RIVER PHOENIX AS DANNY PAGE RUNNING ON EMPTY, 1988

river phoenix for peta

Crash (1996) dir. David Cronenberg

River Phoenix as Mikey Waters - My Own Private Idaho, 1991

RIVER PHOENIX

photographed by Tony Palmieri in 1990.

"...the interaction between an anonymous individual and his car, the transits of his body across the polished cellulose panels and vinyl seating, his face silhouetted against the instrument dials.

"Caring for him, I wanted to stroke his scarred thighs and abdomen, offering him the automobile injuries carried by my own body in place of those imaginary wounds he wished upon the actress." -J.G. Ballard, Crash

JAMES SPADER as James Ballard CRASH (1996), dir. David Cronenberg

DERMOT MULRONEY as KYLE DAVIDSON, RIVER PHOENIX as JAMES WRIGHT, SANDRA BULLOCK as LINDA LUE LINDEN, and SAMANTHA MATHIS as MIRANDA PRESLEY in The Thing Called Love (1993)

ELIAS KOTEAS as Vaughan CRASH (1996) dir. David Cronenberg