Oscar Wilde originally wrote Salome in French because he predicted it would be quickly banned in Victorian-era England. (He was correct.) Wilde revised an English translation, but he never saw his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Director Atom Egoyan’s Seven Veils has such a convoluted inspiration to it, and such deeply metaphorical and literal ties to its own filmmaker’s history, that it’s difficult to do its meta-layers ...

Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week is built around this year’s Canadian Opera Company production of Richard Strauss’s ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atom Egoyan’s “Seven Veils,” which had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival this week is built around ...