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"Can't quit this field, huh? Doesn't wanna stop playing..." Music Box Films has revealed an official trailer for Eephus, an indie baseball movie made by filmmaker Carson Lund as his feature directorial debut. It premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival in the Directors' Fortnight section last year - and will be out to watch in March. This wonderful, one-of-a-kind story of old timers playing ball is unlike any baseball movie you've ever seen before. As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved baseball field, two New England recreational teams play ball for the last time. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players chat, laugh, and squabble as they face the uncertainty of a new era. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who's ever lamented their community slipping away. Starring Keith William Richards, Cliff Blake, Ray Hryb, Stephen Radochia, David Pridemore, Pete Minkarah, David Torres Jr., Wayne Diamond, with Frederick Wiseman, and Bill "Spaceman" Lee. An ode to sports, community, and the passage of time. I'm a huge fan of this film, it's fantastic in so many ways (my review). A must see when it opens this March.

Here's the official trailer (+ poster) for Carson Lund's film Eephus, direct from YouTube:

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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 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 up for one final game at their beloved Soldier's Field, with girlfriends, kids, and local hooligans as intermittent spectators. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Eephus is directed by American indie filmmaker Carson Lund, making his feature directorial debut after cinematography work previously. The screenplay is written by Michael Basta, Nate Fisher & Carson Lund. Produced by Michael Basta, David Entin, Carson Lund & Tyler Taormina. This initially premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival last year in the Directors' Fortnight sidebar (read our review). Music Box Films will debut Lund's Eephus film in select US theaters starting March 7th, 2025 coming soon. For more info, visit their official site. Want to watch?
How does one cope with entering their own seventh-inning stretch in life — AKA middle age? According to cinematographer Carson Lund‘s directorial debut “Eephus,” it’s best to leave it all on the baseball field.

“Eephus,” which debuted in the 2024 Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes, centers on a final game at a small Massachusetts baseball field before its demolition in the 1990s. The recreational league of players cling to their passions and friendships, despite the impending end of an era.

Legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman plays a radio announcer in the film, and real-life Boston Red Sox pitcher Bill “Spaceman” Lee has a cameo. “Uncut Gems” actors Keith William Richards and Wayne Diamond star, as well as Cliff Blake, Ray Hryb, Stephen Radochia, David Pridemore, Pete Minkarah, and David Torres Jr. Lund cowrote the script with Michael Basta and Nate Fisher.

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Lund shared in a press statement that he crafted “Eephus” in the “great cinematic tradition of ‘hangout’ films that celebrate the humanistic and experiential dimensions of the sport of baseball rather than the minutiae of the game itself.” He cited features like Robert Altman’s “A Prairie Home Companion” and Howard Hawks’s “Hatari!” as tonal influences.

In addition to writing and directing “Eephus,” Lund also recently served as the director of photography on “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” Tyler Taormina’s Christmas drama that debuted at Cannes as well. Taormina also produces “Eephus,” along with Lund, Basta, and David Entin.

Both projects were produced through Omnes Films, a Los Angeles-based filmmaking collective that describes itself as committed to making “passionate, ambitious works made by friends that favor atmosphere over plot and study the many forms of cultural decay in the 21st century.”

The film was a Critic’s Pick at IndieWire, with the review citing how the feature unfolds with the “rhythm of a baseball game” itself.

“Exposition comes out in brief two-sentence exchanges between pitches and longer asides between innings, allowing audiences to experience the game with the same cadence that the players do,” the review reads. “Almost too big to even be considered an ensemble film, ‘Eephus’ plays out like a vast tableau of the way this recreational league has shaped multiple generations of men. Lund introduces us to two dozen players of varying ages and ethnicities spread across the two teams, but none of the individual characters are particularly memorable on their own terms. That’s not an indictment of anyone’s writing or acting, but a reality necessitated by the film’s larger point: These men are only showing us the parts of themselves that they bring to the field, and years of playing baseball together has shaped their little platoon into a coherent social organism with its own language, jokes, and rules of both the spoken and unspoken varieties. […] That’s why the loss of this specific baseball league on this specific field feels so profoundly tragic to everyone. More than just giving up a favorite hobby, each man is saying goodbye to a version of himself that only exists in one context.”

