In 1945, Alfred Hitchcock hired Salvador Dalí to design the dream sequences for Spellbound, a psychological thriller starring Ingrid Bergman and Gregory Peck. His monumental painted backdrops—a gambling house, a rooftop, a rocky cliffside—are among the most famous expressions of Surrealism in cinema. The gambling house painting, 17 by 35 feet and full of staring eyes, is now on view in Mexico City at the Palacio de la Autonomía. Also part of the show are 80 original works from the Dalí Universe collection—melting clocks, the Mae West Lips Sofa, sculptures, drawings, and lithographs. Dalí reportedly claimed that Mexico was almost more surreal than his own paintings, though he never actually visited the country. —Elena Clavarino