“Half the time I was directing, I also had a glove on my hand,” says filmmaker Carson Lund of making his feature directorial debut with the Cannes title Eephus.
The film, which is premiering in Directors’ Fortnight and is being sold worldwide by Film Constellation, follows a men’s New England recreational baseball team as they play their final game on their longtime field before its planned demolition.
From Pride of the Yankees to Bull Durham to Moneyball, baseball has a long and varied onscreen tradition. For his part, Lund wanted to take a different approach. “No baseball film, I feel, has ever really captured the rhythms of the game and what it feels like to actually play it,” says the director. “A lot of these films are ultimately about single characters, protagonists who are undergoing some sort of transformation and self-enlightenment over the course of a narrative. It’s...
The film, which is premiering in Directors’ Fortnight and is being sold worldwide by Film Constellation, follows a men’s New England recreational baseball team as they play their final game on their longtime field before its planned demolition.
From Pride of the Yankees to Bull Durham to Moneyball, baseball has a long and varied onscreen tradition. For his part, Lund wanted to take a different approach. “No baseball film, I feel, has ever really captured the rhythms of the game and what it feels like to actually play it,” says the director. “A lot of these films are ultimately about single characters, protagonists who are undergoing some sort of transformation and self-enlightenment over the course of a narrative. It’s...
- 5/16/2024
- by Mia Galuppo
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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