Charles in charge

Baton Rouge Gallery’s annual Movies & Music on the Lawn series, subtitled Slapstickers this year, kicked off last month with Buster Keaton’s 1924 classic Sherlock Jr., a reality-bending trip that has inspired head-scratchers galore, from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil to Christopher Nolan’s recent blockbuster Inception.

This month, the Gallery continues its outdoor series inspired by the slapstick comedians of yore by inviting groove masters Righteous Buddha to provide a live soundtrack to another classic of silent cinema: The Kid. Starring Charlie Chaplin in his iconic character “The Tramp,” no other film of Chaplin’s is as dynamic in its laughs and its tragedies as this one, and every up and down is conveyed in memorable images alone. The story follows Chaplin as he takes in an orphaned infant and raises him the best he can in a flophouse before miraculously reuniting the child with his regretful mother. The Kid screens June 25 at 8 p.m. Admission is free for Gallery members and $5 for non-members. Free popcorn. For a complete line-up of Movies & Music on the Lawn screenings visit batonrougegallery.org.