Southampton - "Wendy and Lucy," an independent film directed by Kelly Reichardt and starring Michelle Williams, will open the Parrish's fall film series New Global Cinema: When Things Go Wrong on Friday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. Selected by guest curator John K. Turnbull, the three recent films from the United States, Italy, and Russia explore the ways people confront - or avoid - crises and upheavals in their lives.

Academy Award-nominated actress Williams ("Brokeback Mountain") plays Wendy Carroll, a young woman driving to Alaska in hopes of a summer of lucrative work at a fish cannery and the start of a new life with her dog Lucy. When her car breaks down in an Oregon town, her plans are shattered as she confronts a series of increasingly dire economic dilemmas.

Reichardt's previous films include the features "Old Joy" and "River of Grass," both of which were honored at such film festivals as Sundance, Rotterdam, and Sarasota and by both the Los Angeles and Toronto Film Critics Associations.

Admission to the film is $5 for Parrish members, $7 for non-members. Subsequent programs are "Days and Clouds," an Italian film from 2007 that deals with a well-to-do family's financial crisis, and "The Return," a Russian film in which two boys deal with their father's return home after an unexplained 12-year absence. "Days and Clouds" will screen October 23, "The Return" on October 30.

The Museum's programs are made possible, in part, with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, at state agency.