Eephus

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  • Monday, Mar 31

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  • Thursday, Apr 3

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Eephus

Two recreational baseball teams, the River Dogs and Adler’s Paint, have been meeting on their New England field on Sunday afternoons for longer than anyone can remember. These middle-aged sportsmen can’t run as fast as they used to or connect as reliably with a pitch, but their vigorous appetite for socializing, squabbling, and busting chops remains undiminished. After the know-nothing county board opts to raze the baseball diamond to make way for a school, the teams meet for one final game at their beloved Soldier’s Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators.

Monica Castillo, JBFC Senior Film Programmer writes, “Carson Lund’s feature debut Eephus is unlike any other baseball movie you’ve seen. The players aren’t kids or pros. They’ve seen their fair share of seasons, but on this day in October 1994, it will be their last game on their trusty old field. A school is slated to take over the lot, and the weekly ritual of gathering around this green diamond will come to an end. But before anyone gets too teary eyed about the times a-changin’, there’s a game to play, a team to beat, and some celebratory beer to drink with fireworks. Lund, who’s filmed other movies like Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, builds on his love of baseball, its lore, and routines to create a love letter to the sport and the end of an era, the nostalgia we feel for days gone by and the friends (and rivals) we made along the way.

In a sense, the movie Eephus, named after a complex pitch, has much more in common with Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show than it does with The Pride of the Yankees, but this is the kind of character-driven sports movie that anyone can root for and is a unique treat for the baseball fans in our audience.”

"Many a true devotee will tell you that part of the game’s charm lies in its ability to facilitate socialization... Eephus is a film that understands this, and the script shuffles along with the rhythm of a baseball game."
Christian Zilko, IndieWire
"Has about it a mournful, lightly absurd poetry of the mundane, a rapt attention to the intimacy of transience and the meanings we make from relics and rituals of a time we’re passing through."
Isaac Feldberg, RogerEbert.com

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Q&A with Director Cason Lund
Sunday, Mar. 9 2025, 6:00
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  • Carson Lund is a founding member of Omnes Films, an independent, Los Angeles-based filmmaking collective named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Film.” Lund marks his directorial debut with Eephus, which he also wrote and produced. The film premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival’s Directors’ Fortnight and screened at the 62nd edition of the New York Film Festival in October 2024. Lund also served as cinematographer and producer of Christmas Eve at Miller's Point starring Michael Cera, which also premiered in Directors’ Fortnight. Previously, Lund lensed and produced Ham on Rye (2020)which premiered internationally at the 2019 Locarno Film Festival and received critical acclaim from The New Yorker, The Hollywood Reporter, The New York Times, and Rolling Stone. A New Hampshire native, Lund is also a musician and film critic.


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