Keanu Reeves & River Phoenix, 1991

So, a totem. It's a small object, potentially heavy, something you can have on you all the time. It has to be unique, like - this is a loaded die. Only I know the balance and weight of this particular loaded die. That way when you look at your totem, you know beyond a doubt you're not in someone else's dream.

JOSEPH GORDON-LEVITT as ARTHUR INCEPTION│2010

RIVER PHOENIX

photographed by Tony Palmieri in 1990.

KEANU REEVES AND RIVER PHOENIX 

By Bruce Weber 1991

"...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

Joe Wright on the handflex™: "I never know where to put a camera when I'm shooting carriages pulling away 'cause there's no emotion to drive it. But there's the emotion."

PRIDE & PREJUDICE (2005) dir. Joe Wright

the art of touch in Crash (1996), dir. David Cronenberg.

Tumblr ruined the quality. 😭😭😭😭

But he’s so fine…

cash 1996 fancam for the harlots

“they bury the dead so quickly. they should leave them lying around for months” crash (1996), dir. david cronenberg

RIVER PHOENIX As Mike Waters in

My Own Private Idaho (1991) dr:  Gus Van Sant