“Eephus” will premiere at Film at Lincoln Center and the IFC Center in New York on March 7 and limited Los Angeles theaters on March 14, with a national rollout to follow from Music Box. Check out the trailer below.

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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. As day turns to night and innings bleed together, the players face the uncertainty of a new era. Lovingly laid in a vanished Massachusetts of the mid-1990s, Carson Lund’s poignant feature debut plays like a lazy afternoon, perfectly attuned to the rhythms of America’s eternal pastime. Named for a rarely-deployed curveball, Eephus is both a ribald comedy for the baseball connoisseur and a movie for anyone who’s ever lamented their community slipping away.
It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball in October. Even as America’s signature “national pastime” has taken a backseat to football and basketball in recent years, the end of the marathon regular season and the start of the playoffs still induce a twinge of nostalgic passion in even the most cynical sports fan. With the MLB Wild Card series beginning this week, it’s fitting that Music Box Films has announced a release date for “Eephus,” Carson Lund’s baseball drama that charmed Cannes when it debuted in the 2024 Directors’ Fortnight.

IndieWire can exclusively reveal that “Eephus” will open at Film at Lincoln Center and the IFC Center on March 7, 2025, with a national rollout to follow. That means that New York cinephiles will have a chance to watch the film during Spring Training, and audiences across the country will be able to catch the expansion just as the regular season is beginning.

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“Eephus” follows a group of middle-aged Massachusetts men who have spent decades playing in a recreational baseball league together over the course of their final game before their field is torn down to build a school. As the afternoon unfolds, each member of the ensemble has to find his own way of making peace with the inevitability of change.

The film features a rare acting performance from legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who lends his voice as a radio announcer during the film’s opening scene.

In addition to writing and directing “Eephus,” Lund also serves as director of photography on “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” Tyler Taormina’s slice-of-life Christmas drama that also debuted at Cannes. Both projects were produced through Omnes Films, a Los Angeles-based filmmaking collective that describes itself as committed to making “passionate, ambitious works made by friends that favor atmosphere over plot and study the many forms of cultural decay in the 21st century.”

Prior to its theatrical release, “Eephus” will make its U.S. premiere at the New York Film Festival this week.
Eephus
Directed by Carson Lund
Screenplay by
Michael Basta
Nate Fisher
Carson Lund
Produced by
Michael Basta
David Entin
Tyler Taormina
Gabe Klinger
Starring
Keith William Richards
Frederick Wiseman
Cliff Blake
Ray Hryb
Bill "Spaceman" Lee
Cinematography Greg Tango
Edited by Carson Lund
Music by
Carson Lund
Erik Lund
Production
companies
Omnes Films
Nord-Ouest Films
Through The Lens Entertainment
Distributed by Music Box Films
Release dates
9 January 2024 (Cannes)
7 March 2025 (United States[1])
Running time 98 minutes
Countries
France
United States
Language English
Eephus is a 2024 sports film directed by Carson Lund about the final game of an amateur New England baseball league before their stadium is demolished. The film premiered in the Directors' Fortnight section of the 77th Cannes Film Festival, where it was eligible for the Caméra d'Or award. The film stars Keith William Richards in his first lead role.

Premise
In a small Massachusetts town in the 1990s, the Adler's Paint baseball team, led by Ed Mortainian, face the Riverdogs, led by Graham Morris, in one last game before their stadium is demolished to make room for a new school.[2][3]

