Film
Salvador Dalí: Home Movie and The General
- When
Monday July 7 (6pm)
Wednesday July 9 (8pm)
- Where
- MoMA (11 W 53rd St, 212.708.9400)
- Price
- $10
- Details
- http://www.moma.org/calendar/films.php?id=9427&ref=calendar
- 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. – Jason Jude Chan
