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The General
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Monday July 7, 2008 (6pm)
Wednesday July 9, 2008 (8pm)
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$10
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Note: Ben Model provides live piano/organ accompaniment. These screenings are part of MoMA's Dalí: Painting and Film.
In his early art criticism, Salvador Dalí extolled the great silent comedians — Chaplin, Keaton, Lloyd, and the lesser-known Harry Langdon — for their surrealist sensibilities in performance. The earnest, stone-faced Keaton was Dalí's favorite of the four. Particularly in his masterpiece The General, Keaton embodied the painter's belief in tireless invention and technical resourcefulness, as he pursues the Union goons who stole both his train (the titular General) and his bride-to-be. The evening opens with Alma DeLuce's silent short, Salvador Dalí: Home Movie, which glimpses the artist in Chaplinesque pantomime.
