Awards & Recognition

—Golden Badger Award, Wisconsin Film Festival
—Official Selection, Driftless Film Festival

Selected Review

Booda (Tim West) is a rapper struggling to live the hip hop lifestyle and promote his new tracks while dealing with parental and spousal responsibilities; Leslie is a single mom trying to find the right way to tell her teenage son she’s quit her job. James (who is in a rock band with Leslie) is trying to juggle eating cold pasta and getting high, with getting home in time to celebrate his kid sister’s birthday.

A day in the life of these quintessential Madisonians forms the loose-limbed, shaggy dog structure of James Runde’s deliciously off-handed and self-assured first feature, Played Out. If John Cassavetes and Richard Linklater had joined forces and tried to capture the young and restless souls inhabiting Madison’s music scene, they would have been lucky to evince performances as lived-in, and atmospheres as quietly melancholic as Runde does here.

—Ben Reiser, Wisconsin Film Festival

Press

• Q&A: Filmmaker and musician James Runde is just happy to be here
  Rob Thomas | The Cap Times | 02/13/2022
• Cinematalk Podcast #3: James Runde
  Ben Reiser | UW-Cinematheque | 12/13/2019
• WI Film Festival: ‘Played Out’
  Christian Memmo | The Daily Cardinal | 04/11/2019
• Two strong local movies, ‘Pet Names’ and ‘Played Out,’ play Wisconsin Film Festival
  Rob Thomas | The Capitol Times | 04/07/2019
• Movies with heart
  Michael Muckian | The Isthmus | 04/04/2019
• Summing up Madison in an hour with James Runde’s “Played Out”
  Grant Phipps | Tone Madison | 04/01/2019
• From Then to Now: Celebrating Wisconsin Filmmakers
  Marissa Sugrue | UW–Madison Division of the Arts | 03/19/2019

Screenings

• Driftless Film Festival
  11/03/2019 | Mineral Point Opera House | Mineral Point, WI
• Thursday Night Movie Club
  10/10/2019 | Madison Public Library – Central Branch | Madison, WI
• Wisconsin Film Festival
  04/06/2019 | UW Marquee | Madison, WI