1970 - 1993

the life of river phoenix. with this blog and with your reblogs, let us try to keep him alive. cause art never dies. :) feel free to ask me stuff, and also feel free to tell me storys or send me pictures, videos, links. you can also talk about other stuff with me. i'm grateful for everything and so is every other fan.

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80s photograph of Joaquin and River Phoenix.

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babies 🖤

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River Phoenix as Brian Ellsworth in TV Movie ‘Backwards: The Riddle of Dyslexia,’ 1984

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My Own Private Idaho (1991) dir. Gus Van Sant

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River Phoenix in My Own Private Idaho dir. Gus Van Sant (1991)

Joaquin Phoenix in Her dir. Spike Jonze (2013)

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY RIVER PHOENIX 🖤 Over this past year, through the process of releasing some of River’s music and embarking on a solo record, I realized that in order to truly find my own voice, I had to include his. “Time Gone” was released Valentine’s Day as a kind of time capsule love letter to River. From there the floodgates opened. RIVER will be released Halloween 2019. This first single “Immolate” is for all of us. 

— Rain via Instagram

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Stand by Me is being released in 4K Blu-ray on August 27th (4 days after River’s birthday!) w/ Never-Before-Seen Deleted and Alternate Scenes

I’ll post the new scenes here or on my YouTube (if I don’t get copyright striked) so everyone can see them

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ohhhhh look what I’m watching, ending the weekend with Stand by me 😊

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On set, Little Nikita - Poitier, d. Benjamin, Phoenix (1987)

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Running on Empty

1988. Drama

By Sidney Lumet

Starring: Christine Lahti, Judd Hirsch, River Phoenix, Martha Plimpton, Jonas Abry, L.M. Kit Carson, Steven Hill, Augusta Dabney

Country: United States

Language: English

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River Phoenix with Kevin Kline, Louise Fletcher, Joaquin Phoenix and Jamie Lee Curtis at “Parenthood” Los Angeles Premiere - July 31, 1989

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“I would like to see more blacks in leading men’s roles, to project a more realistic picture of who we are as a people” [1988] “I want to see more Spike Lees. I want to see more women, especially, up there" [1991] - River Phoenix

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“He sent a very sweet letter and a present after Larry [Olivier, her husband] died. It was a tuning fork, and the message said, ‘Tune into life.’” — Joan Plowright

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River Phoenix would be an anomaly anywhere, let alone show business. The Oregon-born actor was named after the river of life in Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha, and spent his childhood wandering Central America with his parents, then missionaries for an organization called The Children of God. They raised an incurable idealist. 

“One thing I’d like to do when I have the money,” says the 19-year-old, “is to buy thousands of acres of Brazilian rain forest and make a national park, so no one can bulldoze it to put a McDonald’s on them. I guess people find security in a Big Mac, but that’s our oxygen!”

The star of Stand By Me, The Mosquito Coast, Running on Empty and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is cast in I Love You to Death as a pizza maker who joins fellow cooks William Hurt and Keanu Reeves in staging attempts on the life of pizzeria owner Kevin Kline, on behalf of Kline’s jealous wife Tracey Ullman. While the picture sounds like a bizarre black comedy, Phoenix sees it as having an “emotional, even moral” resonance.

Phoenix’s strong moral point of view can be explained by his “early childhood, growing up around people that were really humble, with a lifestyle that called for a lot of faith, without money…You couldn’t be an asshole.”

“At one point,” he adds, “I might decide to give up all material possessions…Just move out to the jungle someplace and live like an ape-man for a while.”

— River of Dreams, Movieline magazine, Dec. 1989 by Dan Yakir.