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On the Radar: Back to the Future at Sunset Cinema and Dali's sur-really freaky film, Un Chien Andalou

By Franki Weddington on Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 1:00 am

rotting animals, ants swarming around an open wound in a man's palm, and plenty of gratuitous slayings. Grapefruit is a documentary visit with the artist in his hometown of Figueres, Spain, just as the Teatro Museu Dalí opens. Sunset Cinema, Sat., May 1, gates open at 6:45 p.m., movie begins at 8:15 p.m., River Tower Park, 701 East Bird St., Tampa, free, tampatheatre.com; Dali and Beyond Film Series, 6 p.m. Thurs., May 6, Salvador Dali Museum, 1000 Third St. S., St. Petersburg, $5 admission after 5 p.m., salvadordalimuseum.org.

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Welcome to On the Radar, where we preview upcoming events to mark your calendars for. Snuggle up for a movie showing under the stars (on a giant, 50-foot inflatable screen): Saturday's Sunset Cinema selection is the oldie-but-goodie, Back to the Future. Toss a Frisbee or a football; bring a blanket or a lawn chair; nosh on Junior Mints and popcorn, or pack a picnic and a bottle of wine (though you might want to keep that one under wraps) — tonight, it’s all about viewing al fresco.

If your tastes are more avant-garde than apple pie, check out next week's installations in the Dali and Beyond Film Series: Sharing Salvador, Le Pink Grapefruit and Dalí and Buñuel's Un Chien Andalou — the surreally freaktastic montage of shocking images like a close-up of a woman's eye being sliced by a razor (pictured),