Cast
Keith William Richards as Ed Mortanian
Frederick Wiseman as Branch Moreland
Cliff Blake as Franny
Ray Hryb as Rich Cole
Bill "Spaceman" Lee as Lee
Stephen Radochia as Graham Morris
David Pridemore as Troy Carnahan
Keith Poulson as Derek Dicapua
John R Smith Jnr. as John Faiella
Pete Minkarah as Glen Murray
Wayne Diamond as Al
Theodore Bouloukos as Chuck Poleen
Joe Castiglione as Mr. Mallinari
Russell J. Gannon as Bill Belinda
David Torres Jr. as Dilberto D. Torres
Nate Fisher as Merritt Nettles
Chris Goodwin as Garrett Furnivall
Conner Marx as Cooper Bassett
Brendan "Crash" Burt as Bobby Crompton
Tim Taylor as Kevin Santucci
Ethan Ward as Tim Bassett
Jeff Saint Dic as Preston Red
Patrick Garrigan as Logan Evans
Ari Brisbon as Wilton Palacios
Johnny Tirado as Adrian Costa
Joe Penczak as Louis
Paul Kandarian as Clark
Isabelle Charlot as Melanie
Lou Basta as Howie
Timber Holmes as Linda Belinda
Annie Tisdale as Julie Belinda
Production
Eephus was filmed on location at Soldiers Field in Douglas, Massachusetts. While the film's story centers on this real-life baseball field, the plot concerning the demolition of the field and the construction of a school was fictional. Lund cited Goodbye, Dragon Inn as an influence on the film's story.[4]

Lund co-wrote the screenplay for Eephus with Michael Basta and Nate Fisher. Due to his experience as a director of photography, Lund had hoped to serve as cinematographer on the film, but chose Greg Tango for the role when this proved impractical.[4]

Release
Eephus world-premiered on May 9, 2024 in the Director's Fortnight section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.[2][5] The film also screened at Filmfest München on June 30, 2024,[6] and was selected for the Meeting Point section of the 69th Valladolid International Film Festival.[7]

The film made its North American premiere in the Main Slate of the 62nd New York Film Festival on October 2, 2024.[8][9] It will also screen at AFI Fest on October 25, 2024.[10][11] It is scheduled to be released in the United States on March 7, 2025.[1]

Reception
Critical reception
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 22 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10.[12] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 80 out of 100, based on 8 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[13]

In a review for IndieWire, critic Christian Zilko praised how Eephus approached social relationships between men. He lauded the filmmakers' choice to make a school the cause of the stadium's demolition, arguing this decision takes the focus off of a potential villain eroding social space and keeps the emphasis on the passage of time.[3] Echoing these sentiments, Jessica Kiang of Variety characterized Eephus as an "adorably existential, off-kilter take on the sports movie."[2]

Accolades
Award Ceremony date Category Recipient Result Ref.
Cannes Film Festival May 25, 2024 Camera d'Or Eephus Nominated [14][15]
Filmfest München July 6, 2024 Cinevision Competition Nominated [6]
Silk Road International Film Festival [zh] September 25, 2024 Best Screenplay Michael Basta, Nate Fisher, Carson Lund Won [16]
See also
Eephus pitch, the baseball pitch from which the film takes its name
References
Zilko, Christian (2024-10-02). "Cannes Baseball Hit 'Eephus' Sets March 2025 Release Date from Music Box Films". IndieWire. Retrieved October 2, 2024.
Kiang, Jessica (2024-05-21). "'Eephus' Review: A Wry and Lovely Baseball Movie That Pitches Slowballs of Quiet Wisdom". Variety. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
Zilko, Christian (2024-05-19). "'Eephus' Review: Not Even Beer League Baseball Is Spared the Cruel Passage of Time". IndieWire. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
Goi, Leonardo (2024-05-19). ""I've Always Been Interested in Making My Own Version of Goodbye Dragon Inn: Director Carson Lund on His Cannes-Premiering Eephus". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
Galuppo, Mia (2024-05-16). "Cannes Hidden Gem: Elegiac 'Eephus' Captures the "Meditative" Quality of Baseball". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
"Eephus". Filmfest München. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
Liébana, Nerea (2024-09-11). "Meeting Point: unique cinema, pure cinema". SEMINCI. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
"62nd New York Film Festival Main Slate Announced". Film at Lincoln Center. 2024-08-06. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
"Eephus". Film at Lincoln Center. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
Olsen, Mark (2024-10-01). "AFI Fest brings the best from other festivals to L.A. film fans". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
"EEPHUS". AFI FEST. Retrieved 2024-10-02.
"Eephus". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
"Eephus". Metacritic. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
"Eephus". Quinzaine des cinéastes. Retrieved 6 August 2024.
"The 2024 Caméra d'or: who are the contenders?". Cinéma de Demain. 2024-05-08. Retrieved 2024-10-01.
"第十一屆絲綢之路國際電影節閉幕 張藝謀獲「電影藝術終身成就獎」". Wen Wei Po (in Chinese). Retrieved 2024-10-01.
External links
Eephus at IMDb
Categories: 2024 films2020s American films2020s sports drama films2020s French filmsFilms set in MassachusettsFilms set in the 1990sAmerican baseball filmsFilms shot in Massachusetts
Yogi Berra, perhaps the greatest catcher in history, is quoted in Carson Lund‘s “Eephus,” a movie about players who, unlike Berra, are never going to trouble the Baseball Hall of Fame’s induction committee. To homage so lofty a legend in so humble a film is a pretty big swing. But one likes to think Berra would be tickled by the shout-out in this lovely little sundowner movie, during which a bunch of middle-aged casual players use the excuse of the last game of their season — and perhaps ever — to valiantly fight the dying of the light. After all, wasn’t he the guy who coined “The future ain’t what it used to be”?

