The Best Old Movies on a Big Screen This Week: NYC Repertory Cinema Picks, June 8-14
92 in the Shade (1975)
Directed by Thomas McGuane
The term “hangout movie” means something different every time someone uses it, but there’s a fair chance 92 In The Shade checks every box. It’s the sunburned b-side to Night Moves, one that usually can’t pick up a gun because of the Miller High Life clutched in its mitts. Guns do eventually get drawn in the feud between rival merchant boat captains Peter Fonda and Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton, but they don’t seem that big a threat to the aimless good vibes. Death is everywhere but like the Key West beach bums it stalks, it takes its time doing much of anything. Novelist Thomas McGuane (who also scripted laid-back should-be-classics like Rancho Deluxe and Missouri Breaks) directed for the only time, and kicks up his heels with his oddball antiheroes, enjoying the sound of their petty if ultimately amicable bickering. Margot Kidder, Burgess Meredith, Joe Spinell, Silvia Miles, Elizabeth Ashley and William Hickey round out this most 70s of casts, swimming around Fonda and Oates like a school of poisonous fish. Scout Tafoya (June 9, 9:30pm at the Nitehawk; check for last-minute rush tickets)