The lovers of secret teachings have always known that time itself yearns toward a sabbath, a thousand-year hush, the veil of rest. Not a sleep, but a settling. Not an erasure of the world, but its ...

Before Salome danced for the head of the Baptist, it seems the goddess Ishtar achieved entrance to the Underworld by dancing at each of the seven gates of Hell. Dropping a veil each time, she entered ...

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 ...

TIFF: The filmmaker reunites with his “Chloe” star for an opaque drama about the slippage between art and life. Near the climax of Richard Strauss’ opera “Salome,” the title character performs the ...

This color film reprises the female impersonator Adrian's nightclub act of the same name: "'Salome and the Dance of the Seven Veils' introduced the Club 82's new season to New Yorkers, in 1958. It was ...

Amanda Seyfried stars as a troubled stage director in Atom Egoyan’s latest film. In “Seven Veils,” Amanda Seyfried puts her wide, unblinking eyes to good use as a woman staring at the present and ...