February 17, 2025
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Movieweb: WENDY AND LUCY one of 15 Most Patriotic Movies Made in The USA



Shot in the quiet corners of Portland, Oregon, Wendy and Lucy is a road movie in which the road simply runs out. Wendy (Michelle Williams) is on her way to Alaska, chasing the kind of fresh start that only exists in theory, when her car breaks down and her dog, Lucy, disappears. Stranded and nearly out of money, she becomes stuck in a cycle of small, compounding misfortunes—losing a pet, getting caught shoplifting for food, sleeping in her car, being treated as an inconvenience by a country that values productivity over people. The landscapes Reichardt captures are not the vast, romanticized America of classic cinema, but the America of gas stations, big-box stores, empty parking lots, and the vague hostility of anywhere you don’t belong.

Patriotism in the Act of Surviving

Wendy is nobody, which is exactly why Wendy and Lucy is so necessary. It’s a story of a person slipping through the cracks, of a life that doesn’t have the safety net we pretend exists. If patriotism is about valuing the people who make up a nation, then Wendy’s struggle is an indictment of what happens when that promise fails. Kelly Reichardt’s direction is stripped of sentimentality, but that makes it all the more devastating—this is not a tragedy; it is simply life. But in its small, heartbreaking way, Wendy and Lucy is also about resilience, about finding kindness in strangers, about the vastness of America not as a land of opportunity, but as a place where people keep moving, keep trying, because what else is there to do?

A Glass Eye Pix production starring Michelle Williams and featuring Fessenden

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February 14, 2025
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Celebrate Valentine’s Day Weekend with Ilya Chaiken’s THE UNLOVABLES

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February 13, 2025
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TBT: GIRLFRIEND’S DAY released on Valentine’s Day 2017

February 11, 2025
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Cutting Room #265: Willem Dafoe retrospective at Anthology Film Archives, NYC

February 10, 2025
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STRAY BULLETS BTS: actors prepare

the stars of STRAY BULLETS; John Speredakos (WENDIGO, I SELL THE DEAD, CRUMB CATCHER) and James LeGros (THE LAST WINTER, BITTER FEAST, BLACKOUT), prepare for their getaway.

February 10, 2025
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On this Day 2017: Jack Fessenden’s STRAY BULLETS released

February 8, 2025
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Second Wind Dep’t: GEP pal Andrew Mer aka @bigfusss Photo Exhibit extended

From Andrew Mer, longtime Glass Eye supporter and Executive Producer on DEPRAVED

At the Steven Pinker Gallery

@bigfusss

February 7, 2025
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GEP Pal Brian Spears runs shop on COMPANION, now in Theaters.

Spears getting his hands dirty with actor John Speredakos
(CRUMB CATCHER, WENDIGO, BLACKOUT)
for Glenn McQuaid’s I SELL THE DEAD.

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February 6, 2025
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TBT: Wolfman Slacker 2002

Fessenden on the cover of The Observer Art Section promoting WENDIGO February 2002

February 4, 2025
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Cutting Room #264: A talk with Colman Domingo