Footprints on the Moon (Le orme)

What a haunting film that has so many lingering visuals that just stick as we unlock Alice's life as she slowly goes down the looking glass. Honestly beautifully shot with a solid score that also sharply cuts out and let's us ruminate in our characters mind to what is…

pirateneckbeard

I remember seeing the poster here for a while now—the main reason why I added this film to my list in the first place, if I remember correctly—and so I was truly disappointed when I came here and realized this was the movie I was watching (I added it to my queue months ago…

Rafael "Mister Movie" Jovine

this has been hiding for years on a shitty mill creek 50-pack next to gunk like HORROR HIGH & i knew it had a good rep but nothing prepared me for actually watching it

pd187

Shudder calls this the most criminally underseen giallo of the 70’s and I’m inclined to agree because, in spite of Italian horror being my favorite thing in the world, I somehow managed to barely even hear of this until fairly recently and even then I put it off til now. Go…

Tony the Terror

Less of a Giallo and more of a slow burning mystery, Footprints on the Moon draws its intrigue from the idea of amnesia and tells the story of a translator (a very good Florinda Bolkan) who has nightmares about Klaus Kinski conducting experiments on the moon. Eventually she…

Slig001

The Years of Lead – Book Out Now! Primordial paranoia & persecution // Translating the return of the repressed Alice Campos is losing time. She went to sleep on Monday and woke up on Thursday, and all she can remember in between is a strange dream about men on the…

ScreeningNotes

Comes close to being great, but never quite gets there for me. Storaro’s cinematography is, as always, phenomenal—I cannot think of a DP who uses symmetry in framing better than him. Maybe it’s because I have seen some of these ideas executed better, more intensely and with…

Jerry

To try and fully explain this movie would be an injustice. You must bath in its sepia blue moon light. Alice Cespi (Florinda Bolkan) is an Italian translator who is haunted by past trauma. Specifically, a film she watched as a child called Footprints on the Moon, about an…

Gentry Austin

Memory plots can be difficult to render effectively, knowing what to reveal to the audience and what not to, making the blurring or vacant spots in memory cinematic, or simply finding new ground in tired old tropes like amnesia. Even the most heralded depictions tend to…

Sally Jane Black