#footprints on the moon

[science70]

Klaus Kinski as Prof. Blackmann, Le orme (aka Footprints on the Moon) (Italy, 1975 dir: Luigi Bazzoni).

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Footprints on the Moon (1975) L'Orme Cinemarte S.r.l. Dir. Luigi Bazzoni

Klaus Kinski as Professor Blackmann

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Footprints on the Moon (1975)

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[ourlittlesister2015]

Footprints on the Moon [Le Orme], (1975), dir. Luigi Bazzoni and Mario Fanelli

[samsmyth]

L’ORME (aka FOOTPRINTS aka FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON)

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Movie Review | Footprints on the Moon (Bazzoni, 1975)

This is a movie I’d made a mental note to see years ago when I’d come across some particularly striking screencaps. Seeing it now on Severin’s Blu-ray release, it certainly lived up to that impression, looking even more stunning than I’d anticipated. I suppose it wouldn’t have been too great a surprise had I looked up the credits beforehand, as we get none other than legendary cinematographer Vittorio Storaro on DP duty, going all out with the colours and making the most of the Turkish locations in which most of the movie is set. Now, I’d slotted in this movie this month as I’d been itching to watch more giallo, but this is probably on the fringe of the genre furthest from overt horror, as if director Luigi Bazzoni (who previously collaborated with Storaro on the similarly gorgeous Fifth Cord) wanted to strip away most of the violence and purify the genre into a psychological study. So it is perhaps not ideal Spooky Season viewing outside of some nightmare (or flashback?) sequences and some late bloodletting, although the results feel like a cross between the work of two other notable directors, one of whom has dabbled in more Spooky Season fare than the other.

On the less spooky side, the way this frames a sense of psychological unmooring and detachment against unfeeling surroundings brings to mind the films of Michelangelo Antonioni. In particular, the earlier sections in Rome with the gleaming modern buildings have some of the same science fiction quality of Red Desert and L’Eclisse. (I watched the Italian cut, which on top of classing things up probably invited this comparison further. Perhaps the American cut with its English audio would make it play closer to the rest of the genre.) On the more spooky side, the sense of narrative drift and the appreciative exoticism with which this views its Turkish locations brings to mind such qualities common in Jess Franco’s work. The relationship between the psyche and one’s surroundings, particularly in terms of architecture and décor, is a common theme in giallo, but what I think makes this closer to the work of those two directors than to the rest of the genre is that I find that most giallo externalizes psychological fracturing, whereas this movie and those other directors almost clamp it down. In one you’re pushed to scream, in the other you’re shushed into silence.

If anything, I wished this almost worked on the level of pure drift, like an ouroboros of mood, unreconciled clues and psychological unease, and I find the denouement a little unsatisfying, if only because it puts and end to the proceedings. But I can see myself warming up to this further in the future, with more time to drift along with the movie.

[cinemajunkie70]

A very happy birthday to Florinda Bolkan!

[candont]

Footprints On The Moon

I know it's only the second week of January but so far this is my discovery of the year,

Despite being a 70s Italian mystery/thriller playing with themes of madness and identity, which features a murder using scissors and the creepy red headed girl from Deep Red this is less giallo and more a delightful slice of weird the fuckness. In many ways it reminds me of Liquid Sky.

Set up is that pill-popping Alice goes in search of a few amnesia-ed missing days to an island where she may or may not have been before where she may or may not have been someone called Nicole all while being haunted by a dream of an astronaut intentionally abandoned on the moon which may or may not be from a movie she may or may not have seen as a child.

[thedevilsoftruth]

Guys, please hear me out on cowboy Marc Spector... please

Like... save a horse, ride a cowboy.

" YEEEEHAW. Go horsey, go!! "

[gotankgo]

«"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

On this day 55 years ago, American astronauts Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin and Neil Armstrong became the first people ever to walk on the moon.

The astronauts took thousands of photographs taken during the expedition. This close-up of one of Aldrin’s footprints on the moon’s surface helped scientists and others better understand the material character of the terrain.

📸 NASA. "View of Astronaut Footprint in Lunar Soil.” July 20, 1969. The New York Times Collection. © 2024 NASA»

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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)

[ourlittlesister2015]

Footprints on the Moon [Le Orme] (1975), dir. Luigi Bazzoni and Mario Fanelli

[supermaks]

i appreciate seb speaking up in ~general~ but he’s annoying me lately with the “fe isn’t actually helpful” talk when fe has actually lead to companies developing electric cars for consumers and better batteries. idk he says the most obvious shit i’m like….. girl bffr we’ve BEEN talking about this

Seb suffers from that white celeb disease when they get comfortable and bored enough to start sniffing around causes they can lend their name to. Most of the time its environmentalism. Im not saying it isnt genuine but it has nothing to do wid expertise or credibility within the field. His website literally advertises the one time he picked trash in silverstone as 'sustainability' lets nawt point fingers at other initiatives for not 'actually doing anything'

[neptuniant]

guys i finished physical 100 and. i just want to say. yun sungbin.

[cypressmoons]

HES SO BEAUTIFUL IM SHAKING