In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director ...

Was Amanda Seyfried surprised when the offer came to star in “Seven Veils,” a movie about the Biblical teen temptress Salome who had John the Baptist beheaded — and she was not going to be doing the ...

Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan scored a fair-sized sensation with his 1996 Canadian Opera Company production of the Richard Strauss opera “Salome” — the one about the stepdaughter of the depraved King ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Yet somehow, through all these layers, a more or less cohesive narrative manages to coalesce, fed in dribs and drabs ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...

A few years ago, it was reported that one of the world’s most influential faces in music, Lydia Tár — a pupil of the great composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein — faced a particularly troubling ...

In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and unable to see anything but the past. The actress plays Jeanine, a theater director ...