#465: Late Innings, Pt. 2 — Eephus

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Carson Lund’s feature debut EEPHUS moves at the same deliberate pace as the trick pitch for which it’s named, leisurely unfolding over the course of a season-ending game between two small-town recreation leagues that’s also probably the last time many on the field will ever play. This week we’re joined again by film critic and baseball lover Tim Grierson to discuss how EEPHUS approaches that sense of finality with low-key humor and a subtle sense of nostalgia, before bringing Ron Shelton’s BULL DURHAM back on the field to compare these two films’ ideas about aging, masculinity, and America’s pastime, emphasis on the “past.” And in Your Next Picture Show we offer a recommendation for another unconventional baseball movie that offers a rarely seen perspective on the game, 2008’s SUGAR. 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. Next pairing: Bong Joon Ho’s MICKEY 17 and Paul Verhoeven’s STARSHIP TROOPERS Chapters: Intro: 00:00:00-00:01:51 Eephus discussion: 00:01:52-00:27:37 Connections: 00:27:38-1:00:12 Your Next Picture Show: 1:00:13-1:04:25 Next episode preview and goodbyes: 1:04:26-end Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.4	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
1:05.2	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being. We may be true with the past,
1:13.4	but the past is not through with us. Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie
1:22.0	the week podcast devoted to a classic film the way it shaped our thoughts on our recent release.
1:25.9	I'm Keith Phipps here again with Tasha Robinson and Genevieve Kosky. And we're once again joined by our special guest, Tim Greerson,
1:33.4	co-star the Gerson & Leach podcast, and a writer for Screen International, the Los Angeles Times,
1:37.7	and other fine publications. He's subbing in for Scott Tobias. Hi again, Tim. Hello. So in our
1:43.5	last episode, we discussed Ron Shelton's classic
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