The future sure looks different, suddenly, for the Adler’s Paint and Riverdogs adult-league teams who have played regularly at Soldier’s Field, the public pitch serving their small New England town, for years. This late October game will be the last they can hold here, as the grounds are due for imminent demolition. In another, more obvious movie, this would introduce a bad guy, some faceless corporation that wants to build luxury apartments or a big-box store on the site. But the rueful generosity of Lund and co-writers Michael Basta and Nate Fisher’s approach means that here, they’re not paving paradise to put up a parking lot. Instead, the pitch is being razed to build a school, something none of these midlife men can really complain about, even if some of them mutter mutinously under their breath.

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Their future, it should also be pointed out, is our past: Lund sets the film in a throwback version of the ’90s where the players drive pickups and station wagons, and the signage is all hand-painted. One has a Plymouth with a push-button radio, on which hilarious spoofs of local advertising play, commercials where the business owner himself does the hard sell with all the flat, strained enthusiasm of the non-media-trained. Also on the radio: an announcer voiced by documentary maven Frederick Wiseman who, alongside Bill “Spaceman” Lee, the famous left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in the ’70s, gives the film its two starriest cameos, in among a deep bench of indie character actors. Some faces might be vaguely familiar, but not so much it ever distracts from the choral chemistry within the ensemble.

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Observed only by a smattering of family members, one ancient fan, an avid scorekeeper called Franny (Cliff Blake, perfectly channeling later-life Jack Lemmon) and a couple of teens deeply unimpressed by the league’s amateur status (“They’re just, like, plumbers and shit,”) one by one, the men step up to the plate. But we’re not here to watch the game any more than they’re really here to play it. The minimal action of “Eephus” is contained in the dugout chatter, the banter in the outfield, the beer cans multiplying in the grass, the bright sky slowly darkening, the tempers that get lost and found. Church bells chime and commuter trains shunt by, and as day turns to night, there are no narrative fireworks here. Even when there are literal fireworks, Greg Tango’s camera is pointed, with sweetly perverse affection, away from them, at the empty dugout as it’s briefly illuminated by the offscreen sparklers and rockets.

Very loosely, the cast is led by ornery pitcher Ed (Keith William Richards), who has to step up when the Adler’s Paint captain abruptly leaves for a christening, and his opposite number, Graham (Stephen Radochia), the Riverdogs coach whose endless prolonging of the game is especially pointed, as he’s involved in the Soldier’s Field demolition scheme. But “Eephus” (a term for an unexpectedly slow curveball with plenty of deceptive topspin so that, as one benched baseball-philosopher alleges, it seems like it’s hovering in midair) is not about rivalry nearly as much as it’s about companionship. It’s about using the Great American Pastime as a way to postpone the passage of time, and as an excuse for a togetherness these men clearly crave but that American masculinity discourages them from articulating in any other way.

