a Crime (Eugene Levy)
Toto le h´ros (Jaco van Dormael)
The Winter in Lisbon (José A. Zorrilla)
Week of 28 Feb
Amazon (Mika Kaurismäki)Gate II (Tibor Takács)
The Mambo Kings (Arne Glimcher)
Memoirs of an Invisible Man (John Carpenter)
Paper Mask (Christopher Morahan)
Under Suspicion (Simon Moore)
Where Angels Fear to Tread (Charles Sturridge)
Week of 21 Feb
Close My Eyes (Stephen Poliakoff)Falling From Grace (John Mellencamp)
Radio Flyer (Richard Donner)
Stop! or My Mom Will Shoot (Roger Spottiswoode)
Step Across the Border (Nicolas Humbert & Werner Penzel)
This Is My Life (Nora Ephron)
Week of 14 Feb
Romeo & Julia (Kevin Kaufman)Secret Friends (Dennis Potter)
Wayne's World (Penelope Spheeris)
Week of 7 Feb
Final Analysis (Phil Joanou)The Lunatic (Lol Creme)
Medicine Man (John McTiernan)
Mississippi Masala (Mira Nair)
The Restless Conscience (Hava Kohav Beller)
Week of 31 Jan
Alan and Naomi (Sterling Van Wagenen)Color Adjustment (Marlon T. Riggs)
Guilty as Charged (Sam Irvin)
Hard Promises (Martin Davidson)
Into the Sun (Fritz Kiersch)
Shining Through (David Seltzer)
Thank You and Goodnight! (Jan Oxenberg)
Voyager (Volker Schlöndorff)
Week of 24 Jan
Hear My Song (Peter Chelsom)In the Heat of Passion (Rodman Flender)
Love Crimes (Lizzie Borden)
There's Nothing Out There (Rolfe Kanefsky)
Week of 17 Jan
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash)Freejack (Geoff Murphy)
Juice (Ernest R. Dickerson)
35 Up (Michael Apted)
Week of 10 Jan
The End of Old Times (Jirí Menzel) [1989]The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Curtis Hanson)
Kuffs (Bruce A. Evans)
Life on a String (Chen Kaige)
Week of 3 Jan
Born to Ski (Don Brolin)The Station (Sergio Rubini)
Tribulation 99: Alien Anomalies Under America (Craig Baldwin)