giornata, 5/15/25

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Giornata is my Thursday weekly media diary, covering whatever I read, watched, or listened to in the last week. This feature is for paid subscribers.

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Eephus (dir. Carson Lund, 2024)

The first Emma Soup of the year. A lot of the reactions to this film, which takes place in real-ish time over the course of a community baseball game, sound like how I am prone to talk about sports. Nostalgia bitten, bright eyed, emotional about masculinity and dads and bearing witness to homosocial relationships while a team is working toward a goal. I love that stuff and I totally get why Eephus hits that note for so many people.

But when I wrote about The History of the Seattle Mariners (2020, dir. Jon Bois), I got a couple of comments that I think was probably in the back of my head while watching Eephus.