THRU Magazine Archive
Abdel Basset Sarout joined the Syrian resistance against the regime of Bashar al-Assad through public appearance at protest rallies in Homs, June 2011, when military crackdowns on public demonstrations became increasingly violent. He became the icon of the resitance in Homs, where he lived and worked as a goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team […]
I once owned a VHS copy of Fantastic Planet that had been abandoned in the basement of an old Portland home, cluttered with signs of musician life. There is something very appealing about this film to musicians, myself included. We tend to seek unique visual experience in line with our musical pallet as well as […]
Wes Anderson is not predictable but he is consistent. You can identify any film of his if you have seen at least Rushmore or The Royal Tenenbaums. But that is not a flaw, it is vision, it is clarity by voice. The voice is young and you can hear it cracking in his mid-career films. Not […]
Mamele & Cupcakes at the 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival Two films and seventy-five years can make for two experiences a world apart from each other. I watched two films back to back at Whitsell Auditorium on Sunday as part of the 22nd Portland Jewish Film Festival presented by NWFC and the Institute for Judaic […]
As a kind of soft opening to the Improvisation Summit of Portland in 2014, Creative Music Guild partnered with Northwest Film Center to screen a film called, The Reach of Resonance. Although not many ideas are particularly new and few techniques presented there are truly groundbreaking in contemporary art, I found extraordinary value to it. […]