THRU Magazine Archive
Balikbayan #1 Memories of Overdevelopment Redux III screens on Friday, May 1st at 7 PM at the Whitsell Auditorium. Stories told through a logic of unrestrained chaos are often maddening and seemingly unnecessary experiences. Nothing alienates an audience further than the feeling that an artist is splashing paint on a wall; allowing “the powers that be,” […]
Cinema Project Presents “Horrorism For Beginners”: Select Films by Berlin-Based Filmmakers, Anja Dornieden and Juan David Gonzalez, a.k.a. OJOBOCA Last night, I thought I would have wild, fantastically visual dreams. The kind that you instantly recall upon waking up for the vivid hallucinatory quality they had; images from childhood, of yourself, imposed on textured recollections […]
I knew there was going to be trouble within the first 10 minutes of Koinonia, an independent film directed by Andrew Finnigan and premiering at the Northwest Film Center March 19th. Koinonia begins well with delicate and ethereal imagery of lush, green forests, serene river streams, and abstract imagery of a bearded man and a […]
No matter the context, the first feature from any director is always interesting. Sometimes their debut manages to be one of their best. Richard Linklater’s Slacker comes to mind as a feature that is one of his most powerful; it is simple, emotionally profound and adventurous in its execution. There is also the debut that falls short of […]
Immediately after my initial encounter with Inherent Vice, the seventh film by widely celebrated auteur Paul Thomas Anderson, the very first sentence I typed for this article was: Paul Thomas Anderson has finally made a bad movie. However, something compelled me to watch it for a second time. Whether this decision to see it again […]