Robert Benesh

Robert Benesh

perfect purity is possible
if you turn your life into a line of poetry
written with a splash of blood

Favorite films

  • Woman in the Dunes
  • Battle Royale
  • The Fifth Element
  • 28 Days Later

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  • Loki

    ★★★★½

  • Prisoners of the Ghostland

    ★★★★

  • Silver Bullet

    ★★★½

  • Casino Royale

    ★★★½

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  • Loki

    Loki

    ★★★★½

    I think this is the best thing to come out of the MCU

  • Prisoners of the Ghostland

    Prisoners of the Ghostland

    ★★★★

    A post-apocalyptic, neo-samurai western fever dream with elements of escape from LA, the holy mountain, and mad max from the greatest mind in film today. It's certainly not his finest film - worse than I thought when it was announced, but much better than what I expected based on the reviews.

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  • Happy Machine

    Happy Machine

    ★★★★

    We Are One Film Festival: Day Six

    I haven't seen an analysis of this on Letterboxd, so I'm going to give it a shot.

    At the beginning of the film, we see the gauge fall to zero, symbolizing that the energy of a former life is being utilized to give life to this baby. The baby quickly realizes that the world of an infant in the care of its parent is temporal one that can never last forever. It is…

  • Antiporno

    Antiporno

    ★★★★

    First, a little background. In the early 1970's, Nikkatsu decided to stop focusing on action films and shift into the pinku film market (think softcore pornography with a heavy focus on story). These films, called Roman Porno (which has been said to originate both from 'romantic' and 'Roman') were massively successful and gave directors artistic freedom as long as they had four or more nude/sex scenes per hour.

    In the West, we might hear 'softcore porn series' and think these…