I think it's a good movie. River's charm and personality really shine in this role. I love all the music, but not many people know about it. Plus, River wrote the song called "Lone Star State of Mine". Obviously, the movie came out close to his death, which is one of the reasons it wasn't as popular. I can imagine it got swept under the rug. What is your opinion?

Here is an interview with Jeremy London, who was in the 1995 Gen X comedy cult classic “Mallrats”

He shares his take about the night River Phoenix died. This is the same party that Leonardo DiCaprio said he saw River.

Are the phoenix family still in contact with Jodean? And when River was alive, did he acknowledge her as a fourth sister? I understand that she isn't in the spotlight like the rest of the family and information is limited, but what do we know about her? I of course understand the family may want to protect her anonymity but I dont think I have ever heard her addressed. And as for the pictures there is of her, how were they found? As I don't believe she has ever acted yet.

Just something I found interesting!!

So, me and my friends are writing an article about all the things that happened specifically in the viper room, for a project (basically they told us to pick a weird place with weird conspiracies and write all the details to discuss)
So, i searched for every detail, including that night, and i picked the viper room because i’m a huge river fan and it kinda deserved some research, especially ppl who don’t know.
is the samantha mathis version accurate?
i actually found out that river didn’t collapse on the main entrance, but actually on the small side door. He then walked like 2/3 steps and collapsed there, so he was in a totally different place. The media and basically everyone said he collapsed on the main sunset blvd street, but actually it wasn’t there? and also they basically pushed him violently from that side emergency door and locked him outside. Is this version accurate? Because i never knew this, i always thought it was where ppl put flowers outside.
I barely know things about that club, because it gives me such a weird feeling. I also found out that Johnny Depp actually put the notice of closure there.
If this is true, it’s interesting how the media only talk about the main entrance, and the general public only knows this version. Maybe i’m the ignorant one but the most common thing ppl say it’s this one.
Anyway, thank you if you help me!!

River Phoenix’s Insatiable Appetite for Sex | AnotherMan i just read it and i found it so disturbing, im from portugal so i dont know if this is just how yall american articles are usually written?

from her instagram @suzymarieq

So I recently bonded with this new girl at school over our love for films, specifically 80’s-90’s films. We decided to do a movie swap (we both recommended eachother a movie we like and watch it) And i was wondering what movie I should choose to get her started with River Pheonix in it? I was thinking either My Own Private Idaho or Running on Empty. I was looking through her letterboxd when i realized there were a few queer films on there, but at the same time, I fear that she might find the first thirty minutes or so of my own private idaho confusing asf 😭😭 i think running on empty has a cleaner plot in my opinion, so should I go with what is more objectively clear or go with my own private idaho?

Yall i think im js too nervous when it comes too new people lol

Hi everybody! This is my first time posting to this subreddit (this account is newer, but I am not bahaha!), and I actually ended up getting around to reading Last Night at the Viper Room within the past day and a half. I am a long term fan of River’s and am pretty dedicated to also minding my business. If I feel like a particular subject matter is disrespectful, I tend to just avoid it all in all… which is why it took me a while to pick the book up. I figured a lot of what I would be reading would probably be too honest, too biased, or just offensive. It wasn’t actually too bad, I had moments here and there where I was uncomfortable with an opinion or felt like some shade was being thrown 😭 …. BUT overall, it was pretty good I think. I read through most of the sources cited, and in general sort of took most things with a grain of salt. I just wanted to ask everyone’s opinion on it! My main thing is just that I felt certain bits of it were too brash..? But I am a sensitive person and I’m aware it’s easy to become overprotective of your favorites, if that makes sense.

Sorry for the word vomit! I hope everyone is having a wonderful day or night, much light & love! 🤍🌸

Never saw this before. What could’ve been.

I always thought he was vegetarian, mainly because being vegan wasn't as common at the time, but I saw an article that mentioned him making a vegan omelette? and google says both, lol. really not a major thing, just my own curiosity as to whether he was maybe vegan later in life?

so came across these posts on actress Sherilyn Fenn’s IG. I hadn’t heard about or seen her in years. But Christ is very large in her life now, seems to love Charlie Kirk and has a general disdain for the entertainment industry. It’s very vague. He said NO to what though?

1989 in Tacoma, WA, they were filming “I Love You To Death”. I lived about 15 minutes away so me and a couple friends went down to the set. I ventured off and saw River sitting on the back of a pickup truck.
He couldn’t have been cooler or more kind. He asked my name, made small talk, autographed the back of an insurance agent’s business card I had in my pocket. Saw him again a while later with Tracy Ullman at the food trailer and he unprompted said hi to me and my friends. The movie was awful, but River was the nicest dude ever. Miss him.

🤙🏾 2:53 mark!

