THRU Magazine Archive
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. […]
So, you’re at a party on a beautiful spring evening. The sun is setting, casting lovely muted light and you’re caught up in conversation with an exciting stranger. Initially, you feel enthralled by their enthusiasm with this topic; they have so many fun and insightful things to say… But, you start to realize they’re just […]
John and Faith Hubley are possibly the best-kept secret in town. Actually, as commercial animators they produced a living, and one of the most iconic bits in advertising. It is touching and creative enough that even Don Draper would be proud to produce it. My love for older things might be the illusion that cultural […]