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Directed by DAMIANO DAMIANI Screenplay by DAMIANO DAMIANl, FABRIZIO ONOFRI and AUDREY NOHRA...
...herself in limbo, on her way to damnation. She talks Lucifer's regional vice president (John Clemens) into giving her a chance to wallow in lust be fore being whisked off to her fate. The film is all about her wallowing, rendered in vivid detail by Director Gerard Damiano, the man responsible for pornography's biggest-gross film, Deep Throat. Having titillated curious audiences and outraged the courts with his previous effort, Damiano has now decided to teach a moral lesson, a touching presumption. What his sermonette comes down to is that the wages...
Brother Sun, Sister Moon covers only a short period of the saint's life; his return from the war between Assisi and the rival town of Perugia, his subsequent illness and conversion, the rebuilding of the ruined church of San Damiano, and his trip to Rome to seek advice from Pope Innocent III. Given this limited time-span and the painstaking efforts Zeffirelli makes to focus on the reasons for Francis's conduct, he explains astonishingly little of what was happening in twelfth-century Italy, both according to historical fact and to his own fiction. The war could...
Through lush summers and harsh winters, Francis and his group of friends build their "people's church" of San Damiano, under the eyes of a primitive Christ-figure that adorns one of its walls. The "cream of the city's youth" desert the town to follow the companion with whom they once warred and whored, towards a life of charity and chastity...
...Empty Canvas is one of those "international" movie projects that appears to have been dreamed up by its principals (during a transatlantic jet flight?) in a spirit of reckless unity. Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia and directed by Italy's Damiano Damiani, the film stars the U.S.'s durable Bette Davis, Germany's Horst Buchholz and Belgium's Catherine Spaak. It is chiefly notable for the fun of watching Davis breast the New Wave plot with bitchy authority...