Hello, Dali!

There are more movies to savor with “Surrealist Outdoor Cinema,” which the Katonah Museum of Art is presenting in conjunction with its current “Double Solitaire” show.

On July 14, it’s Terry Gilliam’s “Brazil,” about a government clerk who ends up in Kafkaesque bureaucratic hell after trying to correct a clerical error. Hailed as both brilliant and wildly uneven, the film does eerily presage the current absurd American work environment.

July 21 finds museum viewers “Spellbound” as psychiatrist Ingrid Bergman tries to figure out whether an amnesiac Gregory Peck is really a murderer. The film, one of Alfred Hitchcock’s most stylish works of the 1940s, has a key dream sequence that was designed by Salvador Dali after Giorgio de Chirico reportedly turned down the master of suspense. Also, note the haunting score by Miklos Rózsa, who in the 1950s would score such biblical epics as “Ben-Hur” and “King of Kings.”

Finally, it’s Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland” (July 28), with Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter’s Queen of Hearts and Mia Wasikowska – so terrific with Michael Fassbender in the recent, deeply felt “Jane Eyre” – as the titular heroine.

The movies have been chosen by film editor Andy Keir (“True Blood,” “Beloved”).

The museum’s Sculpture Garden will open at 8:30pm for picnicking, with all films beginning at 9pm. Each screening is $12 for members and $15 for non-members, and includes complimentary gourmet popcorn.. In the event of rain, movies will be shown the following evening.

The films complement “Double Solitaire: The Surreal Worlds of Kay Sage and Yves Tanguy” (through Sept. 18), for which the museum received an $80,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Sage and Tanguy were married for 15 years until his death in 1955, sharing a studio at their home in Woodbury, Conn., where they spoke only French. She was younger and he more established. But they both knew how to serve and volley artistically, and the exhibit considers the extent to which they influenced each other and went their separate artistic ways. Surely, his “The Hunted Sky” (1951) and her “Tomorrow Is Never” (1955) both chart the quintessentially bleak terrain of Surrealism. But Tanguy’s bulbous mutant figures seem to have more in common with Dali’s while Sage’s blank canvases and empty easels – she brought a lot of geometric shapes to her work – form a city of window-less, people-less skyscrapers.

The Katonah Museum of Art is at 134 Jay Street/Route 22 in Katonah. For more information, please call (914) 232-9555, ext. 0 or visit katonahmuseum.org