Review Dali off the cuff is outrageous and the exceedingly stylish film moves like an express train. --Nance Banks Smith, The GuardainA truly terrific film. --Andy WarholDali in New York, made in 1965 by Arden s close associate, Jack Bond, features her in yet another role, that of interviewer. It follows the renowned surrealist artist and Jane Arden around the streets, galleries, hotels and concourses of New York in the week before the opening of the major Dali exhibition at the Hartford Gallery of Modern Art at the end of 1965. They are invariably accompanied by a team of Dali s hangers-on or slaves as they are later controversially branded and, at times, bizarrely, by an ocelot on a lead. It is, without doubt, one of the most compelling conversations ever filmed, because, far from indulging his exhibitionist antics - as J.G. Ballard has dubbed Dali s public behaviour - as everyone else around the artist seems to be doing, Arden makes an heroic attempt to engage him in a profound, searching and often philosophical discussion of his work and ideas. When this eventually leads to her dismissal from his presence, Bond himself is seen gamely continuing with the same tack. The overall result is an art documentary like no other. --Sean Kaye-Smith, Vertigo Magazine