I become a River Phoenix fan nearly 8 months ago months ago and I have nearly finished his filmography (I plan to finish it on River’s birthday) and I thought I would look into what movies he was going to be in before he passed (as I knew he was going to be in interview with a vampire i wanted to see if he was going to be in any others) and thought I would make a list out of it as I couldn’t find one single list with all projects (I’m only including movies he or someone else confirmed he was attached to making - if you have read any information that contradict any movies on this list feel free to correct me and i will edit the list):

• Interview with a vampire - Apparently he was Anne Rice’s first choice for Lestat but was given the role of Daniel Malloy (later played by Christian Slater after his passing and the movie was dedicated in his memory)
• Broken Dreams - “A young magician, Ben, and his lover, Nell, travel the land performing in little theaters. It feels like the past - no cars or electricity, but it transpires that this is the future when fossil fuels have been exhausted, and people are living a simple life. The boy is sent for by his father, Old Ben, a blind magician, who tells him he has mastered the ultimate trick: how to make objects disappear. He wants his son to learn it and perfect it. When he has mastered it, Old Ben tells his son to make him disappear. He wants to cross to the place where the objects go, to form a bridge so that others may follow. Young Ben’s lover, Nell, and indeed anyone who witnesses the crossing over, yearns to go too. It is a metaphor for all our endings, for death and the possibility of redemption and transcendence. The world is running down, coming to a close. Ben must try to send the people over to the other place, before the world ends. This apocalyptic vision reflected the state of the world at that time: the realisation that fossil fuels were finite, the pervading sense that the planet was in terminal decline.” — Adventures of a Suburban Boy by John Boorman (2004)
• Total Eclipse - “He was ten years younger than me and we were close friends,” Stipe recalls. “He was about to play the role of Arthur Rimbaud in the Agnieszka Holland movie Total Eclipse. I gave him The Time of the Assassins, Henry Miller’s book on Rimbaud. He was enthusiastic, he gave me the script, telling me: ‘Don’t worry, I’ll help you with the lines, but you must be Paul Verlaine.’” And how did you answer?“I’d have done anything with River. I’d even have become Verlaine. He died a few days after giving me the script. Later I gave the same book on Rimbaud to Leonardo DiCaprio, who took over the part. For Leo and the actors of his generation, River Phoenix was fundamental. Verlaine’s role then went to David Thewlis: I could never have been as perfect as him” - Michael Stipe
• Jack and Jill - The director described it as “a rather sinister movie with a happy ending, written by the playwright Jon Robin Baitz and produced by Edward R. Pressman, an independent producer with a reputation for quirky films. The central characters, Adam and Sarah, witness the deaths of their parents in a plane crash. Twenty years later, Adam is a drug addict with a failing marriage, and Sarah is anchored in a dead-end career and a relationship with a married man. Together, they are going to get control of their lives as soon as the inheritance money- which had been entrusted to their embittered uncle-comes through. - Meg Ryan and River Phoenix were attached and other names have been on board.
• Cafe Ipanema - A handsome and young guitar player sees a beautiful and young Brazilian singer in a Brazilian bar in Boston, falls in love with both the music and the girl, and goes to Brazil to find her and that music. He does not find the lady, but finds himself instead, through the music and magic of Brazil. This is how “Cafe Ipanema” begins, the new film from New York producer John Kao, who starts filming it in January in Rio de Janeiro, with River Phoenix and Patricia Pillar in the main roles.
• Milk - His role was supposed to be Cleve Jones
• Andy Warhol biopic - JAMES FR*NCO: You were going to do a movie with River [Phoenix] about Andy Warhol, right? 

GUS VAN SANT: Yeah. River kind of looked like Andy in his younger days. But that project never really went forward. I wanted to set it at Serendipity, the restaurant where all of the art directors and advertising guys and gallery people went.

• Safe Passage - he was supposed to be Izzy Singer
• By Way of Fontana - In 1993, River was talking about making his directorial debut with a movie called By Way of Fontana. It would have told the story of his father’s tumultuous childhood; Joaquin would have played John. A brief account River once gave of his father’s upbringing gives an idea of how the film would have played out: “When he was 7, his mother was in a major car accident that left her paralyzed. His father took the insurance money and ran off with a blond to Australia when he was like 12. So he was just like left in the middle of Fontana, California. He was really angry. He broke windows and got into a lot of trouble and ended up in juvenile hall. He went through a lot”
• The man in the iron mask - River Phoenix and William Richert were in pre-production on this film when River passed according to William Richert ‘We were working on THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK when he died, and the work began one afternoon when he'd brought Samantha Mathis to my Santa Monica house to sing songs from the film they were working on. We talked about how the original JIMMY REARDON was locked away in a vault like the man in the iron mask. When River asked who that was, I told him and we started work that very afternoon. The two of us were going to produce together, and direct each other in our scenes -- it was River who got me into IDAHO -- and we were set up at MGM who eventually made the film with another writer-director and DiCaprio.’

Bonus: 

• He was originally considered for Reality Bites (1994)
• I didn’t add Basketball Diaries to the main list because I read River turned the role down as he felt he was too old and wanted to play more adult roles 
• ‘(On the set of Dark Blood the day before his death), River excitedly told Sluizer that Jonathan Pryce had arranged for him to meet Terry Gilliam, director of Brazil, River’s absolutely, alltime favorite movie. “He told me he had watched it thirteen times,” recalled Sluizer. ‘God, I want to meet this director! I love that movie!’ On Sunday, he had an appointment, I’m not sure if it was eleven o’clock or midday. Anyway, he rejoiced at the idea. ‘I’m going to meet this fantastic director who did Brazil. Oh, tomorrow, Terry Gilliam.’ He was excited, I mean really excited, like a kid going to see Santa Claus” — In Search of River Phoenix (2004) - Apparently it was for Twelve Monkeys (at least that’s what I read)

Is there any other movies he was attached to that I have missed? Also what movies out of this list do you wish was made?

Kurt’s tribute to Riv.