{"id":621536,"date":"2024-05-21T19:21:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-a-wry-lovely-slow-ball-baseball-movie\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T19:21:48","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T16:21:48","slug":"watch-a-wry-lovely-slow-ball-baseball-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-wry-lovely-slow-ball-baseball-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch A Wry, Lovely, Slow-ball Baseball Movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f8d795f73f\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3f8d795f73f\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-wry-lovely-slow-ball-baseball-movie\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Wry_Lovely_Slow-ball_Baseball_Movie%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online A Wry, Lovely, Slow-ball Baseball Movie&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-a-wry-lovely-slow-ball-baseball-movie\/#%E2%80%9CA_Wry_Lovely_Slow-ball_Baseball_Movie%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;A Wry, Lovely, Slow-ball Baseball Movie&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_A_Wry_Lovely_Slow-ball_Baseball_Movie%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online A Wry, Lovely, Slow-ball Baseball Movie&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CA_Wry_Lovely_Slow-ball_Baseball_Movie%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;A Wry, Lovely, Slow-ball Baseball Movie&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yogi Berra, perhaps the greatest catcher in history, is quoted in Carson Lund\u2018s \u201cEephus,\u201d a movie about players who, unlike Berra, are never going to trouble the Baseball Hall of Fame\u2019s 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> of their season \u2014 and perhaps ever \u2014 to valiantly fight the dying of the light. After all, wasn\u2019t he the guy who coined \u201cThe future ain\u2019t what it used to be\u201d?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The future sure looks different, suddenly, for the Adler\u2019s Paint and Riverdogs adult-league teams who have played regularly at Soldier\u2019s 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\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach means that here, they\u2019re 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.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Their future, it should also be pointed out, is our past: Lund sets the film in a throwback version of the \u201990s 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-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>-trained. Also on the radio: an announcer voiced by documentary maven Frederick Wiseman who, alongside Bill \u201cSpaceman\u201d Lee, the famous left-handed pitcher with the Red Sox in the \u201970s, 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    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\u2019s amateur status (\u201cThey\u2019re just, like, <em>plumbers<\/em> and shit,\u201d) one by one, the men step up to the plate. But we\u2019re not here to watch the game any more than they\u2019re really here to play it. The minimal action of \u201cEephus\u201d 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\u2019s camera is pointed, with sweetly perverse affection, away from them, at the empty dugout as it\u2019s briefly illuminated by the offscreen sparklers and rockets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Very loosely, the cast is led by ornery pitcher Ed (Keith William Richards), who has to step up when the Adler\u2019s 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\u2019s involved in the Soldier\u2019s Field demolition scheme. But \u201cEephus\u201d (a term for an unexpectedly slow curveball with plenty of deceptive topspin so that, as one benched baseball-philosopher alleges, it seems like it\u2019s hovering in midair) is not about rivalry nearly as much as it\u2019s about companionship. It\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Lund was DP on Directors\u2019 Fortnight stablemate \u201cChristmas Eve in Miller\u2019s Point,\u201d just as that film\u2019s 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 \u2014 and maybe especially \u2014 for those of us with little prior investment in the sport. Its pearls of practical wisdom and jewels of melancholic wit make \u201cEephus\u201d a gem, which is fitting, for a movie about a game played on a diamond.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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