#464: Late Innings, Pt. 1 — Bull Durham

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Quietly observing as a small-town recreation league plays out their last game of the season, and likely ever, the new EEPHUS is a feature-length subversion of “the big game,” simultaneously embracing and rejecting such baseball-movie cliches in a manner that reminded us of 1988’s BULL DURHAM. We’re joined this week by pinch-hitter Tim Grierson to discuss all the ways Ron Shelton’s classic, often cited as the best baseball movie ever, throws out the sports-movie playbook, from its multiple protagonists and rom-com structure to its acknowledgment that baseball, like life, has an expiration date. And in Feedback, a frequent contributor returns with some bonus observations from our recent pairing of PRESENCE and THE OTHERS. Intro/favorite movie sports teams: 00:00:00-00:08:51 Bull Durham Keynote: 00:08:51-00:14:55 Bull Durham Discussion: 00:14:56-00:56:14 Feedback/outro: 00:56:14-end Please share your thoughts about BULL DURHAM, EEPHUS, or anything else in the world of film, by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.8	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:43.6	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:52.0	Welcome to The Next Picture Show, a movie, the week podcast, devoted to a classic film and how it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here with...
0:59.6	Genevieve Kosky. I'm Tasha Robinson. Our regular co-host, Scott Tobias, missed the team bus, and currently hitching his way through the Carolinas. He'll be back at some point. Filling up from instead is Tim Grierson, a veteran film critic, who can be read regularly
1:12.1	at Screen International, the Los Angeles Times, Fulcher, and elsewhere.
1:15.6	He's also with Will Leach, one half of the Grierson and Leach podcast.
1:19.5	Hello, Tim.
1:20.2	Hello.
1:20.7	Thank you all for having me.
1:22.0	Thanks so much for being here.
1:23.6	Yeah, this is exciting.
1:24.5	It's always interesting when we get somebody.
1:26.8	New guest.
1:32.7	Yeah. Yeah, this is exciting. It's always interesting when we get somebody... New guest. New fresh blood, by which we mean we've only known you for like decades.
1:44.0	Wait, have we hazed yet? Well, I was going to say, since we're talking about baseball movies this week and next week, it's like, I have to carry all of your bags, I'm assuming, as the rookie. And I have to take your
1:46.0	bats and I have to, like, dress up in accumulating costumes during spring training and
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