Lund was DP on Directors’ Fortnight stablemate “Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point,” just as that film’s director, Tyler Taormina, appears here as producer. Together they and their Omnes Films shingle are softly spearheading an unassuming new nostalgia movement in American indie cinema, which is unashamedly sentimental without being soppy and deeply, almost surreally sincere in its observation of the arcane rituals that underlie so much of American social life. And here we have maybe the best expression yet of this New Suburban Quiet, even — and maybe especially — for those of us with little prior investment in the sport. Its pearls of practical wisdom and jewels of melancholic wit make “Eephus” a gem, which is fitting, for a movie about a game played on a diamond.

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Données clés
Titre original Eephus
Réalisation Carson Lund
Scénario Carson Lund
Michael Basta
Nate Fisher
Acteurs principaux
Keith Richards
Frederick Wiseman
Bill Lee

Pays de production Drapeau des États-Unis États-Unis
Genre Drame
Durée 98 minutes
Sortie 2024
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Eephus, le dernier tour de piste est un film dramatique américain réalisé par Carson Lund et sorti en 20241,2.

Le titre fait référence au lancer Eephus, plusieurs fois évoqué dans le film.

Synopsis
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Dans les années 1990, des joueurs amateurs du Massachusetts jouent leur dernier match de baseball avant la disparition du terrain qui doit être utilisé pour la construction d'un nouvel établissement scolaire.

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Titre original : Eephus
Réalisation : Carson Lund
Scénario : Carson Lund, Michael Basta et Nate Fisher
Musique : Jonathan Davies
Décors : Eddie Averill
Costumes : Erik Lund
Photographie : Greg Tango
Son : Michael Basta et Carson Lund
Montage : Carson Lund
Production : Michael Basta, David Entin, Carson Lund et Tyler Taormina
Coproduction : Ola Byszuk, Gabe Klinger, Michael Richter et Kyle Stroud
Production déléguée : Jim Christman, Brian Clark, Ashish Shetty et Michael Tonelli
Production associée : Tim Bonin, Kevin Fisher, Steve Galbraith, Krista Minto et David Sabot
Assistant de production : Kaila Reed et Oliver Toy
Sociétés de production : A Major Production, ColdFeet Films, Through the Lens Entertainment, Nord-Ouest Films et Omnes Films
Sociétés de distribution : Capricci Films
Pays de production : Drapeau des États-Unis États-Unis
Langue originale : anglais
Format : couleur
Genre : Drame
Durée : 98 minutes
Dates de sortie :
France : 19 mai 2024 (Festival de Cannes) ; 1er janvier 2025 (sortie nationale)
États-Unis : 2 octobre 2024 (New York) ; 7 mars 2025 (sortie nationale)
Canada : 5 octobre 2024 (Vancouver)
Distribution
Keith William Richards : Ed Mortanian
Bill Lee : Lee
Cliff Blake : Franny
Keith Poulson : Derek DiCapua
Conner Marx : Cooper Bassett
Theodore Bouloukos : Chuck Poleen
Conner Marx : Cooper Bassett
Jeff Saint-Dic : Preston Red
Paul Kandarian : Clark
Stephen Radochia : Graham Morris
Kate Fischer : Merritt Nettles
Joe Castiglione (en) : Mr. Mallinari
Frederick Wiseman : Branch Moreland (voix à la radio)
Wayne Diamond (en)
Notes et références
« Eephus [archive] », sur Quinzaine des cinéastes (consulté le 26 décembre 2024)
Olivier Lamm, « Cannes 2024 : Eephus, c'est de la balle », Libération,‎ 19 mai 2024 (lire en ligne [archive], consulté le 26 décembre 2024)
Liens externes
Ressources relatives à l'audiovisuel : AllocinéIMDbThe Movie Database
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Catégories : Film américain sorti en 2024Film dramatique américainFilm sur le baseballFilm se déroulant dans les années 1990Film se déroulant au MassachusettsFilm tourné au Massachusetts