Carson Lund

Los Angeles

Have faith in wordless knowledge. Filmmaker at @OmnesFilms, writer for @Slant_Magazine and @HFA_theatre, and musician (@MinesFalls).

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Articles

Eephus Review: Root, root, root for the home team

1 month ago | doomrocket.substack.com | Michael Basta |Nate Fisher |Carson Lund |Jarrod Jones

Carson Lund's Eephus is a tranquil, punchy, oddly wonderful film about change explored through the traditions of America's favorite pastime — bravado, bench-warming, booze, all of it. When you watch a baseball picture, you have natural expectations. You can count on at least one jockstrap yuk if it's a comedy. If it's a drama, horns will play over sepia-toned shots of the stands, home plate, and the dugout.
67 Best Baseball Movies of All Time

1 month ago | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Carson Lund |Ron Shelton |Aviva Kempner |Sam Pollard

The latest: Indie bittersweet dramedy Eephus is majorly Certified Fresh!The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. The smell of ballpark franks, and we’re not just talking of the Thomas variety.
Watchlist This! our March 2025 picks of the best new bubbling-under films • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Carson Lund |Michael Basta |Duke Johnson

Batter up, film buffs! We’ve made it through the grand slam of awards season, have slid into Northern Hemisphere spring and the umpire has officially signaled us as “SAFE”. If you’re wondering about all of these baseball metaphors, it’s not just because the new Major League Baseball season starts next week—we’re pitching an ace new film centered on the sport itself to add to your watchlists.
KL Studio Classics

Feb 5, 2025 | slantmagazine.com | Carson Lund |Derek Smith

In Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice, the distance from hope to despair is a short jump—a chasm crossed with the help of something so immediate as a television transmission. As his birthday celebration winds down on a gloomy summer evening in remote Sweden, retired intellectual Alexander (Erland Josephson) tiptoes half-drunk into his living room to find a group of friends and family bewitched by the soft blue glow of a TV set’s screen, out of which emanates an announcement of nuclear conflict.
‎2023 Favorites, a list of films by Carson Lund • Letterboxd

Jan 18, 2024 | letterboxd.com | Carson Lund

Blind Spots: About Dry Grasses, All of Us Strangers, Are You There God?
Healing Through Communion

Nov 23, 2023 | slantmagazine.com | Carson Lund

The smoke sauna practices of southern Estonia will likely be unfamiliar to most viewers entering the cloistered world of Anna Hints’s Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, and it’s to the film’s credit that any pedagogy it does offer comes only in allusive, piecemeal ways. Some research will reveal that there’s a metaphysical dimension that separates the Estonian spa tradition from that of other cultures, but Hints’s documentary is in no hurry to dispel secrets.
Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher

Oct 2, 2023 | slantmagazine.com | Carson Lund

In the opening scene of the 1957 western The Tall T, a man on horseback is spotted from afar by a boy and his father, prompting the elder homesteader to fetch his rifle. The audience shares their uncertainty, seeing this figure through a telephoto lens from a great distance, but when the stranger gets closer to the ranch, he’s recognized by the boy as an ally. It’s the film’s hero, Pat Brennan (Randolph Scott), a fellow rancher, and the gun is therefore set aside.
Love and Longing in Anachronistic Helsinki

Sep 9, 2023 | slantmagazine.com | Carson Lund

While watching Aki Kaurismäki’s films, one may become aware of how peculiarly attentive the Finnish auteur is to room tones. And his latest, Fallen Leaves, is no exception: the vacuum-sealed deadness of a prefabricated one-room apartment; the cavernous bellow of a factory, enlivened by faraway clanks and moans; the slightly reverberant calm of a bar after the activity has died down; and the humming sine waves of a hospital room.
Eephus | Comedy, Drama

Jul 11, 2023 | imdb.com | Carson Lund